I'd done an Edinburgh show before, in 1981, called 'The Importance of Being Varnished' - I was in the pun trade at… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
I didn't have the money to put myself through drama school, so I thought - naively - that if I wrote a… — Neil Jackson Copy Share Image
“An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I realised after I came to… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by… — Robert Edwards Copy Share Image
I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
