TV & Radio

From Bridgerton to Borgen: The 25 best TV shows to watch in 2022

Ciara McCartney and Arran MacPhee, owners of Lorne Cottage in Fort William, are set to feature in the new series of Scotland's Home of the Year 2022. Picture: IWC Media/BBC Scotland

Scotland's Home of the Year: A sneak peek inside one of the show's cutest properties
A TINY picture-perfect cottage in Fort William, a maximalist dovecote folly in Culloden and a towering church conversion on the Black Isle are among the contenders as the search for Scotland's Home of the Year begins this week.

Kaye Adams prepares to tackle the tango on Strictly Come Dancing

Alison Rowat's TV review: Karen Pirie; Make Me Prime Minister; River City; Strictly Come Dancing
LIKE you, I have spent just a couple of hours in the company of Karen Pirie (STV, Sunday), telly’s newest women detective, but already I’m liking the cut of her jib.

Ferne grabbing tyre from Jade during Murderball task in Celebrity SAS; Who Dares Wins

Alison Rowat's TV preview: Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy; Celebrity SAS; Portrait Artist of the Year

How Alan Rickman's world was enchanting

Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path, The Wild Silence and Landlines. Picture: Gordon Terris

Life after The Salt Path: Why Raynor Winn chose Scotland for her latest wild adventure

Rob Beckett presents new BBC series Unbreakable

TV: Celebrity relationships put to the test in new BBC series Unbreakable

Donald S Murray

Poem of the week: Pop goes the wildlife on the Western Isles

Checkout: Buxton Crescent, Derbyshire

Checkout: Buxton Crescent, Derbyshire

James Corden attending the Film Is GREAT Reception at the Fig and Olive in Los Angeles, USA..

Radio: Lessons from a working-class hero

John Goodlad’s new book explores the role played by salt fish in the economies and cultures of Shetland, Faroe, Iceland, Norway, the Netherlands and the Basque country

Books: The Salt Roads by John Goodlad

All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien is a slow-burning, thought-provoking debut novel

Books: Tracey Lien creates promise with compelling slow burn of a debut

Helen-OHara

Photograph: Natacha-Horn

Music: Confessions of an accidental Irishwoman

The Book of the Gaels exudes humour despite the grimness of its protagonists’ circumstances

Books: A luckless poet chases his dreams

549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War

Picture: Mihaela Bodlovic

Theatre: Last orders from the ghosts of a distant war

Rylan Clark is in Glasgow on Wednesday to celebrate 10 years in the spotlight

On the radar Entertainment: An evening with Rylan, or enjoy comedy with Craig Hill

Book stores can offer fun for the whole family

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Tea and scones with lashings of good stories - 10 of the best bookshop cafes

Scottish painter Yusef Szafki (1950-2021) produced his colourful and enigmatic canvases over several decades

Picture: Yusef Szafki/Graham Metcalfe

Galleries: Moving muscles, healing minds The fine art of living

Scottish actor Martin Compston starred in hit BBC drama Vigil which is set on a Trident submarine.

SNP MSP criticises hit BBC drama over portrayal of key aspect of Scots law

Steve Wright is signing off from the afternoon slot on Radio 2 after more than two decades

Issue of the day: Ageism question as Steve Wright leaves Radio 2 afternoons

Winners honoured at Herald property award

Winners honoured at Herald property award

Kenneth Branagh plays Boris Johnson in This England

TV REVIEW: Drama about Boris Johnson pulls no punches, but is it any good?

Who are Scotland's Top Employers?

Who are Scotland's Top Employers?

