After 12pm, Talks & lectures

Researchers from the Social and Public Health Sciences Unit discuss health and sexual health and how they are represented in the media, followed by a Q&A.

Hear from the instantly recognisable but always believable actor about a life in film, from Begbie to Renard and beyond. Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival.

The author of This Is Where I Am talks about her book, which focuses on a refugee family, and speaks with Joe Brady and Wafa Shaheen of Refugee Council Scotland.

A troubadours' tour beginning at the library in GoMA and ending at Glasgow Green to watch the sunrise following a midnight ceremony of poetry and song.

Terry Jones (of writing, directing and Monty Python fame) talks about the possible reasons behind censorship in the Ellesmere manuscript, an early 15th century illuminated manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Monthly forum offering writers, poets, publishers, booksellers, librarians, creative writing students or anyone else with a literary interest the chance to get together socially to talk about books and publishing. First timers, please contact the organisers via the website.

The omnipresent guitarist Earl Slick, whose most recent project was David Bowie's The Next Day, discusses his new book.

Universal Quidem. Revealing, thought provoking and at times hilarious, BBC Radio 2 legend Johnnie Walker discovers the real person behind the celebrity. Famous for his years on pirate Radio Caroline and Radio's 1 and 2, Johnnie is regarded as one of the finest radio interviewers today. Now Johnnie escapes the studio…

Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival.

A whirlwind trip through the story of jazz, blues and swing from Richard Michael on piano, Colin Steele on trumpet and Gordon Mcneil on sax performing live exerts to bring the history alive. To be broadcast on BBC's Radio Scotland's The Jazz House.

Senior curator Francis Fowle explores the recently acquired painting by the leader of the Glasgow Boys. Booking is essential.

A look at the work of Janet Henderson, who helped to establish the organic, local sourcing and healthy eating scene here in Scotland, and a glance at the future of food culture in the country. Booking is essential.

Just as it's about to return home, Ed Hodge explores the history of the Ryder Cup from 1921 to the present day.

Fortnightly meetings of this friendly forum for learning and practising public speaking.

The historian discusses his book The Return of a King, a substantial and analytical new account of the first Afghan War.

Peter Abrahams, Professor of Clinical Anatomy at Warwick University, explores the value of Leonardo’s anatomical drawings as a tool for understanding the human body, and how closely the artist anticipated the range of imagery used by the medical profession today.

Prof Akbar Ahmed's The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam is the third volume in a triology looking at the post-9/11 relationship between the US and the Muslim world.

Science on the Fringe!? Yes! Science, controversy, myth-busting, debunking and debate all at the Fringe Festival. Featuring different speakers every night discussing the issues, evidence and controversies in everything from alternative medicine to Sharia law and beyond. This is our fourth year at the Fringe so we are…

Bright Club features its usual intoxicating blend of comedy and academia as lecturers from the city's universities turn their studies into entertaining stories.

Come and find out about participating in Brighton Fringe, England’s largest arts festival. For four weeks in May, Brighton is transformed with all types of performances in venues big and small. www.brightonfringe.org