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Michael Alexander meets former Channel 4 Asia correspondent Ian Williams whose new book is warning about the rise of China, its global ambitions and why it's time for the West to 'wake up'. → Read More
Martin Compston loves Dundee and Dundonians. The former professional footballer turned actor’s first away game as a football fan was Dens Park and as a → Read More
A month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Michael Alexander speaks to some of the selfless volunteers from Tayside and Fife who are trying to help thousands of traumatised refugees in any way they can. → Read More
Olive Walker is pictured celebrating her 100th birthday at Orchar Nursing Home in Broughty Ferry on Saturday March 19. Olive (nee Robertson) was married → Read More
Ian White was 29-years-old when, in 1985, he embarked upon a full-time career in music. Gospel music was his speciality to start with. He made a record → Read More
A Fife businesswoman has roared into the finals of a UK-based international contest to find the next female motor racing champion. Viki Wright, who runs → Read More
An Angus Scout group is calling for former members, leaders and families to join them to mark their 60th anniversary in 2022 by sharing memories, photographs and stories. → Read More
VisitScotland’s Dundee iCentre has a new location within the world-renowned V&A Dundee. → Read More
Michael Alexander speaks to Sheila Gaul, Fife-based chairperson of Remembering the Accused Witches of Scotland, which is stepping up its campaign for a memorial and pardon for ‘witches’. → Read More
Broughty Ferry born Jimmy McIntosh MBE, who was regarded as one of the most influential pipers of the 20th century, has died at his home in South Carolina, USA, aged 95 after being cared for in his final days by his wife Joyce and son Cameron. → Read More
Michael Alexander asks Fife-raised British Geological Survey head seismologist Dr Brian Baptie why there has been a spate of Perthshire earthquakes in recent months and what trends might develop in future. → Read More
Dundee artists are joining their peers overseas to discuss the ‘curveball’ thrown by Covid-19. → Read More
The field holler was a mostly historical type of vocal music sung by field slaves in the United States - and later by African American forced labourers accused of violating vagrancy laws - to accompany their tasked work, to communicate usefully, or to vent feelings. → Read More
Covid-19 restrictions mean that local remembrance events will not be able to proceed this Sunday. → Read More
Twenty years after the sudden death of Scotland’s first First Minister Donald Dewar, Michael Alexander explores his legacy by speaking to several former political colleagues who knew him professionally and personally. → Read More
Three new ‘arrival’ panels are to be erected to welcome locals and visitors into Cupar town centre. → Read More
Michael Alexander hears why a research team attached to V&A; Dundee wants to hear from former workers and families connected with former Dundee-based picture postcard firm J. Valentines & Sons. → Read More
On the 15th anniversary of the G8 summit at Gleneagles, warnings have been sounded that global poverty could be set back decades by Covid-19. So will poverty ever be history? Michael Alexander reports. → Read More
A Scots nurse, formerly of North East Fife, is fighting to cut cancer deaths in an African country which only has one specialist hospital for 17 million people. → Read More
It was the ground-breaking “ET hunting” project that used spare computing cycles to aid the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence. → Read More