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Maggie O'Farrell on how family history informed her new novel

Ashley Storrie stars in the new season of BAFTA winning Dinosaur, which she co-wrote with Matilda Curtis, on BBC Scotland, BBC iPlayer and BBC Three.

Ashley Storrie on love, loss and a new Dinosaur season

Tim Key appeared on Series 1 of Taskmaster, finishing in fourth place with 88 points. He remains a 'task consultant' on the show. Fresh from co-writing and starring in this year's critically-acclaimed comedy 'The Ballad of Wallis Island', he's at the Pleasance Courtyard this year with his latest show 'Loganberry' from 30 July to 17 August

Tim Key returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with Loganberry

The gift card market was worth £7bn in the UK last year – a figure that is expected to rise to £9bn in 2025 (Picture: stock.adobe.com)

Martyn James: What to look out for when you go shopping with gift cards

A History of Paper by the late Oliver Emanuel and Gareth Williams will be premiered at the Traverse Theatre at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Musical love story to honour memory of playwright Oliver Emanuel at the Fringe

Andy Murray has hinted he will keep going until at least this summer’s Olympics. Pic: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

Andy Murray reveals when he plans to retire after defeat to Ugo Humbert in Dubai

Book into the Heartbreak Hotel to meet others who share your pain

Face the ache at the Heartbreak Hotel

Despite any polling, rejoining the EU is over for now Brian Monteith

Among my grief and helplessness, I have also felt gratitude for the life I have

An old wireless set this this was among Alastair Dalton's first radio memories. (Photo by Creative Commons Zero - CC0)

Passions: My love of radio from childhood ‘wireless’ memories to streaming apps

King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla

Breaking BBC announces full schedule and presenters for King’s coronation

Ghosts of the Near Future. Pic: Contributed.

Fringe theatre reviews: Ghosts of the Near Future | Red Alert – Cancer! | Spoons...

Martin Tyler and the BBC have apologised after the commentator appeared to suggest the Hillsborough disaster was linked to hooliganism.

BBC issue apology over Martin Tyler Hillsborough comments

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Farming: Chris Packham faces CA wrath

Jenni Fagan PIC: Mihaela Bodlovic

Aye Write reviews: Justin Webb | Jenni Fagan | David Hendy

Sir Ray Tindle meeting The Queen in 2002 (Picture: PA)

Scotsman Obituaries: Sir Ray Tindle, newspaper and radio entrepreneur

Winter Journey

Inside Art: ‘The Inner Life of a Painting’

Outlander has been made at Wardpark Studios in Cumbernauld since 2013.

Scotland needs to step up studio game to capitalise on film and TV boom

Clockwise from top left: Fruit and pastries freezers empty at Sainsbury's in Craigleith; bottled water shelves empty at Lidl in Granton, sliced cheese shelves empty at Morrisons at The Gyle.

Shoppers told 'no need to panic buy'

The Scotsman Sessions #260: Jamie MacDonald

The Delta Variant has become the dominant strain of Covid in Scotland (Getty Images)

All you need to know about the Delta Variant and 'Delta plus'

A huge transformation is on the cards. Picture: PA

Long-running Scottish drama on the cards under BBC transformation plans

Caroline Flack's suicide sparked a national conversation about vitriolic media scrutiny and relentless online nastiness (Picture: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images)

How cynical social media influencers can escape scrutiny – Laura Waddell

Celebrate the life of Humphrey Lyttelton with jazz band tour

Steve Royle remembering dad’s rules and regulations in our Austin Maxi

Last year, Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker was the BBC's highest earner, on £1.75 million.

BBC to publish salaries of top talent

Face masks are part of our new normal, along with social distancing and home working. But beyond the physical changes to the nature of work, what about the skills needed to deliver it, asks Craig Vickery. (Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire)

Scotland will need skills to survive in harsh post-Covid world – Craig Vickery

Dame Jenni Murray is leaving Radio 4 programme Woman’s Hour after 33 years on the show (Photo: John Stillwell - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Here’s why Dame Jenni Murray is leaving Radio 4 show Woman’s Hour

Comedian Miles Jupp will kick off the festival on July 24.

