Saturday, 17 November: it was raining outside the London Welsh Centre when I arrived for New Ways to Make Journalism Pay II, a one day conference organised by the London Freelance branch of the NUJ. Quite apt, really; after all, the event’s subtitle was: “A freelance lifeboat in the perfect storm”. It was certainly a […]
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Douglas Adams’ Shada, by Gareth Roberts
Edited version published on Edinburgh Book Review There are many “lost” Doctor Who stories. Most obviously, there are 106 monochrome episodes — starring the show’s original lead William Hartnell and his 1960s successor Patrick Troughton — missing from the BBC Archive, the legacy of the then-unthinking (and now unthinkable) industry-wide policy of wiping video-tape or […]
Robert Softley Gale, If These Spasms Could Speak
Paul F Cockburn recently spoke with Robert Softely — co-creator of last year’s National Theatre of Scotland show Girl X — as he prepared to return to the stage with If These Spasms Could Speak. The new show, running as part of the Behaviour festival of live performance at The Arches in Glasgow, is a collection of funny, sad, touching and surprising stories […]
Enquiries within…
The timing is certainly apt; Enquirer, the new “rapid-response verbatum work” being put on by the National Theatre of Scotland, is a much-needed opportunity to explore the stark choices facing the UK’s newspaper industry at a time when it’s under innately hostile public scrutiny and the financial rug of its traditional economic model is being […]
EIBF: Some Random Thoughts
Some random thoughts and memories from the previous four days at the Edinburgh International Book Festival: • A L Kennedy gets a very “I know it’s a bit impertinent, but…” opening question from the audience during her main Festival appearance: “Why aren’t you married?” Her reply is that the somewhat selfish needs of being “the best […]
