After seeing Damian Barr’s photos from the set of a new series of The Big Scottish Book Club in Edinburgh earlier this month, we’re excited to see that it’ll be back on BBC Scotland & iPlayer from 7.30pm this Wednesday (28th)! 📚✨ More info: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Something in my eye here... #ChristopherReeveStory youtube.com/watch?v=gX-B3H…

🚨 Biffy Clyro, Paolo Nutini, Franz Ferdinand, The Proclaimers, Karine Polwart, Mogwai, Young Fathers, Glasvegas, Frightened Rabbit, Honeyblood, Kathryn Joseph, Julie Fowlis & Fergus McCreadie join the rebellion against Scotland’s arts funding cuts. 🚨 scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu…

Carla Arnott has launched a petition in response to Glasgow City Council clearing an area of remembrance in Linn Crematorium. I spoke to her for today's The Herald. 'Respect has been forgotten': Family heartache as crematorium memorials removed heraldscotland.com/news/24547574.…

Looking forward to speaking to this remarkable man again.

Today is Dr graham Bryce's 70th birthday. Tomorrow, he'll cycle from Glasgow to Palestine, with his wife, Anne. I spoke to them about it for The Herald Medical Aid for Palestinians heraldscotland.com/news/24553743.…

Our brand new podcast has finally launched… ⭐️💕🧡😭😭🙌⭐️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wom…

The In Conversation with Juano Diaz Artist and Author and Paul English at National Library of Scotland is now available to book. nls.uk/whats-on/juano…

Every now and then, you meet folk doing this job whose qualities and attitude serve as a reminder of how to be, or try to be. Like Duncan Campbell, Jr and Sr. I met Duncan Campbell Jr last year for an interview about staging his debut Fringe show while being treated for terminal

It's 20 years since A Play, A Pie and a Pint opened in Glasgow. I spoke to David Anderson, Juliet Cadzow and Brido Hingwy about its beginnings and the legacy of Dave MacLennan, the man who made it happen. For The Herald heraldscotland.com/life_style/245…

I caught the preview screening of #Nightsleeper a few weeks ago (the day after I put my 80 year old mother on a train to Euston by herself). Spoke to James Cosmo about his role as the pensioner travelling south on a runaway train for today's Sunday Mail. #Sundaypapers

It's 50 years since the #Captayannis foundered in the Clyde. Generations have grown up knowing it as part of the seascape of the Firth. I joined sightseeing company Clyde Charters to get up for a closer look for BBC Radio Scotland's Out of Doors. Listen here from 1.06.00:

Adventures in Book Town. Taking control of the Open Book Wigtown shop tomorrow, which I'll be writing about this weekend. ***SPECIAL BOOK CAKE PROMO*** My maw's fruit loaf. Once it's done, it's done.

Packed WigtownBookFestival Open Book Wigtown tonight for Paul English’s excellent talk on his authorised biography of Deacon Blue #tobeheresomeday chaired by SFPR ! Wanting to revisit the music of my youth now! #wigtown

The family of Duncan Campbell Jr went to incredible lengths to support his determination to live as full a life as he could with a malignant brain tumour. I spoke to his father, Duncan Sr, about the New York trial of a non-invasive treatment his late son took part in, and the

Kathleen English & Son, Bookshop and Bakery. Read all about it. #buyasundaypaper

There's a second hand bookshop in Wigtown that people fly in from all over the world to take a shot of running. I went last week to have a go myself. And I took the family baker and bibliophile as the business USP. For The Sunday Post sundaypost.com/fp/open-book-w…