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John Leader as Tristan and Nandi Bhebhe as Yseult. Picture: Steve Tanner

Tristan and Yseult - 5 stars

Dai Evans was one of the Aberfan witnesses who told their stories in a new BBC2 documentary Aberfan: The Village that Fought Back. (Picture: BBC Studios/Mei Williams)

Aberfan: The Village that Fought Back: History with a shocking message for today

Wallace & Gromit Lego set

15 Wallace & Gromit gifts to celebrate Aardman's 50th birthday

Edinburgh Filmhouse in the running to be crowned the UK’s best cinema

Four Edinburgh acts - Barry Can't Swim, Sonedo, Swim School, and Boards of Canada (L-to-R) - have been nominated for Scottish Album of the Year 2026.

Four Edinburgh acts named in Scottish Album of the Year 2026 shortlist

Liberty X will join East 17, Atomic Kitten's Natasha Hamilton and other pop favourites at Boybands vs Girlbands at a Parkdean Resorts holiday weekend, ahead of their Popstars: The Originals tour with Hear'Say next year.

Liberty X fans can see the group at weekend event before reunion tour

The SAY Award Ceremony will return to Dundee’s Caird Hall on November 5.

Local music acts up for Scottish Album of the Year Award public vote

David Harewood stars as lawyer Pierre Jeffreys in the new Channel 4 drama Pierre (Picture: Channel 4/Olly Courtney)

Pierre review: David Harewood will give TV mavericks a good name

Edinburgh Zoo's penguin parade is back.

Edinburgh Zoo’s famous penguin parade back after bird flu cancellation

Shirley Manson of Garbage

Garbage icon Shirley Manson to return to Edinburgh for literary event

Richard Armitage plays maverick forensic pathologist Ethan Winter in the new ITV drama Winter, which began this week (Picture: Eagle Eye Drama/ITV/ITVx)

Winter verges on parody but remains weirdly watchable

Two gigs due to take place at the Royal Highland Centre this week have been cancelled

Two Edinburgh gigs cancelled at last minute over issues with promoter

Michelle Keegan stars as DI Emma Crane in the new ITV drama series The Blame (Picture: Quay Street Productions for ITV/ITVx)

Michelle Keegan shines in cop drama with a message

The participants in this week's 'experiment' from Channel 4, Apocalypse. From left, Kyra; Laura; Matty; Kelly; Dean; Celia; Kiera; Scott; Steven; Brooke; Bertie; Louise; Ioan and Freddie. (Picture: Matthew Salacuse/Channel 4)

Channel 4's Apocalypse is a "radical experiment" we just don't need right now

The ink-drawing took 3,500 hours to complete

Artist's 6ft Edinburgh drawing goes on display

Wolf Pack intergenerational dance company performs Ha Ha Ha

Wolf Pack: Scotland’s first intergenerational dance company
Barrowland Ballet is a Creative Scotland-funded Glasgow dance company, and its “Wolf Pack” community group showcases performances from all generations.
Bruce Whitehead

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Why thinking outside The Box is not always a good thing

The contestants for series 22 of Taskmaster, which started this week. From left, Chloe Petts, Isy Suttie, Matt Lucas, Nina Conti and Richard Ayoade (Picture: Avalon Television Ltd/Channel 4)

Taskmaster may not be the show you want, but it’s definitely the show you need

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Race Against the Tide is built on quicksand, sinking without trace

John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor (played by David Mitchell) returns to solve crimes in a new series of the BBC comedy-drama (Picture: BBC/Big Talk Studios/Olly Courtney)

David Mitchell excels in this mix of puzzles, laughs and cosy crime

Prof David Olusoga presents a new series of A House Through Time from Edinburgh (Picture: BBC/Twenty Twenty Productions Ltd/Richard Ranken)

A House Through Time review: History comes alive through ordinary people

Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright at the Edinburgh Playhouse last night

Playhouse owners set to be bought over in multi-billion pound deal

Rachael Irvine (left) and Mick North (right) alongside The Second Best School Shooting playwright Alice Stanley Jr (centre) The play is performing at Pleasance Grand throughout the Edinburgh Fringe.

Fringe school shooting play is 'very sobering reminder of reality'

Richard E Grant visited Malta in the first episode of his new Channel 4 series, Richard E Grant's Modern Odyssey. (Picture: Emporium Productions)

This modern odyssey is all about the journey, not the destination

Edinburgh-born actor Ewen Bremner went to Portobello High School. His roles have inluded playing Daniel "Spud" Murphy in Trainspotting and its 2017 sequel T2 Trainspotting as well as parts in blockbusters such as Pearl Harbor and Black Hawk Down.

Famous faces who went to Portobello High School

Take a look through our gallery to see 10 famous faces who went to Edinburgh's James Gillespie's High School.

10 famous faces who went to James Gillespie's High School

Gary: Tank Commander star Greg McHugh is joining the line-up of Fringe By The Sea 2026.

