In his 2013 book, Damian Barr writes of growing up in Newarthill in North Lanarkshire, the son of a steel miner who lost his job in Ravenscraig. He was a Catholic in a Protestant community and a gay schoolboy at a time of Section 28 which shut down open conversations about homosexuality in schools.
The radio presenter was sacked by the BBC, all part of a cull of older presenters of the time. But where the likes of major talents such as Steve Wright and Simon Mayo migrated onto Radio 2, Gary Davies dropped off the air waves.
WHO would have thought that a curious glance at a bank note image of a Scots writer wearing Wonder Woman headgear would result in a powerful, utterly compelling new play?
MORNA Young was certainly doing backflips in her mind when Dundee Rep’s artistic director Andrew Panton called with an idea; would she be interested in adapting Sunset Song?
What makes the Swedes so deserving of continual recycling, when all they’ve offered is Europop tunes and often confused lyrical imagery?
THIS isn’t simply a television series; this is an event.
Gabriel Quigley, one of Scotland’s most talented actors, has adapted the Muriel Stark novella, The Girls of Slender Means, and it’s clearly been a labour of love.
The story took place in 1994, at a point when the Scotland Women’s Rugby Team were all set to take part in the World Rugby Cup in the Netherlands. However, the tournament was cancelled, with no good reason supplied.
There’s little doubt that Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow captured the imagination of the American public back in the Depression days.
Kieran Hodgson, who has made his home in Glasgow, looks at the differences between the Scots and the English.
