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Showing posts with label scottish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scottish. Show all posts
Thursday, 23 October 2025

Robert Burns Art influences

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  Robert Burns and other poets wrote with Scots Voices. In the 1700s many worked to write down and collect the old Scots songs.   At a time ...
Tuesday, 30 September 2025

Revival Scots Language

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  I attended a talk last week by the Scots poet Len Pennie at Dreamworks Bookshop Milngavie Pennie’s poems have more lilting lyrical musical...
Saturday, 30 August 2025

Mark Kermode Front list with Brian Cox EIBF 2025

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Film critic Mark Kermode gave a Front List talk with renowned Scots actor Brian Cox, and Scots actors Kate Dickie and Michelle Gomez.   Bria...
Thursday, 31 July 2025

Festivals made in London shipped to Scotland

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The Edinburgh Film festival  Is the oldest film festival in the world, honouring over 70 years. However - The Edinburgh Film Festival has be...
Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Is Wales ahead of Scotland now

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  Wales has decided to improve the faulty supposedly PR (proportional representation) voting system given to its Devolved government in 1999...

Dick Gaughan Retrospective, interview Radio Scotland

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  Dick Gaughan Retrospective, interview BBC Radio Scotland Anna Massie    Thursday 17 July, 7.30pm -  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0lqm...
Monday, 31 March 2025

Keeping the Celtic Traditions Alive

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  A decade ago I spent a few days in Montrose. My partner said there’s not a lot to do here. I went a walk to the library and to my surprise...
Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Bob Dylan and his Scots folk music traditions

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I enjoyed reading the informed article 'The Scottish folk origins of Dylan’s best loved tracks', Ruairdh Mackenzie, Sunday National ...
Saturday, 29 June 2024

A Just Transition who decides

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  Its crucial we have sustainable and realistic moves to Net Zero. For a fair just transition should a small group of activists decide?   Fo...