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This event proved one of the most stimulating and thought provoking this reviewer has thus far attended at…
Professor Willy Maley and post-graduate student Kirsty Luck have edited one among the more valuable…
This was an inspiring and engaging discussion at the Edinburgh Book Festival about the rising…
A long queue for the Studio Theatre at the Edinburgh International Book Festival attested to the interest Ian…
The title of Iain Macwhirter’s event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival - ‘Scotland’s Democratic…
In his introductory discussion of ‘A Military History of Scotland’ Edward Spiers was careful to point out…
‘The Annals of the Canongate Parish’ has a promising title, and manages to live up to it, though not perhaps…
Paddy Ashdown spoke at the Baker Tilly Event which was chaired by the BBC "Today" presenter James Naughtie.
There is happy buzzing chatter from the capacity audience in the Main Theatre.
As the Festival Season begins it is sometimes easy to forget just how dependent Edinburgh is on its many fine…
Tom McGrath, playwright, poet, translator and musician, died in April 2009 and tonight’s event comprised a…
The Morton Fraser Event, billed as "a man whose love of theatre and actors knows no bounds", featured Simon…
Amartya Sen wished to reassure us he was not ‘The Mother Theresa of Economics’.
Andy Hamilton, probably best known for appearances on ‘Have I Got News For You’ and ‘QI’ and rather less so…
Clearly Nina Stibbe is already very popular as this event was completely sold out.
While it may have been natural for the Edinburgh International Book Festival to commence its ‘Re-Thinking The…
Melvyn Bragg was introduced to the audience as someone who was well known as a broadcaster - working both for…
This session with Frances Wilson was chaired by Sheena McDonald who immediately discovered that very few…
The session with Anjan Sundaram with Jenny Niven in the Chair deserved to be better attended - the…
Al Senter, who was in the Chair, first asked BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner what made him decide to…