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MacCrimmon pipes up for a fun children’s book

Young MacCrimmon and the Silver Chanter is a comical children’s story tells the story of a piping school and the struggle of a young pupil,...
Awards nominee Gerda Stevenson (Photo: Anna Wiraszka)

A week to go until Scots Language Awards

The inaugural Scots Language Awards are to be presented next week. In 2019, The United Nations Year of Indigenous Language, Hands Up for Trad have...

A passionate affair in The Sound of the Hours

Occupation during the Second World War in Barga, Tuscany, turns plans for the future of 17-year-old Vita on their head, in The Sound of the...

Richard Demarco to warn of sculpture’s Scottish future

Artist and arts promoter Richard Demarco CBE will tell a special conference that Scottish sculpture is under-celebrated and faces a daunting future. However, he believes...
Author Dorian Lynskey

What has made Room 101 and Big Brother normal

Author Dorian Lynskey believes that every generation finds aspects of George Orwell’s 1984 that resonate with their own political times. Today we have the normalisation...

The Exorcist can still provide its share of shocks

On its original cinematic release, The Exorcist became one of the most shocking films of the 1970s. Whilst it's hard to replicate 1973 sensibilities in...