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“I’m interested in history because it informs the present and can help guide how we respond to the future. I’m not interested in history for history’s sake, or heritage for heritage’s sake. What interests me are the stories they tell us about who we are and how we got here.”

I was invited to talk with Open Road recently for their ‘We’ve been talking to…’ blog series, and had a great chat with Dr Lucy Stroud about who I am (ain’t that a difficult one…), what I do, what stories I think are important to preserve from the past, and what I hope for the future.

Open Road are a great organisation, pulling together stories, places, and communities.

You can find out more about Open Road and read the interview here.

Fields of Meaning

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The latest podcast from the postgraduate community at Aberdeen University’s School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture where I interview author Eden Unger Bowditch with fellow creative writer Jane Hughes.

Eden talks about her novel in progress Two-Hundred-and-Fifty Years at Home and her thesis Fields of Meaning which examines the role of ambiguity in the literary text. You can listen to it through clicking on the image above or find it on your preferred podcast platform.

Scotland Outdoors

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Back in March 2022 I was invited to talk with Helen Needham of BBC Radio Scotland about place, about time, and my approach to the landscape. We took a walk up an often over-looked hill in Aberdeenshire that has been the focus and the start-point of my writing about landscape and how it shapes us. In this episode you can join us as we explore the hill and its histories, and listen to the conversation that resulted.

Download the podcast here.

Or you can listen to it on BBC Radio Sounds.

Echtrai Edition 1 – Live Online Launch.

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Echtrai Edition 1 – AnMór Studio

Delighted to be taking part in the live launch event for Echtrai Edition 1, hosted by Helen Needham of BBC Radio Scotland on 09th February 2022 at 7 pm alongside some amazing company. Details for the event and tickets are available here through Eventbrite. I will be reading an extract from my piece ‘The Stones of Bourtie’.