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Siobhan Synnot

4 years

For the 75th anniversary of VJ day, I wrote about my mum, who was raised in a PoW camp in China by her amazing resourceful mother:

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Siobhan Synnot

@SiobhanSynnot

4 years

I'm sorry to harp on about this car trip while we wait to see if the Guardian or Mirror get to ask Cummings a question, but if I feel vision-impaired I'm not going to bundle my partner and kid into a car saying "let's see how this goes"

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4 years

He should probably mention that the day of the wholly unjustified trip to Barnard Castle was his wife's birthday.

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2 years

Someone might clue in Patrick Harvie that he's addressing a lifelong campaigner for green issues

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5 months

So sad to hear Brian McCardie has died. We met when he was a bonnie lad in Rob Roy, and he told me he'd been struggling with imposter syndrome on set. "Then after the first take, Liam Neeson leans over and says 'Brian, see over there? That is a light, and it is all for you'"

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2 years

The £80k+ Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary committee on LGBTQ+ issues could not find time to read an important independent review of trans healthcare and the NHS. Yes, it's supposed to be his field. No, he's not a details person

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John Nicholson MP - who is making strong claims about treatment of children with gender dysphoria - admits he hasn't read the interim Cass review, only the summary. Two out of two Mermaid witnesses have now admitted to not reading it properly in Mermaids v LGB Alliance.

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4 years

Maurice Roeves dies at 83: so brilliant in Tutti Frutti (and Solid Air, Young Winston, Last of the Mohicans..)

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@SiobhanSynnot

6 years

Fascinating account of a Hollywood scam, led by a woman able to impersonate some of the film industry's most successful women in order to cheat victims out of thousands of dollars.

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@SiobhanSynnot

9 months

RIP David Soul. Starsky and Hutch was such a moment in detective shows; younger and sexier than Columbo or Kojak. Also terrific in Jerry Springer -The Musical. Let us not talk of Silver Lady.

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Siobhan Synnot

@SiobhanSynnot

4 years

My mother has her own set of political values, and was on the radio as one of the few Scots still alive who had been interned in a Japanese PoW camp. 2020 has been a tough year for her: we recently lost her much-loved husband, but she's a courageous woman, as you heard, Colin.

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Siobhan Synnot

@SiobhanSynnot

10 years

Raise your game, The Art of Knitting: http://t.co/STnWh6YZs3

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Siobhan Synnot

@SiobhanSynnot

7 years

My favourite editor's note from the Milo Yiannopoulos' book:

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5 years

@MrMcEnaney Do you think this could be a point to hear from women about their concerns, rather than men making presumptuous statements on our behalf?

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6 years

Farewell BBC Film Programme. Throwing the show around midnight, and taking it off air before the Oscars, summer or big Xmas films didn't exactly help.

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@SiobhanSynnot

9 years

Eh wis at schule wi' Matthew Fitt. He was a braw, bricht bairn - but neither o' us wis spikkin' like this:

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Siobhan Synnot

@SiobhanSynnot

7 months

Very sad news that BBC Scotland presenter and children's author Nick Sheridan has died. Nick was a bright spot in any studio and an enthusiastic interviewer on air. Love and sympathy to his friends, family, and colleagues.

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6 years

I'm part of a film critic chat at @edfilmfest next Wed at 1730, and one talking point should be the howling absurdity of @TheGuardian commissioning an article about women film critics....written by a bloke, with NO female critics quoted:

Who needs film critics? Actually, we all do

Accusations of a lack of diversity among reviewers raises the bigger question of whether they have a role to play at all in the new landscape of cinema

www.theguardian.com

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5 years

@JamieDunnEsq Also people advocating violence against women. That's not a good look either, is it?

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@SiobhanSynnot

8 years

Unfortunately for Stewart Hosie and Angus MacNeil, Serena Cowdy's blog is a gift that delivers more often than Santa

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Siobhan Synnot

@SiobhanSynnot

6 years

Yes, no-one has ever done the story of Mary Queen of Scots, or Culloden. Or dramatised Sunset Song, or Roman centurions in Scotland. Or tackled Rob Roy, or the stealing of the Stone of Destiny, or Greyfriars Bobby, or James VI...

