Edinburgh Book Festival
Professor Murray Pittockās new work on Culloden seeks to scotch (pun partly intended) three principal mythsā¦
The Speigeltent at the Edinburgh International Book Festival was near stowed for what promised to be a livelyā¦
Nicholas Hytnerās āBalancing Actsā is the latest in a considerable line of memoirs produced by formerā¦
This was an imaginative and inspirational double act - an international best selling crimeā¦
With a title like this and her recent wide appeal as a contestant in "Strictly Come Dancing" this show wasā¦
This was a politician at his best! Malcolm Rifkind was in ebullient mood when he spoke to a full house atā¦
These two talks by European writers at the Edinburgh Book Festival had themes of storytelling in common, withā¦
Tam Dalyell, Paul Rogers and Ruth Wishart came into the RBS Main Theatre well before the start of the sessionā¦
This was a splendid 'tour de force' by Paddy Ashdown which everyone thoroughly enjoyed.
Gavin Hewitt, BBC European Editor, opened his talk with an anecdote about football, particularly appositeā¦
Anyone passing by the Baillie Gifford Main Tent at the Book Festival on Thursday lunchtime could be forgivenā¦
The theme of this yearās Edinburgh Book Festival is summed up by the phrase āLetās Talkā illustrated withā¦
Roy Hattersley came to the first Edinburgh Book Festival in 1983 and has appeared in every year since then -ā¦
āWhat ish my nation?ā is Captain Fluellenās rhetorical demand in Shakespeareās āHenry Vā, his response beingā¦
These are the UKās oldest Literary Awards, founded in 1919 by Janet Coats, the widow of the publisher, Jamesā¦
This was a totally fascinating and entertaining hour with Douglas Hurd and Edward Young, ably chaired byā¦
This was The Open University Event, with the person who was identified as 'The Most Dangerous Woman inā¦
āEmbattledā might seem an odd choice of word to describe Henry McLeish, former First Minister and Davidā¦
There are not too many occasions when the speaker is already on stage as the audience come in.
For someone who was born on 10th October 1923 - and still broadcasting actively, one must assume that thisā¦