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The Long Read: Outlander stars Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish take us on a Highland road trip with Clanlands.
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Campaign to save Edinburgh theatres backed by 10,000 people in a week.
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Photography exhibition charts 50 Years of The Scotsman's Fringe First Awards.
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Celtic Connections review: Bothy Culture and Beyond, Hydro, Glasgow @ccfest @DannyMacAskill_ @cuillinmusic
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The Scotsman Sessions #110: Kim Allan, Rehanna Macdonald, Ewan Somers and Betty Valencia perform the opening scene in Finegan Kruckemeyer’s play This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing. Intro by @JoyceMcM . @Stellarquines @imaginateUK.
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Outlander star Sam Heughan and Trainspotting’s Ewan McGregor to tackle Everest in new film.
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Apparently our last Outlander quiz was too easy, so we've made another one:. #Outlander @outlander_starz.
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Outlander star @SamHeughan reveals plans to fund new scholarships at his old drama school in Glasgow over the next decade to help unearth a new generation of stage and screen talents. @Outlander_STARZ @RCStweets.
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Sam Heughan says Outlander's global success has almost turned him into 'a spokesman for Scotland'.
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Sam Heughan: Appeal inspired by Outlander star nets $60,000 for Lyceum Theatre.
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Outlander star Sam Heughan has praised the show's fans as the "hardiest in the world" as they braved the Scottish weather to meet him.
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Outlander star @SamHeughan reveals plans to fund new scholarships at his old drama school in Glasgow over the next decade to help unearth a new generation of stage and screen talents. @Outlander_STARZ @RCStweets.
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Outlander star Sam Heughan offers students at old Scottish drama school chance to win funding and mentoring session.
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The Hebridean Dark Skies Festival: mixing culture with stargazing. Read more at: @anlanntair.
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Kate Copstick: "This is a frightened Fringe. And that is unacceptable.".
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge is to launch a Fleabag-inspired gin to help support the next generation of artists & performers to appear at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. @fleabag @Edinburgh_Gin @edfringe @edfests.
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Sam Heughan: Outlander star drops hint he’s favourite to play James Bond in Twitter post.
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Music review: FIVE STARS for Damon Albarn, St Luke's, Glasgow.
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Sam Heughan's first theatre company honours campaign to allow women to go to university with new show.
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In tomorrow's Scotsman Mag, @Outlander_STARZ @SamHeughan tells @JanetChristie2 how a walk through the Highlands for his bestselling new memoir, Waypoints, changed the way he looks at life.
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In tomorrow's Scotsman Mag, Outlander's Caitriona Balfe @caitrionambalfe talks to @janetchristie2 about starring in Kenneth Branagh's new film, Belfast.
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“What career?” Godfather of Scottish indie @EdwynCollins reflects on four decades in music, changing priorities and a slower pace of life during lockdown – and looks forward to his first live show in two years as part of @edintfest @NeuReekie .
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Outlander actor Lauren Lyle @LlaurenLyle tells @JanetChristie2 about bringing Val McDermid's Karen Pirie crime series to TV
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BREAKING: @VADundee awarded national status by the Scottish Government, securing an extra £2m a year to become the country’s official centre of design & play a key role in the nation’s Covid recovery. | Story via @brianjaffa.
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Welcome to Week One of The Scotsman Sessions! With the performing arts world shutting down for the foreseeable future, we will be commissioning a series of short video performances from artists all around the country and releasing them on
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Outlander star Sam Heughan reveals his torment at years of online bullying, harassment and stalking.
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Global honour for Scots drama school where Richard Madden, Sam Heughan and Alan Cumming studied.
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Scottish Youth Theatre said it has been left with no other option but to cease trading after more than 40 years after Creative Scotland rejected a bid for long-term support.
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Outlander star Sam Heughan reveals his torment at years of online bullying, harassment and stalking.
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★★★★★ for Grace Petrie in our latest Fringe comedy round-up, plus Andy Macleod, What’s Upset You Now? Live, Pam Ford & Sam Dodgshon. Reviews by Ben Walters @not_television, Fiona Shepherd and Kate Copstick. @AssemblyFest @gracepetrie.
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@Outlander_STARZ OK, sounds like that last quiz was a bit too easy for some people. Try this:. Outlander quiz: The ultimate knowledge test for diehard fans.
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James McAvoy spearheads new campaign to help future generations of Scots pursue careers in the arts.
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Every independent record shop in Scotland on one map http://t.co/K1i3CDc0tX via @wow247music
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Book review: Underland - A Deep Time Journey, by Robert Macfarlane. @hamishh1931 @RobGMacfarlane.
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Sam Heughan: Nuclear submarine play wins Outlander star’s first creative contest for drama students.
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SAS Red Notice: first look at new film starring Outlander actor Sam Heughan - and release date.
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Outlander season 6 cast: the new characters joining Sam Heughan in Starz drama - and which other faces will return?.
