The latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast is the third of our Edinburgh Fringe Festival Previews, where Ali talks to a few of the artists who will be appearing at the festival this year. First of all, he spoke to writer and director Dante Passarelli about The Last Drop which is part of the São Paulo Showcase and which was nominated for Brazil's 2024 Shell Award for Best Playwriting. In the play, "A couple awaits a real estate agent to visit their historic but decayed apartment. A mo

A version of this article first appeared in PRODUCT magazine Music fans of a certain vintage are likely to have first encountered Talk Talk in their early post-punk synthpop stage, contemporaries with the likes of Tears for Fears, Duran Duran, and China Crisis; Top of the Pops semi-regulars complete with fretless bass, sharp suits, and a hint of eyeliner. The first two albums The Party's Over (1982) and It's My Life (1984) were very much of that time, and there were singles,

The latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast is the second of our Edinburgh Fringe Festival Previews, where Ali talks to a few of the artists who will be appearing at the festival this year. First of all, Ali spoke to writer and performer Kara Wilson about her one-woman show Helen Bradley: Painter and Storyteller. "This is the sixth painter play that Kara Wilson has written, where she portrays the artist at work and completes an oil painting in her style during the show. Privileged to

Ed Gamester, Sadiq Ali and Dan Bishop The latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast is the first of our Edinburgh Fringe Festival Previews, where Ali talks to a few of the artists who will be appearing at the festival this year. First of all, Ed Gamester talks about Mythos Ragnarök, where you can "join Loki, Thor and the Norse Gods in this five-star groundbreaking blend of mythological storytelling and high-octane wrestling." Then Sadiq Ali takes us through his latest show, Tell Me, whe

For the first of our Bloody Scotland podcasts - Scotland's International Crime Writing Festival - Ali spoke to the five shortlisted authors for this year's Scottish Crime Debut of the Year. They include May Rinaldi - Liar Thief, Zoë Rankin - The Vanishing Place, Linda Duncan McLaughlin - Original Sins, Frances Crawford - A Bad, Bad Place, and Kirsty Lockwood - We Know What You Did. They each give a brief summary of their shortlisted novels before the chat turns to the inspira

Graeme Thomson For the latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast Ali spoke to returning guest, music journalist and writer Graeme Thomson to talk about his new book In Another World: The Four Seasons Of Talk Talk which is out now, published with New Modern. Graeme explains why he wanted to write about Talk Talk, the structure of the book, why he focuses on four featured albums, and what they mean to him, and the challenges in writing a book about a band who refuse to, or simply can't, t