“Well, like many a teenager we’ve grown through the years, and learnt our mistakes,” says Allan Hunter, co-director of the annual Glasgow Film Festival, which this month returns to the city for the 14th time. Much has changed since 2005, not least how both Glasgow […]
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Set for a Clean Sweep?
Scotland has produced many Olympic athletes down the decades but, for sheer consistency, it’s hard to ignore the success of the country’s curling teams since the sport gained Olympic status in 1998. With Great Britain consistently among the world’s top seven, much of the focus […]
James Allan Wilson
Journalist, filmmaker, writer Born: April 14, 1923; Died: January 4, 2018 James Allan Wilson, who has died from heart failure a few months shy of his 95th birthday, was a journalist, filmmaker and writer whose influence on the development of documentary filmmaking in Scotland inspired the Saltire Society to award him Honorary Membership in 2015. […]
Colonial Community
Dotted around Edinburgh are more than half-a-dozen unique neighbourhoods built primarily during the latter half of the 19th century. Instantly recognisable thanks to their parallel lines of distinctive two-story buildings, usually with external staircases leading to the ‘Upper’ flats, these ‘Colony’ homes were originally built to provide affordable, quality housing for the city’s artisan working […]
Solar Bear break new ground with a production of Caryl Churchill’s ‘Love and Information’
A new touring production of Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information is an excellent showcase for its young cast from the UK’s only performance degree for D/deaf actors at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, in collaboration with leading Scottish company Solar Bear. Review by Paul F […]
Living History from Underwater
Most people’s idea of an archaeologist is unlikely to have them wearing diving gear, but Dr Nicholas “Nick” Dixon OBE would beg to disagree. “Scotland has an immensely rich underwater heritage,” he insists. “It is often with regret that I have concentrated my efforts in […]
A Second Chance At First Light: The Isaac Newton Telescope at 50
When The Queen inaugurated the Isaac Newton Telescope on 1 December 1967, its 98-inch mirror made it the fourth-largest reflector telescope in the world. “It is often said that our most brilliant young men are tempted to leave the country and join the brain drain […]