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In today's Scotsman mag. @JALowden speaks to @JanetChristie2 about his @BAFTA #RisingStar award nomination, @anaismitchell talks @hadestown and @bonnylightband with Fiona Shepherd, @joycemcm previews @manipulatefest PLUS @alainmas reviews the new novel from @isabelallende
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"I am European. I am Indian. I am British. And in Scotland, where for now I remain, I am English." . Read more at: @edhogmanay @chitgrrl.
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Ones to watch in 2017 - singer-songwriter Amy Macdonald. Interview by Fiona Shepherd @Amy__Macdonald
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Scots poet Len Pennie on raising awareness of mental health issues - interview by @wordsmansfield . @edbookfest @Lenniesaurus.
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Janey Godley records video message of support for Scots language campaigners abused on social media.
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Scotland’s film industry needs to address lack of women’s roles – Brian Ferguson.
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#BGT winner @LostVoiceGuy talks about his first comedy gig, selling out at his 6th #edFringe and adhering to the ‘quiet carriage’ rule on the train.
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James McAvoy steps in to rescue crisis-hit Edinburgh theatre group launch new classes with the stars.
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The Scotsman Sessions: links to numbers 1-100, and a huge thank you to all the artists who have recorded sessions so far! .
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Gaelic: Giving BBC Alba the same status as S4C, the Welsh service, would help the language survive – Professor Robert Dunbar.
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How a chance encounter with his childhood bully inspired Spooks star Richard Armitage to write a bestseller about atonement - interview by @JanetChristie2 .
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Music review: FIVE STARS for Billy Bragg, Saint Luke’s, Glasgow. @stlukesglasgow @billybragg @paulwhitelaw.
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How do you retell a historical story which everyone thinks they know? Killer queen of Scottish crime fiction @DameDeniseMina shows us how in her compelling new novella reexamining the murder of David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Scots: A musical history of Scotland in 50 minutes - for their new show @OranMorGlasgow, Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie of @wearenoisemaker are tackling some lesser-known figures from Scotland’s past, writes @joycemcm.
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'Today's Don Juans are in office' - Grant O'Rourke on modernising Molière. Interview by @MarkFFisher . @GrantORourke @horsecrossperth.
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Book review: Clanlands, by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish.
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In tomorrow's Scotsman Mag, @JaneyGodley tells @JanetChristie2 how she became the voice of a nation, @joycemcm catches up with Al Seed, Jim Gilchrist talks to @findlaynapier about his new album based on old @thescotsman folk columns PLUS @wordsmansfield reviews @GIfestival online
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"I’m more anxious about it than anything I have written for a long time.” Ahead of her 35th book launch for brand new thriller 1979 at @edbookfest, @valmcdermid explains to David Robinson how she still gets the jitters.
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"A deserved moment of absolute triumph" - @thelatedave reviews The Twilight Sad at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh. @thetwilightsad @theusherhall.
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Music review: FIVE STARS for The Twilight Sad, Barrowlands, Glasgow. Read more at: @thetwilightsad @MBJack.
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Global honour for Scots drama school where Richard Madden, Sam Heughan and Alan Cumming studied.
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Outlander: Here's where to see Sam Heughan and Succession star Brian Cox in Edinburgh next week.
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The Golden Road by William Dalrymple review: 'a wonderful book'.
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Outlander co-stars Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish have teamed up to write a book about the adventures of their roadtrip across Scotland.
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Sir Walter Scott’s ‘priceless’ original Rob Roy manuscript to go on display in Edinburgh.
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In today's Scotsman magazine. @AntoniaLThomas on The Good Doctor and Sunshine on Leith, @orlaoloughlin1 on her seven years @traversetheatre, Kirsty Gunn on the genius of Muriel Spark PLUS @KellyApter talks pointe shoes with the dancers of @scottishballet
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Exhibition devoted to Hollywood special effects legend to open in Edinburgh in October.
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In today's Scotsman Mag, @JaneyGodley tells @JanetChristie2 how she became the voice of a nation, @joycemcm catches up with Al Seed, Jim Gilchrist talks to @findlaynapier about his new album based on old @thescotsman folk columns PLUS @wordsmansfield reviews @GIfestival online
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Festival Diary: Janey Godley is big box office at the book festival.
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Bloody Scotland review: "Where other festivals might have shrunk, this one grew in ambition" writes @scotsmandavid . @BloodyScotland.
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"This song is very much about making sure you've said all the things you want to say to other people" - KT Tunstall performs new song Anything At All for our 100th Scotsman Session . @KTTunstall #ScotsmanSessions.
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National Library lifts lid on vast archive donated by Ian Rankin.
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Sam Heughan's first theatre company honours campaign to allow women to go to university with new show.
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Congratulations to @ProfSueBlack, winner of the 2018 Saltire Book of the Year Award! Read Stuart Kelly's review of All That Remains here:. Read more at: @Saltire_Society.
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