Gary: Tank Commander star joins Fringe By The Sea line-up
It comes as Greg Hemphill dropped out of his scheduled appearance due to “unforeseen circumstances”
Heather Carrick

Dennis Crown (John Hannah) is an ex-copper looking for a quiet life in the new Channel 5 drama Benidorm is Murder. (Picture: 5 Broadcasting Ltd/Clapperboard)

This meta new crime drama is weird enough to get away with murder

Roddy Woomble of Idlewild on stage in 2005

Edinburgh band announce special 30th anniversary show at Usher Hall

Craigmillar Tapestry stitcher Heather Henderson, Scottish Storytelling Centre's Lauren Paterson and Artist Andrew Crummy celebrate the launch of the Craigmillar Tapestry. Created by more than 500 residents of Craigmillar and Niddrie, the tapestry will be on display at the Scottish Storytelling Centre (SSC) from 24 July until 31 August as part of its Fringe 2026 programme and the Centre's 20th anniversary celebrations.

Tapestry made by hundreds of Craigmillar residents goes on display

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Judge John Deed review: Capital punishment for the TV viewer

Free concert to take place at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall that aims to bring the city together

Ad Feature Register for free classical concert celebrating Scotland’s heritage

Garbage at Edinburgh Castle: Singer finds her happy place in the rain

Theatre producer Colin Ingram is bringing his production of Back To The Future: The Music to Edinburgh almost four decades after he founded the Edinburgh University Footlights society.

'How founding Edinburgh Footlights kickstarted my theatre career'

Finance campaigner Gary Stevenson was calling for a wealth tax in How to Get Filthy Rich on Channel 4 this week. (Picture: Rob Parfitt/Channel 4)

Tax crusade is let down by the adolescent level of debate

Graham Norton is returning to Edinburgh for a live radio show during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Graham Norton to host live Edinburgh radio show with celebrity guests

Gary Lineker and Amelia Dimoldenberg are set to appear at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

Gary Lineker and Amelia Dimoldenberg to headline Edinburgh TV Festival

Amy Jo Kearton, Assistant Curator, NMMS; Paul McGinty, Artist; Ray Lafferty, Curator, NMMS; Iain Chalmers, former miner, Fife

New exhibition at National Mining Museum explores coal industry legacy

Take a look through our gallery to see 10 fun places in Edinburgh to take the kids during school summer holidays.

10 fun things to do during the school holidays

Cecil's story is featured in the new series of 24 Hours in A&E, after he came off his motorbike in a 130mph crash (Picture: Channel 4)

A night in A&E can make you feel better about the world

Leave and Remain campaigners face off during the 2016 EU referendum, the centrepoint of the new BBC documentary series Brexit: A Very British Civil War (Picture: BBC/Zinc Television/Alamy/PA Images/Dominic Lipinski)

Farage and Johnson paint a turning point as playground politics

Sea of red descends on Edinburgh for mass Kate Bush dance tribute

Clive Goss (David Morrissey) and Leo Struthers (Alan Cumming) are locked in a death spiral in the new drama from Russell T Davies, Tip Toe (Picture: BEN BLACKALL/CHANNEL 4)

Tip Toe grips you right from the shocking start

The Stand Comedy Club cancelled a talk by SNP MP Joanna Cherry after staff complained, but backed down after a threat of legal action (Picture: Kate Chandler)

Edinburgh comedy club launches new Fringe award for Scottish acts

Actor Richard Rankin.

Outlander star set to narrate 2026 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

Graham Coxon with Blur at Glastonbury in 2009. (Photo by Jim Dyson/Getty Images)

First Graham Coxon solo tour in a decade to begin in Edinburgh

Joseph Fiennes (centre) plays England manager Gareth Southgate in the new BBC drama Dear England (Picture: BBC/Left Bank)

Dear England review: Football is a beautiful game, after all

The King's Theatre has undergone a four-year renovation project

King's Theatre to reopen in time for festival season as plans revealed

Paapa Essiedu is Father David Hicks and Keeley Hawes plays Sister Anna in the new Channel 4 drama series Falling (Picture: Channel 4/The Forge/Robert Viglasky)

Falling's tale of love in cloisters is a real curate's egg

Scottish actor Rikki Fulton in Moliere's The Miser at the Lyceum theatre Edinburgh in May 1973.

30 brilliant pictures of Edinburgh theatres in the mid-1970s

Here you can see The New Seekers on the West End of Princes Street, by a sign that points in the direction of the Usher Hall, where the Eurovision song contest took place. The New Seekers were the UK entry in 1972.

In pictures: When Edinburgh hosted Eurovision

Trainspotting: The Musical is coming to Edinburgh later this year.

Cast announced as Trainspotting: The Musical coming to Edinburgh

Sally Lindsay plays Donna, the Number One Fan of the title in Channel 5's new drama series (Picture: Clapperboard/Channel 5)

Number One Fan review: Never mind the quality, feel the width

Gemma Arterton plays spy chief Kate Henderson in the new ITV thriller Secret Service (Picture: Potboiler Productions/ITV)

It may have Bond yawning, but Secret Service is an effective spy story

Arran (Ben Coyle-Larner) and Shannon (Emma Laird) spark up a romance in the new BBC drama Mint (Picture: House/Fearless Minds/BBC)

Mint review: A visually-inventive mix of myth, Shakespeare and The Sopranos

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