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9 months

Jack loved to recall the day he walked into a pub with Lesley Riddoch: she was tall with a froth of curly hair, he was a foot below her, wearing his usual hat. 'Jesus christ' said the barman. 'It's Simon and Garfunkel' Go well, dapper Jack

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Books of Scotland: Jack McLean - The Bedside Urban Voltaire (1990). A compilation of columns written by Jack McLean - aka The Urban Voltaire - for the Glasgow Herald and The Scotsman.

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6 years

Wee Scottish sidenote to the Bohemian Rhapsody film: the leather jacket he wears on his way to Live Aid was made specially by Galashiels family firm Aero. Also: before he joined Queen, Freddie Mercury used to work for Aero's founder Ken, when he had a stall in Kensington Market

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5 years

Today's Scotsman carries an account of the attack on Julie Bindel last night. It's appalling that the attacker has threatened violence against women before, yet abides on Twitter and has had views published online and in print.

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5 years

There's been a runaway train of wrongheaded outrage directed at Janice Forsyth today. She's a class act, doesn't do invective, and definitely knows her arts (her Lou Reed interview is one for the ages). Also, her dad is NOT Bill Forsyth 🤣🤣🤣 Or Bruce. Or Frederick.

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5 years

I'm admiring the way Huw Edwards is conducting an interview with Ann Widdecombe in the manner of someone trying to explain Bluetooth to the Amish

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5 years

I’m chatting to George Mackay, star of the hot movie 1917, live at #gff20 shortly for @BBCRSAfternoons , about his new film The True History of the Kelly Gang!

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6 years

@GeoffShadbold I'd a friend who carefully stacked all her old uni philosophy books into her bookshelf before a TV crew came round, but the cameraman wanted her to sit near a window instead. When the show went out at 9pm, she looked radiant, as did the family's pants on the radiator behind her

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Siobhan Synnot

@SiobhanSynnot

5 years

Things we learned from @JALowden at @edfilmfest *He has his own film company and really really wants a scottish film studio *He's turned down superhero roles *He would like Tom Hardy to be the next Bond *In Tommy's Honour, one golf putt took him 32 takes

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5 years

BBC Four is doing a history of Roxy Music with expert views from Sadie Frost and Gaz from Supergrass. This is the kind of music doc you get if the production company is given a tiny budget and sent around Islington for the day in a van.

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@SiobhanSynnot

7 years

However much the BBC is paying presenters, I'd pay more to keep Piers Morgan off their morning and evening telly

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@SiobhanSynnot

6 years

#strictly2018 continuing with its ploy of sending people to "drop by" on rehearsals with Seann and Katya

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4 months

This morning he was in BBC Scotland's Pacific Quay, doing interviews for Times Radio, Radio 4, Sky, BBC Breakfast and GB News. Yet a noshow for Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland, where he would certainly have faced detailed qs about Scotland. Terrible optics from his team.

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4 months

Keir Starmer heading north today, where he will argue “there is no changed Britain without Scotland"

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@SiobhanSynnot

1 year

@LauraEWebsterr The BBC accomodates a range of views. Unlike The National

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@SiobhanSynnot

1 year

@LauraEWebsterr You only platform from within your bubble of groupthink and ignore inconvenient stories. That is not professional journalism.

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@SiobhanSynnot

2 years

Bernard Cribbins was key to so many childhoods, from the Railway Children to the Wombles to Doctor Who.

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Siobhan Synnot

@SiobhanSynnot

6 years

Turning the glass over for scottish writer Kenneth Roy, who died this morning. A splendid challenger of received ideas and an eloquent journalist. Scottish Review carries his obit.

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1 year

Very sad the BBC is ending Doctors. It was already suffering from cutbacks but was a rare homegrown daytime series that wasn't a quiz, or about selling your house at prices three years out of date, or antiquing. Also: the genius hallucinatory ep where everyone was Joe Pasquale.

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@SiobhanSynnot

2 years

@robmcd85 There's a balance of security, efficiency & minimal disruption to the public. Worth mentioning that as PoW, he refused to travel until MoD shifted to sustainable aviation fuel. Should he take lessons from a ScotGreen who has abandoned six or seven major green manifesto promises?

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@SiobhanSynnot

4 years

@ManMadeMoon I interviewed him as a nervous apologetic young reporter, since I was the last of a long line of interviewers that day. ‘Oh no I love interviews’ he cried, throwing himself into a psychiatrist’s patient position on the couch ‘It’s a chance to talk more about ME’

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@SiobhanSynnot

4 years

And so ends any reputation Boris Johnson may have had for being able to read the room, or tap into the mood of the country

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@BBCNews

4 years

“I’ve concluded that in travelling to find the right kind of childcare... I think he followed the instincts of every father and every parent” PM Boris Johnson says Dominic Cummings acted “responsibly, legally and with integrity” Latest:

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@SiobhanSynnot

5 years

Best wishes to Kirsty Young, coping with fibromyalgia and now stepping away from Desert Island Discs.

