Janet Christie
Journalist at The Scotsman
Scottish Press Awards Arts and Entertainment Journalist of the Year, 2024, runner-up Feature Writer of the Year, travel editor, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday
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5 days ago |
scotsman.com | Janet Christie
In the Glasgow tenement flat the SHOTY judge calls home, every picture tells a storyWho doesn’t love a nosey around someone else’s home? When it belongs to Scotland’s Home of the Year judge and interior designer Anna-Campbell Jones, the anticipation is high as I climb the steps to the imposing front door of her main-door tenement flat in Glasgow’s West End and an uplifting rising octave bell trills my arrival.
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5 days ago |
scotsman.com | Janet Christie
In the Glasgow tenement flat the SHOTY judge calls home, every picture tells a storyWho doesn’t love a nosey around someone else’s home? When it belongs to Scotland’s Home of the Year judge and interior designer Anna-Campbell Jones, the anticipation is high as I climb the steps to the imposing front door of her main-door tenement flat in Glasgow’s West End and an uplifting rising octave bell trills my arrival.
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1 week ago |
scotsman.com | Janet Christie
With a new novel and album, Irvine Welsh goes back to the 1980s to take the Transpotting crew on their wildest ride yet‘I’ve always been romantic, it’s always burned away inside of me,’ says the Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh. He may not be your go-to romance writer yet the thrice-married Scottish writer assures me he’s a fool for love.
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2 weeks ago |
scotsman.com | Janet Christie
Playing a gangster wife in This City is Ours is a dream role for the Scottish actorIf you’ve been bingeing This City is Ours you’ll be familiar with Scottish actor Julie Graham as Elaine Phelan, matriarch of the Liverpudlian crime dynasty which is tearing itself and each other apart in the tense eight-part BBC crime drama. She’s already a popular face on screen from her role as Ma Hardacre, another tough as old boots matriarch, in Channel 5’s period drama The Hardacres.
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3 weeks ago |
scotsman.com | Janet Christie
The cry of “gardyloo" goes out and the splash of water hitting the flagstones amid the shouts of street traders and entertainers has me braced and eyeballing upwards at the windows of Royal Mile’s towering tenements. But the cascading contents of a chamber pot or ‘nasty bucket’ do not materialise as the cries come from the soundtrack of street noises on the headphones I’m wearing on what’s billed as the UK's first “fully immersive multi-sensory walking tour”.
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'I think what would Ma do? Ma would punch them in the face.' Why Julie Graham loves playing a matriarch - the Scottish actor tells me why being a gangster wife in the BBC's This City is Ours is a dream role https://t.co/PqVfWFQOjf
An appearance by Scottish designer Pam Hogg is one of many events celebrating style at this weekend's Edinburgh STYLE 2025 event at the St James Quarter and W Edinburgh hotel. Pam Hogg interview with The Scotsman March, 2025 https://t.co/Y8g8bD1wOx https://t.co/VNj4x0vsyS
Sunshine on Leith and 1917 actor George MacKay considers the dilemmas of post-apocalypse life posed by his new film The End, with Tilda Swinton. He tells me how the climate change musical and starting a family have made him face up to the truth. https://t.co/3BpsWfXWoS