Scottish Review of Books

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The Scottish Review of Books Podcast amplifies the print and online offerings of Scotland’s critical quarterly. Episodes contain interviews with the magazine’s writers and editors, discussion of articles in new issues, original essays, and reporting from across Scotland’s cultural landscape.

Episodes

  1. The Lost Poets at the National Library of Scotland

    02/24/2020

    The Lost Poets at the National Library of Scotland

    The Lost Poets at the National Library of Scotland by Scottish Review of Books

    5h 19m
  2. Emerging Critics Season 2, 2018: Opening Seminar

    05/10/2018

    Emerging Critics Season 2, 2018: Opening Seminar

    This is a recording of the opening seminar for the second season of the Scottish Review of Books Emerging Critics Programme, held at the National Library of Scotland in April 2018. Jan Rutherford chaired the event, which features contributions from Alan Taylor, Rosemary Goring, Alan Bett, and Laura Waddell. The programme is supported by Creative Scotland and the recording was made by the National Library of Scotland with full permission of all involved.

    2h 11m

  3. 03/05/2018

    Muriel Spark: The Crème de la Crème

    This is a recording of Muriel Spark, the Crème de la Crème, an event presented by the Edinburgh International Book Festival in association with publisher Birlinn Limited and the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. It was held at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh on 31st January 2018 to celebrate the centenary of Muriel Spark’s birth. The event is introduced by Nick Barley, Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, and is hosted by Alan Taylor, Editor of the Scottish Review of Books and Rosemary Goring, Literary Editor of the Herald. The event was supported by Creative Scotland and recorded with the kind permission of all participants.

    1h 43m
  4. Episode 5 – Emerging Critics, part 5 – Dave Coates

    04/10/2017

    Episode 5 – Emerging Critics, part 5 – Dave Coates

    Kristian Kerr talks with Emerging Critics mentor Dave Coates about expanding review coverage to include a variety of voices, challenging our conscious and unconscious biases as readers and writers, connections between academic and journalistic literary criticism, and the knotty issue of money.

    31 min
  5. Episode 4 – Emerging Critics, part 4 – Keeping the reader’s attention

    03/29/2017

    Episode 4 – Emerging Critics, part 4 – Keeping the reader’s attention

    In this episode David Robinson tells Kristian Kerr about his first meeting with his four mentees, who have been writing reviews of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. Discussion topics include writing for the public, keeping a reader’s attention, reading each other’s work and being confident without being glib.

    21 min
  6. Episode 3 – Emerging Critics, part 3 – Kaite Welsh

    03/15/2017

    Episode 3 – Emerging Critics, part 3 – Kaite Welsh

    Kristian Kerr talks with Emerging Critics mentor and Creative Scotland Literature Officer Kaite Welsh. Kaite offers perspectives on reviewing for print and online platforms and the complementary relationship between the two. Other areas of conversation include pitching to editors and the editorial process; book vlogging and the old chestnut of books coverage on TV; criticism within in the literary ecosystem and its economic realities.

    28 min
  7. Episode 2 – Emerging Critics, part 2 – Rosemary Goring

    03/07/2017

    Episode 2 – Emerging Critics, part 2 – Rosemary Goring

    This conversation with Literary Editor Rosemary Goring offers perspective on the current practice of reviewing. Rosemary and Kristian discuss criticism as surgical and precise as well as being more broadly diagnostic of the health of a culture. The conversation ranges across the health of the profession too, and Rosemary reflects on the changes in the commissioning of reviews that she’s seen across her career and on hope for the future.

    25 min
  8. Episode 1 – Emerging Critics, part 1 – An Introduction

    02/01/2017

    Episode 1 – Emerging Critics, part 1 – An Introduction

    Editor Alan Taylor and Kristian Kerr discuss the Emerging Critics Programme, a partnership between the SRB and Creative Scotland, established to mentor new voices in cultural criticism. Topics include the state of criticism in Scotland today, the centrality of newspapers to cultural commentary, how we might adopt and adapt to new formats – all with a liberal sprinkling of anecdotes from the annals of Scottish reviewing. This is the first episode in the Emerging Critics Miniseries.

    51 min
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The Scottish Review of Books Podcast amplifies the print and online offerings of Scotland’s critical quarterly. Episodes contain interviews with the magazine’s writers and editors, discussion of articles in new issues, original essays, and reporting from across Scotland’s cultural landscape.

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  • Creator
    Scottish Review of Books
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2020
  • Episodes
    8
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © All rights reserved
  • Show Website
    Scottish Review of Books