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Putting meat into A Play, A Pie and a Pint

Film & TV
The fifth production from BBC Scotland’s televising of A Play, A Pie & A Pint is Meat Market by Chris Gray. It is a comic...

Preserving the past and recording folk tales

Books | Reviews
The Wilson Tales Project aims to breathe new life into old tales with the help of local people from the Borders . They have come...

Wigtown Book Festival starts later this week

Books | Scotland
Scotland’s National Book Town is gearing up for a friendly invasion of book lovers when the annual Wigtown Book Festival gets underway this week. Authors...
Participant Anna MacDonald during the recording process

Young Gaelic singers to perform in Canada

Culture
Six young Gaelic singers from across Scotland have been invited to perform at the renowned Celtic music festival, Celtic Colours, in Canada next month. This...
(L-R) Claire Askew, Denise Mina, David Baldacci, Doug Johnstone, Manda Scott, Craig Robertson and Ambrose Parry (Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman) photographed at the torchlit procession at Stirling Castle for Bloody Scotland(Photo: Paul Reich)

Bloody Scotland was another crime success story

Books
The Bloody Scotland crime writing festival had an attendance of over 10,000 for the first time. McIlvanney Prize winner, Manda Scott, set the tone for...

A chance for Scots writers to fire up their career

Books | Scotland
Scottish Book Trust, the national charity transforming lives through reading and writing, has announced that applications are open for the Ignite Fellowship. Now in its...
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