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Mark Fisher meets two stars of TV taking time out to perform an unknown play in the smaller theatres

He is one of Scotland's most successful and versatile actors yet one role has defined his career.

He is one of Scotland's most successful and versatile actors yet one role has defined his career.

Sail into the silver screen with the 10 best TV and film locations to cruise in the UK and Ireland, as chosen by Yachting Monthly experts

From Agatha Christie to Richard Osman, these books are not without seriousness but they are all set in warm and human worlds we might prefer to our own

A landmark tree that had been standing for more than half a century on the shores of one of Scotland’s most beautiful villages has become the latest casualty of this winter’s storms.

... on Ben y Vrackie taken during my afternoon walk.  Today has mainly been spent researching Robbins families in Dundee - it is interesting...

Who’s who in Mackenzie Crook’s new take on the scarecrow of Scatterbrook, featuring Paul Kaye and Steve Pemberton.

Desperate Housewives The first really massive TV hit of the Noughties. Yet it’s less well remembered that the portrait of secret suburbia was narrated by a ghost. Wisteria Lane resident Mary Alice killed herself in the pilot episode.  And it was her intimate knowledge of the tumultuous private lives of Eva Longoria and her neighbours Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross that gave the show a unique edge. It was Wisteria Lane resident Mary Alices intimate knowledge of the tumultuous...

Hot cuppa tea, blanket, cozy mystery, cat optional. Perfect. New to cozies? Well, let us introduce you to this crime fiction sub-genre whose sleuths are often amateurs and whose gritty crime and steamy sex generally take place tastefully out of sight. How very civilized! A cozy’s setting — often a small town stocked with eccentrics and at least one skeptical copper — is always a main character, like the English village of St. Mary Mead, where Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple so...