Books

  David Crystal has written Begat about the King James Bible’s influence on English language as a birthday present to it, for its 400th year in p... Read more »

  A fishing trip in honour of Norman MacCaig is the backbone of Greig’s At the Loch of the Green Corrie and MacCaig’s voice was present thr... Read more »

  What makes great art – where does it come from? Even with over 30 years of sharing popular and high art on The South Bank Show, Bragg conceded ... Read more »

  A Star Called Henry, the first in a planned trilogy to be titled The Last Roundup was published in 1999, and was followed in 2004 by Oh, Play That Th... Read more »

  When the chair, Aly Barr, tells you that he has been given the ‘young bloke’ strand of events and you sit in a room disturbingly close to... Read more »

Host Don Paterson made a surprising admission at the start of this event, that he’d been on Paul Muldoon’s Wikipedia page the night before and se... Read more »