Friday, March 29, 2024

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BOOK FESTIVAL – MP Jesse Norman on Adam Smith and why he matters today

BY BOB CUMMINS Jesse Norman. the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Department for Transport at the Edinburgh Book Festival to promote his latest book, Adam Smith...

BOOK FESTIVAL – The book every man should read

A personal reflection on Laura Bates - Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism by Bob Cummins.  I'm here to see Laura Bates tonight because I am...

BOOK FESTIVAL – Maryn McKenna tells the truth about chickens

BY BOB CUMMINS   Simon Preston is a food innovator and co-presenter of Kitchen Cafe, BBC Radio Scotland’s weekly food programme. Today, he is interviewing Maryn...

BOOK FESTIVAL – Shapeshifters: Medicine, and the human behind it

BY BOB CUMMINS   Gavin Francis, a physician in Edinburgh, writer and explorer shares insights from his past that have inspired his current book, Shapeshifters; on...

FESTIVAL ALTER EGO Q&A – Katherine Webber / Wing Jones

AS PART of Deadline at the Fest, we are interviewing performers from across the month by putting 20 questions to them - both as...

Politics blogger predicts that new Cameron baby will have an unusual name

By Amanda MacMillan A TOP Tory blogger predicted that Prime Minister David Cameron and wife Samantha would give their new daughter a “slightly weird” name. Political...

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