Scots’ SMEs Should Maximise Budget Benefits

Scots’ SMEs Should Maximise Budget Benefits

Sarah Millican

Picture: PA Photo/Rob Parfitt/Channel 4

TV: Sarah Millican is the latest comedian to take on the brilliantly absurd Taskmaster

Imelda Staunton will portray Queen Elizabeth II in the new series of The Crown on Netflix later this year

Issue of the day: The new series of The Crown in a new era

Kenneth Branagh as Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Pictures: PA Photo/ Sky UK Ltd/Phil Fisk

TV: Ophelia Lovibond on playing Carrie Symonds in Covid drama This England

Letters: The impartiality of the BBC is now sadly a relic of history

Letters: The independence of the BBC is now sadly a relic of history

The characters in Crossfire (BBC1) might have some more convincing to do

Alison Rowat's TV review: Crossfire; Bloodlands; Ghosts; Cunk on Earth

Industry confirms all your fears and prejudices about early 21st century capitalism

Alison Rowat's TV preview: Sensationalists; Industry; From Paris to Rome with Bettany Hughes

Sex Education and Karen Pirie star Chris Jenks. Picture: Alan Howard

Travel: Sex Education and Karen Pirie star Chris Jenks on Arran's best beach

River City stars past and present unite to mark 20 years with special episode

TV: River City 20th Anniversary Special – when to watch

Dominic West in SAS Rogue Heroes. Picture: BBC

Great escapes: Our pick of the best new TV dramas and documentaries for autumn

Scots Word of the Week: Penny geggie

Tom Gordon: Reporting on the new PM and her game of high stakes

Dilbert's strip from September 19, 2022 courtesy of https://dilbert.com (Copyright: Scott Adams)

Issue of the day: Comic strip cancelled amid 'woke' row

Leo Sayer

Picture: PA

Music: Leo Sayer on touring and reworking music from the fab four

Radio: Sue Barker - the coolest desert island dreamer

Author Douglas Skelton

Books: An Honourable Thief by Douglas Skelton

Author Ian McEwan

Books: The legendary Ian McEwan is back with his 17th novel.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel with Hayley Mills and Rula Lenska

Picture: Johan Persson

Theatre: The best lesson in late-life joie de vivre

Rhona Taylor’s exhibition Memoirs of a Spacewoman

Galleries: Visions of home and heart from Kintyre to Singapore

Novelist Terry Pratchett

Picture: Clive Gee/PA Wire

Terry Pratchett : Portrait of an angry ‘old fart’

Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham

On the radar: A feast of words and music to savour this week

Adnan at home with his mother Shamim and his friend Rabia O'Chaudry who campaigned for his release. Image: Twitter/Rabia O'Chaudry

Issue of the day: How a podcast helped Adnan Syed walk free

The British writer won the Booker Prize twice

Author Dame Hilary Mantel dies aged 70

The Herald and its journalists won a total of eight awards across the 13 categories they were nominated

The Herald wins eight awards in 43rd Scottish Press Awards

The bearer party at the State Funeral of the Queen

Alison Rowat: They turned out in their tens of thousands to witness an ending and a beginning

Jacinda Ardern will be one of a 2000-strong congregation in Westminster Abbey today for the Queen's funeral

Alison Rowat: New Zealand premier Ardern cites Scotland in defence of Covid strategy

What is today's Framed? September 19 movie hints and answer

Water of Leith otter, copyright Rosanna Forbes

Otter joy! Shy species spotted increasingly on Scotland's urban waterways

Funerals take on various forms but did you know there are awards for them in the UK?

KEVIN MCKENNA'S DIARY: Weegie believe it? An uncle from Glasgow crashes the funeral ...

Sir David Attenborough filming for Frozen Planet II. BBC Studios, Alex Board

Alison Rowat's TV review : Frozen Planet II; Shetland; Great British Bake-Off; All Creatures Great and Small

Michael Palin, world traveller, heads to Iraq

Alison Rowat's TV preview: Michael Palin: Into Iraq; Am I Being Unreasonable?; Handmade: Britain's Best Woodworker

Scots Word of the Week

Scots Word of the Week: Blue Blanket

Diane Morgan returns in Cunk On Earth. Picture: BBC

TV: The irrepressible Philomena Cunk returns for new BBC series