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A major documentary series on Sir Billy Connolly and a new family sitcom being developed by Burnistoun’s creators will part of the new season line-up unveiled for the second year of BBC Scotland’s channel.
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The BBC has been criticised in Scotland after revealing its flagship The Nine programme's viewing figures.
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IT’S not a showy piece of work, Annie George’s show Home Is Not The Place, based on an earlier piece known as The Bridge. One performer, one stepladder, one screen, one old tall desk of the kind from which...
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The South Lanarkshire market town of Strathaven has become an unlikely musical hot spot in recent months thanks to a series of bespoke acoustic concerts promoted by Frets Creative, aka Love & Money bassist and Creeping Bent Records honcho Douglas MacIntyre.
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Beethoven is everywhere, not surprisingly in his 250th anniversary year. The key question for any organisation, though, is how to celebrate without tokenism a composer so individual, so vital, so visionary, so timeless.
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“It was a bang and it was big,” declares Edwin Morgan’s cosmic chronicler, opening Planet Wave, the late Makar’s collaboration with saxophonist and composer Tommy Smith, premiered 27 years ago and given volatile new life by the SNJO, of which Smith is director.
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A four-gold medal haul at the swimming pool helped Jain University, Bengaluru, take early lead in the inaugural Khelo India University Games here on Sunday.
Guru Nanak Dev University's (Amritsar) fencing...
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I love going abroad, but I've found that if you don't have the weather, you're invariably stuck indoors, staring at the rain hammering at the windows or watching English TV programmes dubbed over in the language of your destination.
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Jyotika Dutta of Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, on Sunday won the epee gold in the fencing competition of the inaugural Khelo India University Games here.
The 22-year-old diminutive epee specialist...
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Some of my early motoring was in what we now call a pick-up. The late 70s Toyota Hiace didn’t have much in the way of toys or luxury. Businesses used practical light trucks built on, say, a Ford Transit chassis.
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The future of the Edinburgh International Book Festival is under increasing threat due to the “negative” environmental impact of the event on one of the city’s most historic gardens, it has emerged.
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More than 90 per cent of Edinburgh’s schools are now involved with the city’s festivals in some way, new research has revealed.
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The future of the Edinburgh International Book Festival is under increasing threat due to the “negative” environmental impact of the event on one of the city’s most historic gardens, it has emerged.
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TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson swapped Porsches for potatoes on Saturday as he threw open the doors to his farm shop for the first time.
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Celebrity fans of hit sitcom Friends have taken to Instagram to share their excitement about a reunion special.