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5 years

"Having hundreds of Castaways share their triumphs, tragedies, tribulations and tracks with me was a huge privilege." #DesertIslandDiscs

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@SiobhanSynnot

7 months

Which begs the question: what is the point of the rest of the BBC Scotland channel? There's some good stuff, but it's dominated by the weird idea that Scots have no appetite for history or arts and prefer a diet of daytime telly ideas, done badly.

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@BBCNews

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BBC Scotland to scrap news programme The Nine

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1 year

There's still time for Elton to pull something out of the hat. ‘My next special guest is a young talent I stumbled across a couple of years ago. Please welcome, direct from Belarus, Warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin’ #EltonJohn #Glastonbury23

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@SiobhanSynnot

6 years

My sister got a Misty annual today. This is the sort of useful instruction teen girls got in 1981. Merry Christmas everyone xx

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@SiobhanSynnot

8 years

Hosie: I was hoping this might die down, but maybe I should mention my health issues Nicola: Groin strain?

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@SiobhanSynnot

4 years

It's not *just* about trust. It's a series of decisions where the correct response should be "naw, best not" a) visit second house, instead of asking neighbours to check security b) take the family c) and the dug! d) let's stay over... e) and hit the beach!

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4 years

It turns out the police have visited the CMO’s home to discuss her actions. @5_News

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@SiobhanSynnot

9 years

Michelle Mone to guest edit @BBCWomansHour : Will there be an item about chinese sweatshops? Many more excellent scottish women available FFS

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@SiobhanSynnot

10 years

So, just nipped out to vote. Russell Brand keeps talking about a Prevailing Paradigm but I couldn't see that party on the list

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@SiobhanSynnot

5 months

Sorry to hear Bernard Hill of Blackstuff, Bellman and LoTR has died. We did a Q&A together; beforehand he was very unassuming & nervous, thinking he had no chat. Not true, and thanks to a warm Edinburgh audience, we ended up doing more than 90 mins about his amazing career.

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@SiobhanSynnot

8 years

@KennyFarq och, why would STV feel intimidated by chair of select cttee on Scottish affairs & member of select cttee that oversees them?

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@SiobhanSynnot

4 years

Scottish film making is going through a tough time at the moment, so good to chat to @RealMacKaySTV for the Sunday Mail about start of filming his first book on Lewis this week. Expect salon quality hair in one scene...

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Siobhan Synnot

@SiobhanSynnot

1 year

Better news: Mary Marquis alive- some appalling person hacked her son'a account. Delighted to see the love for Mary but even more delighted she is still with us

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2 years

‘Aberdeen is a great place to shoot. The pies alone are worth the trip’ Lovely chat with ⁦⁦ @jonsbaird ⁩ in today's Sunday Times - shooting Stonehouse for ITV, taking Tetris to Aberdeen, and support for the Belmont cinema

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@SiobhanSynnot

6 years

In the last hour we've had Piers Morgan and Nigel Farage on BBC1 talking about the Donald Trump they know and love on #bbcqt and #bbctw . In the interests of broadcast balance, audiences are overdue someone to talk about the Trump they know and loathe.

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@SiobhanSynnot

6 years

Scotland! Ever longed for your own Dick Van Dyke accent provocateur? Look no further than new film Under The Eiffel Tower The joy begins '33s in

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@SiobhanSynnot

3 years

I always think a fuzzy focus image and the kind of backdrop usually seen in hostage videos is an excellent start to a channel #gbnews

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@SiobhanSynnot

5 years

The real winner tonight is whoever landed the job of set design, and decided to take the piss #BBCOurNextPM

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@SiobhanSynnot

7 years

Stuff blue passports: Cadbury's have axed fingers of fudge from their selection boxes. Christmas is cancelled. *doorslam*

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@SiobhanSynnot

5 years

Farewell Franco Zeffirelli. We did an interview for his penultimate film Tea With Mussolini, so I asked what it was like working with Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright and Cher. "Mostly frightening," he said.

