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Scots Whay Hae!Karen Campbell - This Bright LifeFor the latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast Ali caught up with writer Karen Campbell to talk about her latest novel This Bright Life, which will be published later this month with Canongate Books.Karen gives a synopsis of the novel before breaking down the three central characters of Gerard, Margaret and Claire and their role in events, why it had to be set in Glasgow, and, more widely, the importance of place.The two then talk about Karen's novels more generally (this is her ninth), the themes and ideas which interest her, writing about people...2025-03-1155 min
Scotland OutdoorsLewis Grassic Gibbon, Snowdrops and a Beaver MOTAuchnerran Farm is run by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust as a demonstration farm to test and trial conservation and land management strategies. Mark visits the farm to hear about their projects and how they manage these alongside a profitable enterprise of sheep farming.It is the 20th anniversary of the opening of Five Sister’s Zoo this year, and the facility has grown from very small beginnings to now housing over 160 species on site in West Calder. Rachel chats to Brian and Gary Curran about their growth over the last two decades and their recent at...2025-02-151h 23Scotland OutdoorsSunset Song - Exploring The Mearns - Part 2The 7th February 2025 marks 90 years since the death of Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, author of Sunset Song. In 2016, it was voted Scotland's favourite novel. In this archive programme, Mark Stephen explores the area it was set in, the Mearns.2025-02-1229 minScotland OutdoorsWater of Leith Otters, Salmon Fishing on the River Tweed and a Famous North East CowThe National Farmers Union of Scotland Conference has been underway this week, and Kevin Keane is there, joined by Professor Colin Campbell from the James Hutton Institute, to hear his advice on how farms can become more resilient in the face of climate change.Muiravonside, Falkirk’s only country park, features several attractions, from a sculpture and poetry trail to the Avon aqueduct. Rachel catches up with the park’s ranger, Claire Martin, to hear about the history and appeal of the estate.Otters have been making a comeback along the Water of Leith, deep in t...2025-02-081h 23Scotland OutdoorsSunset Song - Exploring the Mearns - Part 1The 7th February 2025 marks 90 years since the death of Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, author of Sunset Song. In 2016, it was voted Scotland's favourite novel. In this archive programme, Mark and Euan explore the area it was set in, the Mearns.2025-02-0526 min
Our Scotland: A Fantasy 24 Hours in ScotlandS3E11 Literary traveller Constance Ray (Lewis, Cruden Bay, Slains Castle and Bram Stoker's Dracula, Edinburgh's literary connections)My name is Alison Fraser and I love all things Scotland, the people, the food, the music and the places and my guests are people just like me.
In this episode I’m joined by literary travel writer Constance Ray.
Constance is from the US but is living in Germany. She did undergraduate studies in English literature and had the opportunity to study in London for a semester.
She’s currently based in Europe where she started her literary travel blog. She says she belie...2024-12-0944 min
Ecos a 10.000 kilómetrosS11E04 - En el que nos enfadamos con la nadaINTRODUCCIÓN
LIBROS
00:01:40 La novia de Aquiles (Alki Zei)
00:04:05 Los parques de atracciones también cierran (Ángeles Caballero)
00:06:40 La riada & El dique. Blackwater #1 & #2(Michael McDowell)
00:11:35 La idea de ti (Amaya Ascunce)
00:14:40 Nido de nobles (Iván Turgenev)
00:16:35 La montaña mágica (Thomas Mann)
00:19:30 Cosmo en el espacio (Javi de Castro)
00:21:25 Granito gris. Trilogía escocesa #3 (Lewis Grassic Gibbon)
PELÍCULAS
00:24:10 Rastros de sándalo
00:28:10 Wish
00:29:55 Robot Dreams
00:32:30 La verdad contra Alex Jones
00:35:00 Laura Pausini: un placer conocerte
00:36:45 La red antisocial
00:38:30 La loca y el feminista
00:40:40 El maestro que prometió el mar
00:42:45 Un deseo irlandés
00:45:00 ¿Qué hizo Jennifer?
