After a very successful series, some of the Old Hands found time to sit down and 'do lunch'. So you can put a face to a name to a programme; from left to right, Angela, Rachel, myself, Anne, Lesley C and Ian. Thanks again, all the New Hands programmes are still available for download and we will be back very soon. Stay tuned !
We are receiving lots of encouraging emails about the current series of 'New Hands' - a Feisty Production. You can listen again to these programmes on the BBC Radio Scotland site, at the Feisty download site or even subscribe at iTunes. Just go the New Hands website to get all these facilities at the click of a mouse button. Enjoy and please feel free to comment - your feedback is important.
In the third episode of New Hands, Abdullah Khan has had an idea that will take computer games into the next generation - but he has hit a brick wall and needs a cool two million pounds to get over it.
New Hands features owners of new businesses who've hit problems they can't solve. Each week Lesley Campbell diagnoses the real challenge facing each new hand and introduces then to an experienced entrepreneur or old hand
This week does Ian Ritchie have the spare dosh or a better idea ?
Check out the New Hands website for more details and listen in every Sunday at 11.05am on BBC Radio Scotland.
The business idea of Helen McPhee from Perthshire has been inspired by her home – quite literally. She and her mother foster young people from difficult backgrounds, her dad is an outdoors enthusiast and they all live in Highland Perthshire. She’s got everything on the doorstep to set up her wilderness therapy business - including a killer business plan - but she won’t take that final step. In conversation with Lesley, it appears that she has a very supportive mother who might, Lesley thinks, be standing just a little bit too close. When Helen finally reveals her paralysing fear of failure, Lesley takes her to meet high-profile entrepreneur Bill Fleming, the Smiley’s man who made a fortune, went spectacularly bust – then made a second fortune. Helen sets off to Utah to visit a company similar to hers - when she gets back, is she ready to pitch for business, or will she find another reason to delay the inevitable?
If anyone wanted to know why Lesley Campbell and I were featured in the 'New Hands' picture; there is a simple explanation. Lesley is the presenter and I am the producer. My company, Feisty Productions is producing this series for BBC Radio Scotland. And yes, it is just as much work behind the mike as it is in front, I think.
'New Hands' with Lesley Campbell is a Feisty Production and it did debut on the wireless at 11.05am Sunday 17 February ! It is a six part series and will be available as a listen again both on the BBC website and on its own website over at www.newhands.co.uk .
The first programme charts the progress of Cava, a Glasgow based promotions business.