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@SiobhanSynnot

10 years

Hope Charles Kennedy's OK, & that folk mocking him on BBCQT never have to fight a disease. CK has had some dreadful losses; deserves support

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@SiobhanSynnot

5 years

Cheering to hear @Emmabarnett during this election campaign; she does her homework and challenges hard but can be playful too. (and seems to have been up working for the last 24 hours straight - nap well, missus)

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@SiobhanSynnot

6 years

A Scottish standalone screen agency is something I've been advocating for years. And they have to staff it with capable, experienced film people, not risk-averse bureaucrats, or it won't be worth the candle

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@SiobhanSynnot

5 years

Tiny indulgent point #Baftatv on Newsnight, it was Joan Bakewell who remembered the girl on work experience had studied Scots law, might be able to help out on an arcane legal point, and gave me my first ever TV credit.

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@SiobhanSynnot

1 year

@LauraEWebsterr You don't have a clue what my role is, Laura. But since you welcome my input, here's another tip: a Twitter account is a Twitter account

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@SiobhanSynnot

2 years

Dreadful news that Edinburgh Film Festival, Filmhouse and Belmont are in administration. This is awful for dedicated staff. Questions must be asked as to why Screen Scot has pulled the plug, scrutinising finances and staffing problems

Edinburgh International Film Festival to cease trading as parent ...

The Centre for the Moving Image (CMI) runs EIFF, Filmhouse Cinema and Café Bar in Edinburgh, and Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen.

www.screendaily.com

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@SiobhanSynnot

6 years

My column in the Sunday Times: why it's best to leave Braveheart's bowdlerised history to Netflix.

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@SiobhanSynnot

3 years

One of my weirdest interviews was Frank Oz as Miss Piggy, who was pulled out of her case to speak to me, even though it was radio, and turned out to be quite an armful. "Gosh, she's huge," I blurted, and she immediately narrowed her eyes. "What do you mean, HUGE?" said the pig.

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I honestly think the best job in the world ever was working with the Muppets in the 70s and 80s. The second best job is interviewing those who worked with the Muppets. Last week I got to interview the magnificent @TheFrankOzJam

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@SiobhanSynnot

7 years

My chat with Armando Iannucci in today's Sun Mail: why Trump isn't funny, subtitled swearing & voting in Scotland...

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@SiobhanSynnot

6 years

Just one example of the sort of journalism likely to be lost by Johnston Press going into administration It didn't fail because the paper published left/right or Yes/No views: it was stupid bosses taking out a massive loan they couldn't repay, and overpaying an incompetent board

Martyn McLaughlin

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EXCL @realDonaldTrump was refused £38m from Bank of Scotland as he tried to a buy flagship Scottish property & create his first overseas hotel. Trump allegedly asked the bank to foreclose on its owners & deal directly with him. My 6,000w investigation:

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2 years

This is a bit like when Gerard Butler ruled himself out of playing James Bond

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@PA

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. @MairiMcAllan has ruled herself out of running in the SNP leadership race ✍: Emma Lawson

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8 years

Smart, witty @KimCattrall at #edfilmfest : new series Sensitive Skin, Big Trouble in Little China, Polanski &Samantha

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10 months

As a vv new researcher, was awed by a jaunty Byrne tootling through the BBC, immaculate in tweed, on his way to an edit of Your Cheating Heart

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John Byrne leaves Scotland culturally richer. He gave us Tutti Frutti, The Slab Boys and so much wonderful imagery. It’s impossible to overstate how important he was as an artist. Sad he is gone but thankful for what he has given us.

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5 years

Oh wind your neck in Gareth, you daft bitter man. You have coasted along posting ridiculous, poisonous fibs for long enough now.

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@SiobhanSynnot

5 years

Sorry to see Freddie Jones go, and sympathy to his sons Toby and Rupert. Emmerdale passed me by, but his roles in Elephant Man, Dune and Wild At Heart did not. Also, from early on, Frankenstein Must be Destroyed!

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7 years

Look at the view from the "windows" on the Salmond Show set. The view from Julian Assange's broomcupboard has more charm.

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@SiobhanSynnot

5 years

Brian Cox once spent 30 mins telling me that potatoes were evil.

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Day after indyref when I was waiting to go on TV outside Holyrood & having a wobble, the fab actor Brian Cox came to rescue. Grabbed me by shoulders & said “The issues are not resolved. Focus.” Flummery about Theresa going is same. Issues havent changed. Focus Scotland.

