Posts by Scottish Field
Cancer scientist makes the impossible possible with a new cure
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Read MoreThe 18th century traditions that still live on in Scotland’s annual festivities
Carolyn Kirby shares how the spirit of the 18th century still lives on in Scotland’s seasonal festivities. Researching my new novel Ravenglass, I was fascinated to find the spirit of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s century alive in some of Scotland’s popular annual traditions. Ravenglass is a family mystery and a story of fluidity and forbidden love…
Read MoreGardening Column, Hamish Martin: ‘The beauty of ragwort lies in what she gives to every other being’
Just the mere mention of Ragwort usually results in a mass frenzied response, with people grabbing their pitch forks, spray packs and any implement they can use to cut, pull or worse still, poison the plant. It seems to receive the automatic response, ‘it’s poisonous and will kill horses’. But let’s get a few facts…
Read MoreSponsored Content | Scotland’s Hot Property Market: How Bridging Finance Helps You Compete
Sponsored Content | Scotland’s property market is no stranger to intense competition. From family homes in Edinburgh and Glasgow to remote Highland retreats and charming coastal cottages, the race to secure a dream home or investment property has become increasingly fierce. Whether you’re a first-time buyer looking to secure your ideal starter home or a…
Read MoreTravel Review, Knipoch Hotel: ‘A visit to Knipoch is like taking a deep, restorative breath of crisp, cleansing Highland air’
I knew that Shakespeare’s singular Scottish play, Macbeth, was set in Scotland, of course, but I had no idea that the murder that inspired it supposedly happened in the dining room of the Knipoch Hotel, a cosy little bolthole just three miles outside Oban, writes Eilidh Tuckett. No, this isn’t a Highland edition of Cluedo,…
Read MoreReview, Bill Bailey Thoughtifier: ‘Very diverse, very funny…very good’
Bill Bailey is very diverse, very funny, very good in Thoughtifier, says Alister Tenneb. ★★★★★ I have seen Bill Bailey perform on three previous occasions and was slightly anxious that I might suffer from a degree of weariness and regurgitation of previous material as I have with many comedians on repeat visits. But I am…
Read MoreFringe Reviews: Circa: Wolf, Garry Starr & Ascension
Circa: Wolf is an astonishing, feral acrobatic spectacle, says Frankie Reason. ★★★★ Performers snarl at one another from across the stage, negotiating, imitating one another’s movements, and the ‘pack’ repeatedly forms and disperses, repelling any lone wolves that attempt to penetrate the fold. The choreography is charged with an unexpected intimacy, raw and animalistic, bodies…
Read MoreReview, All the Devils Are Here: ‘The violence is graphic and the threat of more never lets up’
Barnaby Roper’s British thriller All the Devils are Here wastes no time in setting its mood: the violence is graphic and the threat of more never lets up, says Holly Roberts. What follows plays out like Reservoir Dogs relocated to Uncle Monty’s Penrith cottage: a gang of criminals, fresh from a bloody money heist, are…
Read MoreEdinburgh International Festival: Mary, Queen of Scots, Orpheus and Eurydice & Book of Mountains and Seas
Dramatic, intimate, and visually striking – Sophie Laplane and James Bonas’s brand new ballet, Mary Queen of Scots, is a gothic reimagining of the young queen’s life, says Frankie Reason. ★★★★★ The story unfolds through the fragmented recollections of an elderly Elizabeth, brought to life by Swedish dancer Charlotta Öfverholm, and the curtains open on…
Read MoreEdinburgh Fringe Reviews: Miriam Margolyes, Patrick Monahan & Lorna Rose Treen
Miriam Margolyes is as outrageous as ever in her one-woman show, Margolyes & Dickens: More Best Bits says Frankie Reason. ★★★★ She doesn’t feel the need to introduce herself – ‘if you don’t know who I am, what the f**k are you doing here?’ – and she’s entirely justified. The audience cheer their approval and…
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