00:47:15 El favor
00:48:4...2024-04-241h 31Ecos a 10.000 kilómetrosS11E03 - En el que demasiado dramaPRESENTACIÓN
LIBROS
00:02:40 El silencio y la cólera (Pierre Lemaitre)
00:05:00 Tess de los d’Uberville (Thomas Hardy)
00:07:10 Dioses eléctricos (Katee Robert)
00:10:20 Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (Mariana Enríquez)
00:12:40 Soy friki y tengo novia (Andrés Palomino)
00:13:25 Plegarias atendidas (Truman Capote)
00:15:10 La abadía de Northanger (Jane Austen)
00:17:20 La chica que vive al final del camino (Laird Koenig)
00:19:20 Esclavos del trabajo (Daria Bogdanska)
00:21:10 Valle de nubes (Lewis Grassic Gibbon)
00:22:35 Cuando el trabajo mata (Gregory Mardon)
00:25:20 El vientre de París. Los Rougon-Macquart #3 (Émile Zola)
00:28:05 Deberes: Fortuna (Hernán Díaz)
PELÍCULAS
00:31:15 Siete mesas de billar francés
00:33...2024-03-301h 28
The Book AlchemistThe Book Alchemist with Heather Suttie and Colin McCredieColin McCredie is an acclaimed actor, big music lover and recent wearer of spectacles.We discuss growing up in Perth, landing dream film roles, his work on the iconic TV show Taggart and the books he loves. This includes:Mayflies by Andrew O'HagenSunset Song by Lewis Grassic GibbonThe Crow Road by Iain BanksForensics by Val McDermidBilly Sloan's One Love One LifeMemoirs by Thomas Dolby, Brett Anderson, Johnny MarrO'Brother by John NivenThe Secret History by Donna TarttA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens2024-02-1531 min
Get New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of AgeSunset Song & Cloud Howe: Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations from A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic GibbonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702599to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Sunset Song & Cloud Howe: Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations from A Scots Quair
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Narrator: Gordon Brandie, Bridget Mccann, Amy Manson, Lesley Hart, Liam Brennan, Finn Den Hertog, Robin Laing, Full Cast
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Release date: February 8, 2024
Genres: Coming of Age
Publisher's Summary:
Full-cast BBC adaptations of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic Scottish novel and its sequel - plus a bonus programme about the story's evocative setting Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon is best-known for A Scots Quair, a trilogy of novels comprising...2024-02-094h 14
New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of AgeSunset Song & Cloud Howe: Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations from A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic GibbonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702599 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunset Song & Cloud Howe: Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations from A Scots Quair Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon Narrator: Gordon Brandie, Bridget Mccann, Amy Manson, Lesley Hart, Liam Brennan, Finn Den Hertog, Robin Laing, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 8, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Full-cast BBC adaptations of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic Scottish novel and its sequel - plus a bonus programme about the story's evocative setting Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon is best-known for A Scots Quair, a trilogy of novels...2024-02-0905 minListen To The Most Uplifting Full Audiobook Today!Sunset Song & Cloud Howe: Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations from A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic GibbonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702599to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Sunset Song & Cloud Howe: Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations from A Scots Quair
Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Narrator: Gordon Brandie, Bridget Mccann, Amy Manson, Lesley Hart, Liam Brennan, Finn Den Hertog, Robin Laing, Full Cast
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Release date: February 8, 2024
Genres: Coming of Age
Publisher's Summary:
Full-cast BBC adaptations of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic Scottish novel and its sequel - plus a bonus programme about the story's evocative setting Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon is best-known for A Scots Quair, a trilogy of novels comprising...2024-02-084h 14
Librorum#170 LO MEJOR Y LO PEOR DE 2023¡He vuelto! Gracias por estar ahí, gracias por escuchar este audio y gracias por estos dos meses en los que yo me he tomado vacaciones y en los que tú has seguido presente en las redes sociales de Librorum.
Una vez estrenado el 2024 y pasadas ya las Fiestas, toca echar la vista atrás para ver qué tal se dio el año pasado en cuestión de libros y eventos literarios y qué es lo que quiero del año que acaba de empezar, con un TBR del mes de enero calentito.
