Teddy Jamieson

3 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Teddy Jamieson

Danny Dyer with the Male Performance in a Comedy Programme Award for 'Mr Bigstuff' at the 2025 BAFTA 's (Image: Getty Images) Reasons to be cheerful? Danny Dyer on Desert Island Discs. We do love a redemption arc, don’t we? And Dyer’s fits the bill. Working-class boy, child star, Harold Pinter protege, too many drugs and too much drink. Then EastEnders, rehab, therapy and imminent national treasure status.

4 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Teddy Jamieson

Duncan Ferguson with Rangers (Image: free) Duncan Ferguson was one of the best known and most controversial Scottish players of  the 1990s, who became the first ever to be jailed for an incident on the playing field. He's now written his autobiography, Big Dunc, in which he reveals how his manager at Rangers had an unusual plan to calm down the Stirling-born striker's notoriously fiery temper. Ferguson says his manager Walter Smith tried to set him up with Miss Scotland.

4 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Teddy Jamieson

In the early years of his career, Duncan Ferguson was labelled “Duncan Disorderly” (Image: free) It’s a Tuesday afternoon in April and Duncan Ferguson has gone AWOL. It’s been half an hour, maybe 40 minutes, since we were scheduled to chat on Zoom and still no sign of him. As I email the PR, I'm wondering if he’s decided against talking to the press. It would hardly be the first time.

1 month ago | heraldscotland.com | Teddy Jamieson

Walter Murch editing Moviola (Image: W Murch) This is an origin story. In June 1896, the Soviet novelist Maxim Gorky, then a 28-year-old reporter, attended an event organised by the Lumiere brothers in the city of Nizhny Novgorod. Gorky was there to see what he and his fellow Russian citizens had never seen before; moving images, in this case projected onto a bedsheet in a brothel. Writing about it a few days later, Gorky was clearly not taken with the experience.

1 month ago | heraldscotland.com | Teddy Jamieson

Oasis lead singer Liam Gallagher and his brother Noel in their late 1990s heyday (Image: Joanne Nelson/PA Wire) This year will see the second summer of Britpop.