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An Interview with Patrick Harvie MSP

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Show Notes

We are delighted that Patrick Harvie, long-serving Scottish Greens MSP and former Co-Leader of the party joined Stuart Cosgrove on this edition of Talk Media. They talked about a range of fascinating subjects and this is the only place that you'll find out what Patrick and Lorna Slater did after they stormed out of Bute House on that fateful day when their relationship with Humza Yousaf and the SNP fell apart.

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