Espero qu...2024-01-1038 min
Escuchando PeliculasSUNSET SONG (2015) #Romance #Drama #peliculas #audesc #podcastPaís
eino Unido
Dirección
Terence Davies
Guion
Terence Davies. Novela: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Reparto
Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie
Música
Gast Waltzing
Fotografía
Michael McDonough
Sinopsis
Un relato épico e intimista sobre la esperanza, la tragedia y el amor ambientado a principios de la Gran Guerra (1914-1918). Se trata de una adaptación de la novela del autor escocés Lewis Grassic Gibbon.2023-10-032h 07
Sons Podcasts#160 LOS LIBROS DE LOS QUE NO TE HABLÉ… LECTURAS DE VACACIONES Y EL GRAN TBR DE FINAL DE AÑOPara muchos y para muchas, septiembre es el mes en el que ya nos hemos despedido de las vacaciones de verano; el mes de la vuelta al cole y el mes de hacerse propósitos. Y eso es lo que vais a encontrar en este episodio: un repaso a los libros que leí durante mis vacaciones y una lista de próximas lecturas muy ambiciosa, en la que os cuento qué me gustaría leer en estos tres últimos meses de 2023.
Como siempre, agradezco que estéis ahí y os deseo unas felices lecturas...2023-09-1529 minLibrorum#160 LOS LIBROS DE LOS QUE NO TE HABLÉ… LECTURAS DE VACACIONES Y EL GRAN TBR DE FINAL DE AÑOPara muchos y para muchas, septiembre es el mes en el que ya nos hemos despedido de las vacaciones de verano; el mes de la vuelta al cole y el mes de hacerse propósitos. Y eso es lo que vais a encontrar en este episodio: un repaso a los libros que leí durante mis vacaciones y una lista de próximas lecturas muy ambiciosa, en la que os cuento qué me gustaría leer en estos tres últimos meses de 2023.
Como siempre, agradezco que estéis ahí y os deseo unas felices lecturas...2023-09-1529 min
The Translated Chinese Fiction PodcastEp 91 - Yu Xiuhua and Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm with Fiona Sze-Lorrain‘The “exquisite bridges and flowing water” one finds in poetry are not written by real farmers, but those who claim to love rural life when they most fear it.’In the ninety first episode of the Translated Chinese Podcast, we are travelling half across China to pod you. The writer in question is rural/online star Yu Xiuhua and my guest is her translator, the thoughtful and particular Fiona Sze-Lorrain. The art in question is Yu’s collection of poems and essays Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm (月光落在左手上 - yuèguāng luò zài zuǒshǒu shàng), but spare also a tho...2023-06-301h 15
blauschwarzberlin - Der Literaturpodcastblauschwarzberlin. Der Literaturpodcast Folge #50Zum Indiebookday 2023, unserer 50. Folge!, sprachen wir sehr schnell über:
Kerstin Becker: Das gesamte hunrige Dunkel ringsum. Edition Azur
Julia Friese: MTTR. Wallstein Verlag
Helen Wolff: Hintergrund für Liebe. Weidle
Rebecca Buxton & Lisa Whiting (Hg.): Philosophinnen. (übersetzt von Roberta Schneider, Daniel Beskos & Nefeli Kavouras) Mairisch.
Jean-Luc Nancy: Vom Schlaf. (Aus dem Französischen übersetzt von Esther von den Osten) Diaphanes
Dino Pešut: Daddy Issues (übersetzt von Alida Bremer) Text/Rahmen
Ling Ma: New York Ghost. (übersetzt von Zoë Beck) CulturBooks
Eva Tepest: Power Bottom. März
Qiu Miaojin: Aufzeichnungen eines Krokodils. (übersetzt von Martina Hasse) Ulrike Helmer Verlag
Jo Frank: Gewa...2023-04-011h 28
Chatting LitArchie ThornFor anyone who's ever wondered what happens when you put two teachers who are also book lovers together, this one's for you! I'm joined by Archie Thorn, author of Home Time Blues, a fantastic book set in a high school in Scotland, which looks at many themes; the failure of education to inspire children; the impact a job you don't like can have on personal relationships; unsympathetic management cultures and more. We discuss these topics, what literature is on the Scottish curriculum, the debate as to whether or not Scots is a language or form of dialect and more!2022-04-041h 09
Houston tenemos una boda_ Podcast bodas en España81 Especial : anécdotas de boda en 2021Anécdotas y más anécdotas... historias de libro, sorprendentes, emocionantes o divertidas, pero seguro que de todas ellas podemos sacar algún aprendizaje.
