Podcasts: music

Each month, Romie Singh brings us the voices of people making the news in the Replay section of Spotlight Audio. This week on the podcast, the topic is the Amazon rainforest — and British rock musician Sting!

Australian Tom Barnes, an audio engineer, first sings part of a song he wrote, called “Sweet Nothings”, and then tells us about his music. “Sweet nothings”, by the way, are compliments you whisper to a lover.

What do you think of as typically Scottish? Did I hear you say bagpipes
— a musical instrument made of a number of pipes and a bag? Dagmar Taylor from Aberdeen reads “Mythical music” taken from the World View section of Spotlight magazine.