Edinburgh Book Festival
Who runs Iran? Is its military still powerful? What is the legacy of the 1979 revolution that produced an…
Serena Scott began by asking Rhidan Brook to describe the background to his book, "The Aftermath".
Billed as considering ‘The Emotional Arguments', the final debate of three sponsored by The Guardian…
“Mary Livingstone was not only neglected by her husband David but airbrushed out of history.”
This event, the final in a series at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (and almost the final one of…
Paddy Ashdown is well known to Edinburgh Book Festival audiences, so Peter Gutteridge was able to give him…
Charlotte Higgins and Jean Seaton are uniquely placed to talk about the BBC and contemplate its future.
Nick Davies is an impressive individual who has rightly been named as the Journalist of the Year and also…
Andy Wightman’s appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, like that of many another author,…
Roy Hattersley was introduced as someone who has been at every Edinburgh Book Festival since 1983 which is…
The James Tait Black Prizes were founded in 1919 by Janet Coats, the widow of publisher James Tait Black, to…
This was The Open University Event, with the person who was identified as 'The Most Dangerous Woman in…
Is arts journalism in crisis?
Whether Steve Bell can be described as ‘Britain’s best loved cartoonist’ is possibly a matter for debate.
This event had the added enticement of free morning coffee (courtesy of Prestige Venues), which we could…
Anna Day, founder and director of the Dundee Literary Festival introduced this event entitled Killer Queen -…
Stuart McHardy and Gary West made something of an odd couple in their joint appearance in Pepper’s Theatre at…
This entertaining discussion about F. Scott Fitzgerald was like eavesdropping on an animated, cultural…
Jenny Brown chaired the session with Michael Palin which was billed as "The RBS Event" and there were a very…
Iain Macwhirter’s ‘Road to Referendum’, a potted history of how we got to where we are, is now in paperback,…