On Sunday 19th October Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, had an informal meeting with members of the rapidly growing Green Party. Although on holiday, she was keen to talk and to learn about the isla...
David Scheel, who was last on Arran nine years ago, broke with all tradition in his concert at the High School theatre last week. Nothing was treated with reverence, and funny stories abounded, inters...
On Saturday November 15th, in Brodick Hall at 1:30 pm (please note, winter concerts will be in the afternoon) a brilliant young quartet called Total Brass will be performing. They won the hotly contes...
On Wednesday, 19th November, as a guest of the Saltire Society, Professor Alan Riach will be at Brodick’s Ormidale Pavilion, speaking about his work as Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgo...
Went the Day Well, an Ealing Studios film made by Cavalcanti in 1942, was a slightly belated effort to warn good Brits that the enemy might infiltrate us on our own ground. Invasion had been a very re...
Jim Henderson sends an account of his travels this summer through some of Scotland’s other islands. The first section appears here, and there will be more in subsequent issues. I left Arran our ...
David Cameron’s love-affair with fracking reached a new level of passion when the industry’s plan to to drill under our homes was rubber-stamped by the House of Lords – but even wors...
Philippa Whitford will be speaking in the social area of Arran High School on 28th November, 7 pm for 7.30. Philippa is a highly qualified breast cancer specialist, and is passionate about the need to...
For this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, the Scottish playwright, Rona Munro, was commissioned to write a series of three plays on the lives of James I (The Key Will Keep the Lock), Jam...
selected by David Underdown, who supplies the footnote Late Air by Elizabeth Bishop From a magician’s midnight sleeve the radio-singers distribute all their love-songs over the dew-wet lawns. An...