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Whether over here or over there, what will the weather be in Edinburgh  or Rome.

New BBC Programme !!

Serialising the experiences of emigrants to Scotland from Italy (especially between  the 1940's-50's).

Looking for contacts, stories, photographs and video footage.

If you fit the bill, know someone who does or just want to find out more then  email Neil McDonald at the BBC.

This is a new section where I'd like to recount your tales or those of your family (preferably with a Scots-Italian slant) .

Email me with the details and I'll feature it right here !

It's a small world........

(submitted by Jules)

I'm actually English - but who's perfect? I have a small business selling holiday property around the Garfagnana area and was always amazed at the number of apparent Glaswegians in the area. This was an accent I easily recognised as I had a day job working for a large American company that was setting up a call centre at the end of Bath Street, Glasgow at the time. 

I realised it was a small world when I stopped for lunch in  Coreglia Antelminelli and met the young Scots-Italian lady who runs the hairdressers in the town. She told me that her father ran an Italian restaurant in Sauchiehall Street.

I told her that I frequently visited Glasgow and what I was doing. She then correctly identified the building I worked in and told me her father's restaurant was next door. I realised I'd had dinner in there the week before !!!

Follow this thrilling tale as Twelve-year-old Nunzio opens the boot of a wrecked Pontiac Bonneville in his father's scrapyard. But who will believe the tale of the horror that he has found there when all evidence is lost to the Paradise Salvage crusher?

The author John Fusco draws from his experiences as a child of Scots-Italian parentage living in small town America.

Amazon describes the book as:

'The story of innocence lost and justice found; of ambition frustrated and dreams realised; and of the love, and the difference, between generations of a family struggling to reconcile the traditions of the past with the demands of the present.'

Many thanks to John for getting in touch - if you are interested in finding out more then check out his website.

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