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A clan chief’s wife and Conservatoire’s principal in our podcast

Scottish Field's weekly podcast is back for its 11th episode this week. Joining us this week is Fiona Armstrong, or, to give her her formal...

Finding solace in fishing during cancer battle

Cancer and fishing sounds like an odd pairing, but after a few pages, I was hooked. Mick May’s autobiographical journey makes total sense. This is...

Some holistic ponderings about life in new book

On opening this book, it becomes clear that the title, A Quiet Wife, gives away nothing about the nature of our protagonist.  And thank God...

Stories from the people who live in Blair Atholl

As most Scots will know, Blair Atholl is a pretty patch. This book compiles stories of Atholl from the people who inhabit it, although this...

Lifting the lid on cult film classic Highlander

With a helping hand from more than sixty cast and crew members from the cult classic film Highlander, arts journalist Jonathan Melville reveals all about...
An Alexander Goudie self portrait with palette and black smock c. 1985 (Image: Goudie Estate)

A new exhibition to mark painter Alexander Goudie

Flamboyant and confrontational Scottish figurative painter Alexander Goudie is being celebrated in a new exhibition. Goudie (1933-2004) was part of a generation of influential painters...


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