Bill Siret was born in 1929 and served in Palestine 1947-8, an experience which greatly influenced him. Some of this was explored in his poem Apology To The Palestine People.
This new play is written by Eric Schlosser, the US-based historian and writer best known for Fast Food Nation, his exposé of the fast food industry.
This exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s prints spans almost his entire career of over 70 years.
The new International Slavery Museum in Liverpool quotes prominently the former slave William Prescott asking us to "remember not that we were freed, but that we fought".
12.08 East of Bucharestdirected by Corneliu Porumboiuout now How deep were the Eastern European revolutions of 1989 against the Stalinist dictatorships? That’s the question asked in 12.08 East Of Bucharest, a new film by director/writer Corneliu Porumboiu.
The penultimate Inspector Rebus crime thriller, The Naming of the Dead, is set in Edinburgh and Gleneagles during the week of protests at the G8 summit in early July 2005, when the enormous Make Poverty History (MPH) march took place.
It’s the final performance of a new play. One of the main performers has never acted before, but he’s doing really well. Then, in the middle of the show, his mobile rings.
The Spanish Civil War by Andy DurganPalgrave, £14.50 Andy Durgan has written a short but incisive history of the Spanish Civil War.
Year on year the Edinburgh Festival seems to be increasingly dominated by cheap, disposable culture.
In A Disappearing Number – Complicite’s much anticipated new producation – the mathematician GH Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in the chilly English surroundings of Cambridge during the First World War.
Decent science documentaries are few and far between these days. They have been a prominent casualty of the commercialisation and cost-cutting that has hit the television industry.
East London rapper Lethal Bizzle’s superb new album Back To Bizznizz defies easy categorisation – and it certainly can’t simply be filed under "grime".
