Talks & lectures

Fiona Bruce and the BBC's team of experts descend on Scone Palace for this valuation day. Take along your heirlooms and car boot discoveries to see if you have a dusty treasure on your hands.

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…

SUNDAY 27 OCTOBER Weekend events from 10am The Pill. Rebellion. Experimentation. Protest. Civil Rights. This weekend we look at the Vietnam protests, pop art, social change, the anti-nuclear movement, civil rights, the Profumo affair, Skiffle, the Beatles and maverick composers including Frank Zappa, Stockhausen…

SATURDAY 26 – SUNDAY 27 OCTOBER Weekend events from 10am The Pill. Rebellion. Experimentation. Protest. Civil Rights. This weekend we look at the Vietnam protests, pop art, social change, the anti-nuclear movement, civil rights, the Profumo affair, Skiffle, the Beatles and maverick composers including Frank…

A talk and discussion of the 1SCOTS and their time spent recently in Afghanistan.

The Fringe Society chats with actors at the top of their game. Hear how they started, their career highs and lows, what they would do differently. Previous guests include Miriam Margolyes, George Wendt and Anthony Rapp.

Painter Frederic Edwin Church travelled to Newfoundland and Labrador in 1859 and made some of the most awe-inspiring images of icebergs ever painted; his 1861 The Icebergs is but the most monumental. Maritime historian Trevor Ware discusses Church's work.

Join Alasdair Gray, Scottish author and artist most acclaimed for his first novel Lanark, which was described as 'one of the landmarks of 20th-century fiction' by the Guardian. Join him here, in conversation with the BBC’s Head of the Arts, Jonty Claypole. Gray has been described by Will Self as 'a great writer…

The amiable bushcraft expert shares stories from his three decades roughing it in the bush.

The historian and writer discusses her classic autobiography of Mary, Queen of Scots, published more than 40 years ago.

A day full of activities in celebration of the troops, including concerts, a flypast by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and meet and greets with current and former RAF members.

Professor of Epistemics Jon Oberlander, Professor of Composition and Electroacoustic Composition Peter Nelson, and Chris Speed of the Edinburgh College of Art discuss historical, conceptual and philosophical relationships between the performing arts and technology. Chaired by theatre specialist Olga Taxidou.

Leonardo is celebrated as both an inspired artist and anatomist. This special event considers how contemporary artists, performers and scientists are informed by each other’s work in their exploration of the human body. Part of the Clod Ensemble’s Performing Medicine programme in collaboration with Wellcome Trust.

Ângela Ferreira discusses her exhibition Political Cameras with curator Filipa Oliveria.

Presenter of the Today Programme for almost 20 years, James Naughtie talks about his career in political journalism and touches on his passion for music, giving an insight into his interesting life.

A showcase of short films by local film directors followed by discussion.

Yoga, health, wellbeing, detox and anti-aging advice for women with workshops, talks and dinners throughout the week.

Jera May, founder of the Just Glass Society, asks ‘What is craft now?’ and looks at the range of work that exists between the hand-made and the digitally crafted. Booking is essential.

Brian Baglow hosts this talk on the burgeoning Scottish gaming industry. Learn more about some of the 80 game companies located in Scotland, see some games in action and find out how developers are working with TV and film companies on licensed products. Followed by a Q&A.

A detailed talk with the Historic Scotland Rangers Service followed by an easy walk around the palace and loch to look and listen for bats.