# Alasdair Gray

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Alan Cumming on Alasdair Gray's Lanark

Led by James Naughtie, this special episode of Bookclub celebrates the late Alasdair Gray's 1981 masterpiece, Lanark, at the Pitlochry Winter Words Festival, with the actor Alan Cumming, who is the voice of the new audiobook recently released by Canongate. Described by the author as 'a life in four…

Film Club Extra: Poor Things

Our journey through this year's Best Picture nominees arrives at Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone's next collaboration after The Favourite, and an adaptation of the 1992 Alasdair Gray novel. But can it win? This episode presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Mark Donaldson …

Rory Watson & Alan Bissett

Send us Fan Mail We’re back in Glasgow’s magical Alasdair Gray Archive on this episode, for a chat with two brilliant Scottish writers, and literary leading lights - Rory Watson and Alan Bissett… Rory is a poet, academic and editor - and a former Professor of English at Stirling University, whose c…

S4:E8 Poor Things (2023 Film)

We’re wrapping up Made of Madness March with one of the wildest adaptations we’ve covered yet: Poor Things by Alasdair Gray and its 2023 film adaptation starring Emma Stone. This strange, bold story about Bella Baxter takes us from page to screen in a way that’s as chaotic as it is fascinating. We …

Paul Weller on his musical evolution

From the rebellious spirit of The Jam in the 1970s to the soulful sound of The Style Council and mellow ballads as a solo artist, singer-songwriter Paul Weller is about to release Weller At The BBC Volume 2 - a series of session recordings of his classic hits and interpretations of other artists' s…

22. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Returning guest and prolific author TT Madden comes back to the pod to discuss a fun classic Bride of Frankenstein (1935), our oldest movie to date and our first sequel (possibly the first horror sequel)! We discuss how new horror reflects the moment, the Hays code, Pretorius’ crypt picnic, how thi…

Nick Lowe’s Mutant Popcorn Extras, IZ 296

Interzone film critic and awesome human Nick Lowe returned to IZ Pod to talk about three films that didn’t make it into his IZ 296 serving of Mutant Popcorn – Alexandre O. Philippe’s must-watch William Shatner documentary; a gender-flipped, body-hopping Stuart Gordon tribute; and an sf-adjacent com…

John Crosbie - Agnes Owens: The Centenary Editions

For the latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast we spoke to John Crosbie, the son of one of Ali’s favourite writers, Agnes Owens whose centenary is being marked in a number of ways, including a handsome set of new editions of her work. Four are available now (see below) with another three coming later in th…

Scarves, Alasdair Gray, Hogback Stones and Dirty Books

Join Karen as she talks to Irish artist and researcher Aoife Cawley at her Edinburgh based studio. We talk about Aoife's influences, use of colour, archives and dirty books! This is part one of a two part episode because we had so much fun chatting. This is part 2 of the interview. If you have not …