Y ya que en este especial 2021 hablamos de historias "de libro", en esta ocasión, tenemos la super alegría de contar como patrocinador con la editorial @trotalibros , especializada en recuperar grandes obras de la literatura injustamente olvidadas, y que nos encanta por muuuuuchos motivos, y uno de ellos es que su editor es un futuro novio Ensu. Así pues, Trotalibros regalará un ejemplar de un libro a quien... luego os lo contamos.
Y como siempre...2022-02-0457 min
Tras los librosEp 24. Estrenando el 2022 con buenas lecturasQué mejor forma de empezar el año que con buenas lecturas... hoy repasamos los libros de estas semanas y los que nos han llegado vía Reyes Magos ;)
Libros de la semana:
Itziar:
Cómo vencí mi hipotiroidismo de la A a la Z, Montse Reus.La noche espiritual, Lydie DattasEl final de affaire, Graham Greene
Esther:
Canción del ocaso, de Lewis Grassic GibbonLa señora Dalloway, de Virginia WoolfLa muerte de Iván Ilich, de Leo Tolstói
Citas
Lecturas de El final del affaire y Canción d...2022-01-1437 minLibrorum#107 ÉRASE UNA VEZ 2021: RESUMEN DEL AÑO Y TOP DE MEJORES LECTURAS¡Feliz Año Nuevo, oyentes de Librorum! Bienvenidos y bienvenidas al primer episodio del podcast de 2022, en el que, como ya es tradición, me dedico a echar la vista atrás y hacer un resumen y un balance de cómo me ha tratado el pasado año en cuestión de lecturas. Y cómo no, incluyo un top de los 10 libros que más me han gustado de esos 12 meses que ya han pasado.
TÍTULOS MENCIONADOS:
–Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold
–Brujerías, Terry Pratchett
–Cada corazón un umbral...2022-01-1026 min
ÜberübersetzenFolge 13 - Arbeit auf AugenhöheEin Gespräch mit dem Verleger Sebastian Guggolz über Interpretation, Konvention, warum unterschiedliche Übersetzungen auf den Text selbst einwirken.
In unserer aktuellen Folge kommt ein Verleger zu Wort: Sebastian Guggolz verlegt ausschließlich Neuübersetzungen aus Ost- und Nordeuropa. Von Anfang an arbeitete er mit erfahrenen Übersetzer:innen zusammen, hört ihnen zu und stöbert nicht nur in Antiquariaten nach vergessenen Autor:innen, sondern lässt sich von Übersetzer:innen ihre Geheimtipps verraten. Der Erfolg und die Auszeichnung des Guggolz Verlags zeigen, wie wichtig es ist, mit Übersetzenden auf Augenhöhe zu arbeiten. Und warum Lektor:innen und Journalist:i...2021-09-3046 min
Café con Vistas - Cómo Quemar un LibroCómo quemar un libro - Recomendaciones de marzoLuci Romero nos recomienda los siguientes títulos:
- Trigo limpio, de Juan Manuel Gil (Seix Barral)
- Niadela, de Beatriz Montañez (Errata Naturae)
- Los ojos cerrados, de Edurne Portela (Galaxia Gutenberg)
- La parábola del sembrador, de Octavia E. Butler (Capitán Swing)
- La edad de la piel, de Dubravka Ugresic (Impedimenta)
- Canción del ocaso, de Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Totralibros)2021-03-2916 min
The Culture Perth & Kinross PodcastSeason 3: Episode 9 - Jan Hay and the five books that mapped her lifeIn the ninth episode of the Culture Perth and Kinross podcast, Perth Librarian, Elaine Blair sits down with Reading Development Officer Jan Hay, to discuss 5 Books That Mapped Out Her Life
The five books Jan has chosen were:
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman.
The Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King.
A Culture Perth and Kinross library membership is completely free and you can join online
https://www.culturepk.org.uk/libraries/join-the-library/
Don...2020-06-1208 min
Suite (212)The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist QuestionModernism in the arts, and particularly literature, has often been portrayed as a middle class pursuit, with certain literary critics focusing on the ‘elitism’ of the movement. But does this give a true picture of its social composition?
This week, Tom Overton talks to Nick Hubble about their new book The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (https://euppublishingblog.com/2017/09/07/proletarian-modernism/), and about how the General Strike of 1926 (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/writing-the-1926-general-strike/41A4BEF1FB2C099EEEFD60A5F14C0B80), the Equal Franchise Act 1928 and the Great Depression shaped working class forms of modernism during the...2019-04-091h 00
Damian Barr's Literary SalonEXCLUSIVE: Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon talks books with Damian Barr at WigtownThis intimate discussion made headlines around the world as Sturgeon revealed she's writing a diary which she may publish.
In an intimate conversation with Damian Barr she reveals the books that shaped her as a person and a politician, from Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 'Sunset Song' to 'The Colour Purple' by Alice Walker, and recommends some reading for President Trump.
Recorded live at Wigtown Book Festival in September 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2018-09-2557 minThe Literary SalonEXCLUSIVE: Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon talks books with Damian Barr at WigtownThis intimate discussion made headlines around the world as Sturgeon revealed she's writing a diary which she may publish.
In an intimate conversation with Damian Barr she reveals the books that shaped her as a person and a politician, from Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 'Sunset Song' to 'The Colour Purple' by Alice Walker, and recommends some reading for President Trump.
Recorded live at Wigtown Book Festival in September 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2018-09-2557 min
Saturday ReviewSunset Song, Funny Girl, Edna O'Brien, Big Bang Data, What a PerformanceSunset Song is Terence Davies' first film for a decade - telling Lewis Grassic Gibbon's tale of northern Scottish farming and family before and after the First World War.
Sheridan Smith takes the role of actress Fanny Brice in the first London production of Funny Girl for 50 years. Made famous by Barbra Streisand on stage and screen, they're big shoes to fill and the current run of shows is already sold out, is it any good?
Edna O'Brien's latest novel The Little Red Chairs places a major war criminal in a small Irish village and ghastly violence comes with...2015-12-0541 min
Humanities ViewpointsScottish Literature and Scottish IndependenceMy guest is Ryan Shirey, Director of the Writing Center and Assistant Teaching Professor in the Writing Program at Wake Forest University as well as a scholar of Scottish literature. He has written and presented on a number of topics related to Scottish literature, most recently contributing a chapter on John Buchan’s use of dialect Scots in his poetry for the edited collection: /John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity/. He has another chapter forthcoming for the Association for Scottish Literary Studies companion to the work of Scottish novelist Lewis Grassic Gibbon.He offers his thoughts on th...2014-09-1719 min
Grab the Essential Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Westerns & WarSunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Gerda StevensonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/395502 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunset Song Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Gerda Stevenson Narrator: Lesley Hart, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 53 minutes Release date: May 1, 2013 Genres: Westerns & War Publisher's Summary: Gerda Stevenson's dramatisation of the 1932 novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, set in north-east Scotland before and during the First World War. Episode 1: Chris Guthrie is torn between her love of the land and her ambition to become a teacher. As Chris' domineering father struggles with the harshness of the land, her mother's fear of childbirth leads her to despair. A full...2013-05-0105 min
Desert Island Discs: Archive 2000-2005Peggy SeegerSue Lawley's castaway is folk singer-songwriter Peggy Seeger.Favourite track: The Air from Suite No 3 in D Major by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Luxury: Banjo with plastic head with an inexhaustible supply of strings & pegs2001-07-0833 min
Desert Island DiscsPeggy SeegerSue Lawley's castaway is folk singer-songwriter Peggy Seeger.Favourite track: The Air from Suite No 3 in D Major by Johann Sebastian Bach
Book: A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Luxury: Banjo with plastic head with an inexhaustible supply of strings & pegs2001-07-0833 min