Paul English

Journalist/broadcaster/voice. Presenter BBC Radio Scotland's LostLetters; Travis:The Man Who at 20; STV Scottish Passport Author Deacon Blue:To Be Here Someday.

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The first reviews of #ToBeHereSomeday, the new book I’ve written with ⁦@deaconbluemusic⁩, are in.

(From ⁦@reallorraine⁩, another real (gone) Lorraine and ⁦@rickyaross⁩).

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Saw @NTSonline’s take on The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie last night @citizenstheatre. Agree with @NeilCooper1’s words here. Was quietly ashamed to say I’d neither read nor seen it before last night (and I wasn’t the only one, judging by the side-mouth asides in the foyer before and after). Glad Gayle Rankin’s JB was my first.

[Neil Cooper @NeilCooper1]

My @heraldscotland @heraldmagazine review of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring Gayle Rankin in @NTSonline ‘s Muriel Spark reboot

https://t.co/dDzBVdzjEd

Edinburgh until Oct 18; Glasgow Oct 21-24; Aberdeen Oct 29-31; Pitlochry Nov 4-7

All tix - https://t.co/8AtH1amVPv

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As he launches the new Damn Few pilot platform on Glasgow Tellyfest, I spoke to Sanjeev Kohli about the approximation of Scotland’s flags ‘as right wing totems’ ahead of his new comedy drama inspired by his immigrant parents in 1980s Glasgow.

https://t.co/cAykOIN1nw

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@GedGrimes @BBCRadio2 Was there on the night, Ged. Incredible performance.

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In today’s @thetimes, I’m interviewing Sanjeev Kohli @govindajeggy about his new project addressing Glasgow’s relationship with immigration, now and then.

“It’s very easy to point to the brown guy and say ‘he’s the source of your problems’. Some claim that the easy way of fixing that is stopping boats or deporting people and selling that as a way of solving their problems.

“When 150 Saltires go up overnight, that’s not by accident. It’s premeditated by someone with money trying to influence an agenda. 

“A lot of the guys with balaclavas don’t sound like they have Scottish accents, so there’s an element of manipulation and organisation and pushing an agenda. I hope Glasgow stands firm as a place that welcomes people.”

It’s part of Glasgow Tellyfest.

https://t.co/FnnfEczefP

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@DouglasBeattie4 @Highland__paddy @CliffGraham8 💚

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I’ve been working closely with @PlaylistforLife, and today’s front page for my story in @heraldscotland is the latest piece about #nationalplaylistday, as Sir Alex Ferguson pledges £100k funding boost to help the charity in light of his brother’s experience with dementia, and the impact music can have on the lives of those affected.

[The Herald @heraldscotland]

@heraldscotland https://t.co/qDvYb5TTm8

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‘I was thinking about the privilege, as these people walked past wondering who I was, this wee guy from Greenock.’

Before @martin_compston’s new series Living Las Vegas airs, I spoke to him for @thetimes about closing down The Strip, the return of Line of Duty and chips & gravy in Greenock’s Oak Mall.

https://t.co/vah6b5n0mk

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Also in today’s Sunday papers, I’m speaking to James Graham of The Twilight Sad and Ken McCluskey of the Bluebells about their experience of using music to help with a dementia diagnosis in their families.

It’s #nationalplaylistday on Friday, led by @PlaylistforLife. Give them a follow to find out how playlists can help with dementia diagnoses.

And #buyasundaypaper. These pieces are in Sunday Post and Sunday Mail.

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In today’s @thetimes, I’m interviewing @martin_compston about his nights on The Strip in Greenock (Word Up, Text) and The Strip in Vegas (Fountains of Bellagio) as he launches his new US Travel series Living Las Vegas on @Channel4 @TernTelevision

#buyasundaypaper

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Well.

#lulu #glasgow

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Nine years ago this month I formed the beluga whale choir of Churchill, Manitoba.

(I won’t hear a bad word said about any singing, mine or theirs. The water’s cold in the sub artic).

https://t.co/pI6E5LSb7p

@TravelManitoba @TownofChurchill

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This @atticlights1 album.
Over and over at the moment.
Still a total belter.

https://t.co/tpUY5YCkBD

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@eddiebhoy71 Brilliant, Eddie. Would have been Betamax in those days, too.

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For several years in the 1980s, after my mum answered an ad in the Daily Record, we had family holidays on Jersey.

We rented a house, Somenos, owned by a vicar and his wife, Fr John and Patsy, who decamped to the bottom of their garden to spend the summer in a shack they’d built, while renting their house out to holidaymakers. For four years we went back, joined by wider family and friends.

These became the definitive holidays of my childhood.

I had the chance to go back to visit Somenos, now the home of island artist Andrew Thompson, who took us a tour down memory lane through his orchard, sharing old photos and giving me a bag of apples from the trees we’d played football around decades before. The garden still smelled like summer 86.

Took my mum, and wrote about it all for @heraldscotland

https://t.co/ALLPlJzOpo

@VisitJerseyCI

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@ewart_lynne thanks Lynne x

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After all the articles I’ve written about the Glasgow Garden Festival, I’ve ended up in one, having clocked the stricken rollercoaster making the news was once the Coca Cola Roller of a million summer memories from 1988.

https://t.co/evrqg2Uhvq

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@urbanprehisto @LambLex I’ve no idea whose idea this was (it might have been mine) but I’ll just hold the coats.