John Barrowman is a busy man. On the Thursday the Glasgow-born actor, singer and presenter speaks with The Scots Magazine, he’s officially promoting Dick McWhittington—his fourth panto with entertainment stalwarts The Krankies–which will draw crowds to the SECC this Christmas. It’s not exactly the day-off he deserves, after 10 long days recording 25 episodes […]
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Signs of the Times
Heriot Watt University is trailblazing a new course to increase the number of British Sign Language translators. When the National Records of Scotland released long-awaited data from the 2011 census this autumn, including figures on language skills and language use across Scotland, almost all of the media focused on the relative ups and downs of […]
50 Reasons to Love Doctor Who
“Oh my god, oh my God you guys, it’s finally here! The weekend where we celebrate 50 years since The Tardis, The Doctor and a variety of other things beginning with The made people start fantasising about getting into a box with an older man. To celebrate lets look at 50 reasons to love Doctor […]
20 Years Out! Glasgay!
In 20 years the annual Glasgay! festival has become the UK’s largest multi-media LGBT arts festival. Pride Life asks Producer Steven Thomson why you should add it to your cultural diary. Remember the ‘L’ word? “Legacy” was the buzz term attached early on to the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games, and it’s been inevitably […]
Blossom, by Lesley Riddoch
“Scots are currently being asked to define Scottishness through the constitutional prism of independence alone,” writes Lesley Riddoch, early on in her new book. “But perhaps that isn’t a wide, searching or engaging enough perspective.” Riddoch admits from the start that Blossom: What Scotland Needs To Flourish “could be dismissed as a rant. It is […]
Libby McGugan Interview
How would you describe The Eidolon? A science fiction thriller that explores the nature of reality through an edge-of-the-seat storyline featuring dark matter, the CERN laboratory, and the boundary between the living and the dead. That’s my publisher’s description, and it’s better than the one I came up with. Are there any authors who have […]
By Causeway to Cramond
There’s a sense of abandonment when you visit Cramond Island. While human habitation literally goes back thousands of years (a prehistoric long cist burial chamber was uncovered in the 1940s), there’s little now to show of it and Mother Nature is doing her very best to reclaim the island as her own. Once sturdy farm […]
