Short Story Short Story Brotherly Love by Angus Reid The phrase “cruel to be kind” comes from Hamlet, but Shakespeare’s Prince didn’t go in for kidnap, explosive punches, and cigarette deprivation. Tam is different.
Gig Review Monday 07th Oct 2024 Gig Review To open a time-capsule of punk ANGUS REID time-travels back to times when Gay Liberation was radical and allied seamlessly to an anti-racist, anti-establishment movement
Interview Friday 15th Mar 2024 Interview The legacy of South Africa’s revolutionary women ANGUS REID speaks to historian Siphokazi Magadla about the women who fought apartheid and their impact on South African society
Theatre review Thursday 22nd Feb 2024 Theatre review Dodgy cartoon Marx ANGUS REID mulls over the bizarre rationale behind the desire to set the life of Karl Marx to music
Theatre Review Friday 16th Feb 2024 Theatre Review The lost horizons of adolescence ANGUS REID applauds the portrait of two women in a lyrical and compassionate study of sex, shame and nostalgia
Interview Friday 26th Jan 2024 Interview ‘Trump is much less well educated than Mussolini’ ANGUS REID speaks to Mark Cousins about his documentary The March On Rome, commissioned in Italy, about Italian fascism then and now
BenchMarx Friday 05th Jan 2024 BenchMarx John Pilger’s mastery of the documentary essay ANGUS REID reflects on John Pilger's late films as a popular form of political cinema
Interview Wednesday 20th Dec 2023 Interview Thank you for the music ANGUS REID speaks to Romain Malan about his remarkable drive to bring music into deprived communities and healthcare settings
Thursday 30th Nov 2023 Spotlight on private school child abuse in Scotland The significance of the Scottish historic child abuse inquiry is in how it reveals the workings of British elites that fill the ranks of the government and professional classes, writes ANGUS REID
Theatre Review Wednesday 11th Oct 2023 Theatre Review The state of the nation ANGUS REID welcomes a penetrating study of a dysfunctional Scottish family at the time of the independence referendum
Wednesday 20th Sep 2023 ‘You’ve got to love the scabs’ Angus Reid speaks to IRVINE WELSH about the art and the politics behind his popular ITV series Crime