We have tried to avoid the already sold-out and high-profile to give you an alternative and achievable schedule. FICTION’S MASTER...

Alan Bissett – (More) Moira Monologues –  Scottish Storytelling Centre After two sold-out Edinburgh Fringe runs, straight-talking single...

Here are a few selected highlights to give you something to think about, but you can peruse the full programme at your leisure here. They...

Our previous interviews have been with David Graham Scott, whose film The End Of The Game begins in Caithness and then moves to South...

Our first film review of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival is of David Graham Scott’s The End Of The Game. And what a place to start....

Hope Dickson Leach’s excellent The Levelling is at the GFT from the 12th – 18th May. Below is an interview with the director from earlier...

It is also as much about the director himself and his growing relationship with his leading man and his beliefs, and how they appear to...

Glasgow Film Festival was created specifically to offer discerning film-fans shelter from the storm. Running from 15th – 26th February,...

“January…let us endure this evil month”, to paraphrase the French writer Colette. You may think this overly dramatic, but you know what...

One of those questions you are asked to ponder every now and then is, “Who would you invite to your perfect dinner party”. Well, it looks...

Edinburgh International Book Festival. For 16 days Charlotte Square Gardens becomes an oasis of relative sanity and calm in a city gone...

For the latest podcast, Ali went to Edinburgh to meet writer Rebecca Monks in the very aptly named Circus Cafe to talk about her latest...

Dunbar CoastWord Festival. Starting in 2013 as Dunbar’s Wee Festival of Words, in just three years it has grown to be an arts festival...

Stepping into its second decade with well-earned confidence and style, Glasgow’s Aye Write! festival is a must for all book addicts and...

Glasgow Film Festival, surely a marriage made in heaven. Running from 17th – 28th February, it’s a festival which, geographical bias...

If it’s January, it must be Celtic Connections, and it’s the perfect way to blow away the new year blues, often with the blues. Arguably...

One of the finest festivals Scotland has to offer is the Dunoon Film Festival. Now in its third year, it remains small but perfectly...

While the Fringe rages all around it, this festival is an oasis of bookish bonhomie populated by like-minded folk, all obsessed with the...

This podcast is the result of what turned out to be a memorable day. New Lanark is the village built by enlightened cotton mill owner...

The latest podcast is yet a further celebration of all things Stevenson on the day of his birth, as if that were needed. By now I hope...