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Life With Bunny Christie: ‘My earliest memories of the theatre is being taken to see Peter Pan in Dundee’

By Ellie Forbes | July 9, 2025

Tony and Oliver award winner, Bunny Christie on her incredible set and costume design, growing up in Scotland and receiving an honorary doctorate from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.   I grew up near St Andrews in Fife, in a little village nearby surrounded by fields and  woods. We cycled around and bought Highland toffee…

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Life With Lubna Kerr: ‘Comedy was my calling, I loved to make people laugh as a child’

By Ellie Forbes | July 2, 2025

Scottish comedian Lubna Kerr on growing up in Glasgow, her favourite place in Scotland, and what people can expect from her Edinburgh Festival Fringe show this year.   I grew up in Pollokshields in Glasgow when Pakistani people were the minority. Now you need a tan to fit in. Now I live in Edinburgh and…

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Life With Gray O’Brien: ‘I am so disappointed with the current vein of dramas on TV at the moment’

By Ellie Forbes | June 24, 2025

Scottish actor Gray O’Brien on growing up, the TV he’s watching at home, and the best advice he’s ever been given.    I was born in Glasgow and moved to Stewarton, Ayrshire where I was brought up from the age of three, but I live in Stirlingshire now.  I was a nightmare pupil at school.…

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Life With Mairi Campbell: ‘Hearing my version of Auld Lang Syne in the Sex And The City was surreal’

By Ellie Forbes | June 13, 2025

Mairi Campbell chats to us about bringing her Pendulum Trilogy together for the first time, the music she listens to at home, and her song being featured in Sex And The City.    I grew up in Edinburgh. My mum’s family is Edinburgh; my dad is West Highland. I grew up in the city –…

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Life With Damien Warren-Smith: ‘Gary’s my alter ego. He’s me if I had zero inhibitions. He’s my Sasha Fierce’

By Ellie Forbes | June 9, 2025

Damien Warren-Smith, aka Garry Starr, on his Scottish roots, his alter ego and the Monty Python sketch he wished he’d created.   I was born in Inverness but sadly left Scotland when I was less than a year old. My Dad worked for BBC Radio Scotland, but my Mum was from the northern beaches of…

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Life With Linwood Barclay: ‘Sir Ian Rankin took me for a drink at The Oxford Bar, it was special’

By Ellie Forbes | June 3, 2025

Author Linwood Barclay on being take to The Oxford Bar with Ian Rankin, the books he always recommends and his time in Scotland.    I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but my parents moved north to the suburbs of Toronto, in Canada, just before I turned four years old. And when it was time to…

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Life With Jonny & the Baptists: ‘Scotland is just a very wonderful place all round’

By Ellie Forbes | May 19, 2025

Musical comedy duo, Jonny & the Baptists (Jonny Donahoe and Paddy Gervers) on their love of Scotland, their new show The Happiness Index and their guilty pleasures.    Where did you grow up? Jonny: I grew up in Reading, where many people have changed trains. Queen Victoria hated Reading so much she insisted her statue…

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Life with MĂ iri MacMillan: ‘You don’t need to speak Gaelic to enjoy the music’

By Ellie Forbes | May 7, 2025

Traditional Scottish singer MĂ iri MacMillan on growing up in Uist, the music of her childhood and why you don’t need to speak Gaelic to enjoy the music.    I grew up in South Uist in the Western Isles, but I live on the Southside of Glasgow now. I don’t believe in mainland ghosts, but there…

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Life With Maria MacDonell: ‘Acting was always my first love’

By Ellie Forbes | April 24, 2025

Scottish actress Maria MacDonell on getting older, the best advice she has ever been given and working as an artist’s model at 60.   I grew up in the Highlands on the Black Isle. I remember the days of the Kessock Ferry before the bridge was built. I studied hard at school, played music and…

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Life With The Orkney Island Games: ‘Organising a huge event on a Scottish island presents logistical challenges’

By Ellie Forbes | January 21, 2025

We catch up with Kirsty Talbot, director of the Orkney Island Games, to find out about her life on Orkney, how life compares to Glasgow, and the experience from working at the Olympics and Commonwealth Games she’ll be taking into this year’s event.   Moving from Glasgow to Orkney has been incredible for us, we…

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