HE was born in Belfast, but Michael Boyd, the lauded – and now departing – artistic director of one of the definitive crown jewels of British culture, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) declares proudly: "There isn't a non-Scottish molecule in me."
Boyd, the director perhaps best known in Scotland for being leader of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow for nearly ten years until 1996, will feel those molecules tingle again this week. He is in Glasgow again, delivering, on Thursday, a major lecture at the Royal Concert Hall for the ongoing series of Glasgow Lectures on Culture.