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Sad to hear that Nicolas Roeg has passed. Performance and Don't Look Now are his standouts, but he was very patient when dealing with my excited questions about The Man Who Fell To Earth (and Walkabout and The Witches)

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5 years

Gillian Reynolds' review of @PhilWilliams in today's Sunday Times captures his smart, agile responses to Westminster breaking news.

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5 years

Baffled how a huge piece can be written about women documentary makers in a Scottish paper without mentioning outstanding filmmakers like Susan Kemp, May Miles Thomas and Jeannie Findlay. They win awards, make films on our doorstep yet still have to fight.

Fifty-fifty vision: For the women’s films we’ve never seen

Glaring gender imbalance behind the camera means we view the world through a distorting lens, women documentary-makers tell Dani Garavelli.

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8 years

For his last day as Prime Minister, David Cameron is bringing in Buckaroo and everyone is allowed to wear trainers.

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6 years

Sad news that the writer and campaigner Kenneth Roy is very ill. His final Scottish Review column is typically honest and graceful.

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5 years

•sacks sub* #scottishpressawards

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4 years

@sarahditum The writer never explains why he hasn’t read a book supplied 2 days earlier, written by his interviewee. I’m not surprised Piers butchered him, he went in without bothering to get tooled up. No research and by the look of it no strategy, aside from a blunt line about privilege

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Off to talk to the BBC about the Wham musical coming to a cinema nears you in 2019. Emilia Clarke plays an assistant in an all-year Xmas shop, so that's Last Christmas taken care of.

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5 years

Am Scottish Press Awards nominee for arts writer of the year; congrats to everyone who was, or should have been, nominated. And thanks to @WeWriteAtDawn , @nicoleftaylor and @mcatonjones who are all splendid subjects for @sundaytimesscot

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Oh come on, the pig was asking for it #piggate http://t.co/BB24jxjCbK

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8 years

#TopGear try to couple up Gordon Ramsay and Jesse Eisenberg: the oddest pairing since Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams in Carry on Doctor

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7 years

The Story of Scotdisc captures what it was like to be young, helpless and in the Grampian broadcast area at 7.30pm.

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3 years

@LucyHunterB @conor_matchett @scotonsunday Inflammatory rhetoric which is further enabled by a lazy journalist who can't be bothered quoting any counterpoints. SoS used to be so much better than this.

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3 years

I wrote this: Craig is best Bond #DrNowayYesway

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Could any musician enjoy percussion any more than this? #Eurovision http://t.co/alyEzksg2N

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6 years

I'm talking about #StillGame and its legacy tomorrow. Can't decide if my favourite moment is Jack and Victor's visit to Glengoyne Distillery, the drug-fuelled tea dance, or this complaint in the Times.

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8 years

Poor Kirsty Blackman on Newsnight had the haunted air of a woman trying to remember everything seen on the Generation Game conveyor belt

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@SiobhanSynnot

6 years

Natalie Usher went at the start of the year, now Janet Archer is stepping down from Creative Scotland. A good time to consider a bonfire for this quango's layers of bloated box-ticking bureaucracy, and reviewing its strained relations with artists

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@SiobhanSynnot

7 years

Farewell Keith Chegwin. You were Fleance in Roman Polanski's version of Macbeth. I hope some obits mention that, and not just Swap Shop, Maggie, booze and your naked game show.

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@SiobhanSynnot

7 years

This is such a weird picture to use: "cough please"

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@SiobhanSynnot

6 years

OK, but where's the awardwinning @MayMilesThomas ?

Screen International

@Screendaily

6 years

Six emerging Scotland-based directors you need to know

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Siobhan Synnot

@SiobhanSynnot

4 years

@ForwomenScot Another person who found laws inconvenient and ignored legal advice was Donald Trump. How on earth is Ms Spear a law student and politician?

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Siobhan Synnot

@SiobhanSynnot

5 years

*waves hello to a common sense thread*

Janette Foggo💙

@janette_foggo

5 years

Over the past year Cineworld have given cinema releases to Scottish films made in Scotland with Scottish Actors Crews Directors and Writers. Films that otherwise might not have got a cinema release. Isolani, Anna and The Apocalypse to name two. Wild Rose also made in Glasgow.

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Siobhan Synnot

@SiobhanSynnot

7 years

She's going to be even more disappointed by Glengarry Glen Ross

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