Sep 24, 2019
Two great things about eating beef from Galloway raised on the region’s upland farms are that they taste superb and are good for the environment. Patrick Laurie will be inviting the public to see the work he is doing to restore the balance between agriculture and...
Sep 23, 2019
Scotland’s National Book Town is gearing up for a friendly invasion of book lovers when the annual Wigtown Book Festival gets underway this week. Authors and authorities of every kind will be talking about a multitude of subjects including new evidence about the...
Sep 23, 2019
Authors, illustrators and storytellers from all over the country will be joining Big Wig – a large, friendly blue creature who lives in the woods – for the annual children’s book festival named in her honour. Among them will be Alan Windram, from near Oban, who will...
Sep 16, 2019
For the first time a poem in Scots has won the annual £1,500 international Wigtown Prize for poetry. Shiftin, by Mhairi Owens, was among entries from poets from as far afield as the USA, China, Canada and Ecuador, writing in English, Scots and Scottish Gaelic. This...
Sep 13, 2019
Veteran international war correspondent and photojournalist David Pratt has been invited to deliver this year’s Magnusson Lecture at the Wigtown Book Festival. Over the past four decades he has offered understanding and insights into the people and the tumultuous...
Sep 10, 2019
This Hallowe’en the doors are being opened on a largely forgotten Dumfries building. The proprietors are inviting you to The Feast – somewhere in central Dumfries. In October the award-winning Bunbury Banter Theatre Company, in association with Grid Iron, Surge and...
