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Opera North: Ruddigore (7–9 Jun)

Opera North brings to life Gilbert and Sullivan's melodramatic story of witches, maidens and curses from beyond the grave.

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Para Handy

Para Handy

Nosalgic escapism to the fore in stage adaptation of Neil Munro's popular sea-faring stories

21 Oct 2011

It’s over a century since Neil Munro first regaled readers of the Glasgow Evening News with the adventures of Para Handy and his crew aboard the Vital Spark. John Bett’s stage adaptation (with original songs and music by composer Robert Pettigrew…

New stage adaption of Para Handy stories set for Scottish tour

New stage adaptation of Para Handy stories set for Scottish tour

Writer and director John Bett on timeless appeal of Neil Munro tale

16 Sep 2011

My Skye granny was an inveterate haunter of provincial auction houses and would often return home with baskets of books which nobody wanted and which a wily auctioneer had partnered with household items of more immediate interest to buyers. These books…

Neil Munro - The New Road (1914)

Neil Munro - The New Road (1914)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

The image of writers struggling unrecognised in their own lifetime only to be canonised long after their remains have been consigned to paupers' graves is a familiar one. Perhaps we should pity poor Neil Munro (born 1863) whose literary career took the…

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