Host of stars on board for Radio 4’s comedy festival

As the sun rises above the Tibetan Plateau, Pasang Kaji Sherpa (front) and Lhakpa Tenje Sherpa pass 28,700 feet on Mount Everest. The big question: Did George Mallory and Sandy Irvine get this far — or perhaps reach the top — in 1924? (PIC: Renan Ozturk/National Geographic)

Everest: A new chapter in the search for British climber Sandy Irvine

Emily Maitlis disappeared from the airwaves briefly after saying Dominic Cummings had broken lockdown rules (Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

How the BBC made my blood run cold – Joyce McMillan

‘100% accurate’ antibody test could be coronavirus breakthrough

‘100% accurate’ antibody test could be coronavirus breakthrough

An archive image of The Archers being recorded in the 1950s for the BBC Home Service (Picture; BBC)

Coronavirus: Who cares about The Archers now? – Joyce mcMillan

All UK Pubs, restaurants, cinemas and other leisure facilities have been ordered to close from Friday (20 Mar) (Photo: Shutterstock)

UK pubs, restaurants, cinemas and gyms ordered to close amid coronavirus battle

All services have been cancelled from Wednesday

Church of Scotland cancels Easter services and issues guidance on funerals

Campaigners for trans rights, which has grown as a political issue in recent years, protest outside the Scottish Parliament (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

History teaches us that predatory men will abuse trans rights – Gina Davidson

Ms Ahmed has been backed by broadcaster Sandi Toksvig, lawyer Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, and former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger.

Broadcaster Samira Ahmed takes BBC to employment tribunal for 'unfair' £465 fee ...

Lord Singh of Wimbledon

Sikh peer accuses BBC of 'prejudice' as he quits Radio 4 show after 35 years

David Cameron's long-awaited political memoir is published this month. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

David Cameron: I lobbied the Queen on independence because of Alex Salmond

While the media focused on whether Johnson's foot on Macron's table was an insult or not, the futility of the Prime Minister's blustering diplomacy was obscured. Picture: Christophe Petit Tesson/Getty

Dani Garavelli: We need to start treating journalism as a quest for truth

Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott has said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn would have to abide by the party's democratic decision if that was to campaign for Remain in any second EU referendum.

Diane Abbott: Corbyn will 'follow what the party says' in a second EU referendum

Julie Wilson Nimmo. Picture: Contributed

My Festival: Julie Wilson Nimmo
"Worst thing that ever happened to me at the Fringe was that we did a show here the year I graduated from drama school. One day we did it in front of an audienc...

Kirsty Young has now announced that she will not be returning to the long-running BBC Radio 4 show.

Kirsty Young steps down as host of Radio 4's Desert Island Discs

Bill Jamieson's cat Poosie Nansie has come down with Feline Brexit Psychosis

Bill Jamieson: Poosie and I are ready for our Brexit straitjackets

Broadcaster John Humphrys during a visit to Edinburgh. Picture: David Moir

John Humphrys: ‘I should have left Today programme years ago’

Special celebrity screening and discussion at Bo'ness Hippodrome for St Andrew's...

Kirsty Young has revealed she is suffering from a form of fibromyalgia, a long-term condition that causes pain all over the body.

Kirsty Young to leave Desert Island Discs due to pain disease

Comedy review: Alex Edelman: Just For Us, Pleasance Courtyard

Paul Merton is among those who will feature in the BBC's coverage of the Edinburgh festivals this year. Picture: JP Licence

BBC reveals TV and radio plans for Edinburgh Fringe coverage

BBC pay list will be ‘greatest work of fiction since Harry Potter’

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Who said it: Love Island contestant or Radio 4 presenter?

BBC Scotland studios in Glasgow. Pic by John Devlin

BBC targets 50/50 gender split in one year

Gary Oldman's appearance was transformed to enable him to look like Winston Churchill (Picture: Focus Features via AP)

Kirsty Gunn: Dangerous appeal of glamourising one version of history

Nicky Campbell.

BBC pay row: Nicky Campbell among stars taking pay cuts

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Comment: Grammar purists need to get with the program

Comedy review: Mae Martin: Dope

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

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