Celtic Connections

Who stuck the great Emmylou Harris in a sports hall?

31 January 2026 9:00 am

Somebody obviously thought it a good idea that Emmylou Harris play her last ever Scottish show in a soulless sports…

The maudlin, magical world of Celtic Connections

1 February 2025 9:00 am

Is it possible to find a common thread running through the finest Scottish music? If pushed, one might identify a…

Such sweet sorrow

19 February 2022 9:00 am

We gathered on a freezing Sunday night, inside a barrel-vaulted church designed in the 1890s by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, to…

The Third way

1 February 2014 9:00 am

When my colleague Charles Moore first began accusing Radio 3 of becoming ‘babyish’, and talking down to us as if…