by Scots Radio | Nov 21, 2020 | News
We’re fair trickit tae congratulate Douglas Stuart on his novel “Shuggie Bain” winnin the Booker Prize 2020. Inspired bi his ain bairnhood, it’s aboot growin up in Glesga as a wee lad in the 1980s in Cooncil hoosin in the time o Thatcher, wi a...
by Andrew Davidson | Oct 28, 2020 | News
It his jist bin announced that Professor Wilson McLeod, Professor o Gaelic in the Scottish Studies Department o the University of Edinburgh, his received the Fletcher of Saltoun Award for Contribution to Public Life. The Saltire Society celebrates fowk fa hiv made...
by Andrew Davidson | Oct 22, 2020 | News
A huge congratulations gaes oot tae Lesley Riddoch for bein announced as the first o six recipients o The Saltire Society’s 2020 Fletcher of Saltoun Awards. Lesley, fa his received the award for Contribution to Public Life, is an award winnin broadcaster, journalist,...
by Andrew Davidson | Sep 29, 2020 | News
Hands Up for Trad’ Scots Language awards for 2019 were held this time last year at the Mitchell Theatre, Glasgow. Nae only did the Doric Film Festival win Best Scots Project of the Year but Frieda Morrison also won ‘Scots Spikker o the Year’!...
by Andrew Davidson | Sep 18, 2020 | News
The Doric Film Festival is back an is looking for submissions for the virtual festival tae be held in Spring 2021. The format his changed a bitty ess time roun. Nine films o 5 mins lang on the theme ‘Jist Faar I Bide’ will be commissioned for the festival...
by Andrew Davidson | Sep 10, 2020 | News
An introductory course is being set up at Aberdeen University to introduce students to North East Scots or Doric. The course will explore North East Culture – both written and oral…and help students develop their oral and written skills. It has been set up by PHd...
