Janet Christie
Journalist at The Scotsman
Scottish Press Awards Arts and Entertainment Journalist of Year, 2023, 2024, Feature Writer of the Year runner up, travel editor, Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday
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He gave her a one star review. She ruined his life. A Fringe performer turns the tables on a critic.
2 weeks ago |
msn.com | Janet Christie
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2 weeks ago |
scotsman.com | Janet Christie
Charlotte Runcie’s debut novel Bring the House Down draws on her time as a Festival reviewer and captures the fraught and funny frenzy of the city in August. What happens when an Edinburgh Fringe performer fights back against the critic who dissed her show, putting him under the spotlight on stage and on trial by social media and ends up with a hit?
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4 weeks ago |
scotsman.com | Janet Christie
Surreal, strange, weird... what happens when you set a Scandi noir crime drama in Scotland. “Extraordinary moments, surreal, strange things…” Attempting to describe her favourite part of filming new Netflix drama Dept. Q when we speak ahead of its launch, Chloe Pirrie is immediately tied up in avoiding spoilers, such is the extraordinary turn of events that befall her character.
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1 month ago |
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scotsman.com | Janet Christie
The Edinburgh actor explains why forty years after the biggest bullion heist in history the Brinks-Mat story still fires the imagination“If you’ve bought any gold after 1983 there’s a really good chance that somewhere in it is a piece of the stolen Brink’s-Mat bullion,” says Emun Elliott who is back as detective Tony Brightwell in season two of Neil Forsyth’s hit BBC TV drama The Gold. “It’s a story that spans years and changed the world as we know it.
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He gave her a one star review. She ruined his life. A Fringe performer turns the tables on a critic. Writer Charlotte Runcie tells me about her debut novel Bring the House Down, her time as a Festival reviewer and why she loves Edinburgh in August. https://t.co/gxKXLu7kpc
Inside the "strange and weird" world of Dept Q with Edinburgh's Chloe Pirrie. The Scottish actor tells me all about starring in the new Netfilx crime thriller that puts a tartan twist on Scandi Noir. https://t.co/on5Bi6pG3b https://t.co/XecZeyH0eo
Edinburgh actor Emun Elliott tells me why 40 years after the biggest bullion heist in history, the Brink’s-Mat story still fires the imagination in BBC crime drama The Gold https://t.co/3F6KPwDhC6