Here's where you can find free events from Glasgow Life. First up we have Aye Write and Wee Write.
Aye Write is Glasgow's annual book festival. Our festival pass gives you access to all paid content on 14, 15, 16 and 21, 22, 23 May, as well as the pre-festival event with Chris Brookmyre, Denise Mina and Louise Welsh on 28 April, Andrew O'Hagan 29 May and Ed Miliband 23 June. The full schedule ...
Pre-festival Event - April 28th 7pm (BST)
Also available through the Aye Write Pass
This event will be live and will also be available to view for 3 weeks after the broadcast date.
Books are available to purchase from our bookseller partner Bookshop.org (uk.bookshop.org/shop/ayewrite). Books...
Scotland After the Pandemic
Gerry Hassan, Katherine Trebeck,
Joyce McMillan, Alan Bissett chaired by Simon Barrow
11.45am BST
This event will be live and also available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 4th Jun).
This performance i...
Challenging Muslim Stereotypes
Tawseef Khan & Zeba Talkhani
Chaired by Kirsteen Paterson
1pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 4th June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write ...
Can You Trust What You Saw?
Imran Mahmood & Erin Kelly chaired by Ayo Onatade
2.15pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 4th Jun 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 festi...
A City and a Family’s Story of Slavery
Craig Lamont & Alex Renton with Graham Campbell chaired by Naomi Shoba
3.30pm BST
This event will be live and also available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 4th Jun 2021).
This performance is...
Travel Shouldn't Cost the Earth
Emma Gregg & Nina Karnikowski chaired by Gabriella Bennett
4.45pm BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 4th Jun 2021).
This performance is included in the...
Captivating Caribbean Fiction
Monique Roffey & Leone Ross chaired by Rodge Glass
6pm BST
This event will be live and also available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 4th Jun 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 ...
When is a Change Gonna Come?
Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu and Emily Bernard chaired by Amna Saleem
7.15pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 4th June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye ...
Pete Paphides
7.15pm BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 4th June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 festival pass, so you will not need to purchase this event i...
Richard Thompson chaired by James Yorkston
8.30pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 4th June).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 festival pass, so you will not need to purch...
All the Young Men in the Gay Bars
Ruth Coker Burks and Jeremy Atherton Lin chaired by Alim Kheraj
9.45pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 12 June 2021).
This performance is included in the ...
Big Ideas To Carry In Your Pocket
Liam Koneman, Arusa Qureshi and Katie Goh chaired by Peggy Hughes
10.30am BST
This event will be live/pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on xxx xx Jun).
This performance is in...
Prize-winning Scottish Authors
Helen McClory & Ruth Thomas chaired by Sara Davies
11.45am BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 5th June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 ...
Live the Life - Write the Books
Peter Hain, James Brabazon & Sarah Sultoon chaired by Louise Fairbairn
Official event title with authors and chair
Sponsored by
1pm BST
This event will be live/pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different ...
Journeys Outside and In
Chris Dolan & Kieran Cunningham chaired by Vanessa Collingridge
2.15pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 5th June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write...
Magical, Dazzling Fiction
Jenni Fagan & Irenosen Okojie chaired by Rodge Glass
3.30pm BST
This event will be live/pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 5th June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye ...
Mel Giedroyc chaired by Gabriella Bennett
4.45pm BST
PLEASE NOTE: This event will be pre-recorded and only available to watch at the live broadcast time.
This event is included in the Aye Write 2021 festival pass, so you will not need to purchase this event if you have already purchased a pass....
One of the Family
Nicky Campbell chaired by Anna Day
6pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 5th June).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 festival pass, so you will not need t...
A Balkan Journey
Chris Leslie and John McDougall
7.15pm BST
This event will be live/pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 5th June).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 festival pass, so you wi...
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
Niall Ferguson chaired by Magnus Linklater
8.30pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 5th June).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 festival p...
Katy Wix chaired by Kirsteen Paterson
8.30pm BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 5th June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 festival pass, so you will not need...
Beyond Yes or No: What Next for Scotland
Stephen Gethins, Iain Dale, Kirstin Innes chaired by Kenny Farquharson
Sponsored by The Times Scotland
8.30pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 6th J...
The Future Of Your Data
Tracey Follows and Sam Gilbert chaired by Sean McNamara
In association with CILIPS
11.45am BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 6 June 2021).
This performance is include...
A Manifesto for Caring
Madeline Bunting and Gavin Francis chaired by Kirsteen Paterson
1pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 6th June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 20...
A Time and Place to Breathe
Bill Mitchell & Linda Gask chaired by Theresa Talbot
2.15pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 6th June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 ...
The Life and Legacy of James Baldwin
Robert Jones, Jnr & James Campbell chaired by Zoe Venditozzi
3.30pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 6 June 2021).
This performance is included in the A...
The Books That Made Me
Andrew Marr chaired by Ruth Wishart
4.45pm BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 6 June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 festival pass, so...
A Reassuring Look at Mental Health
Dean Burnett & Robin Dunbar chaired by Russel McLean
6pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 6 June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 202...
Feminism Without Borders
Mona Elthaway & Koa Beck chaired by Zoe Venditozzi
7.15pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 6 June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 festiva...
Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish chaired by Janice Forsyth
Sponsored by The Sunday Times
7.15pm BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 6 June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye ...
A Pair of Wildly Compelling Novels
Elizabeth Reeder & Elizabeth Haynes chaired by Sara Davies
10.30am BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 11 June 2021).
This performance is included in...
Eco Tips for Your Home and Family
Nancy Birtwhistle & Jen Gale chaired by Frankie Burr
11.45am BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 12 June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write...
Gripping, Wartime Thrillers
Simon Scarrow, Jack Grimwood & Kjell Ola Dahl chaired by Jacky Collins
1pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 12 June 2021).
This performance is included in the A...
Thrillers with a Drop of Horror
Catriona Ward, Will Dean & Sarah Pearse chaired by Douglas Skelton
2.15pm BST
This event will be live/ and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 12 June 2021).
This performance is included in t...
Four Centuries of Murder
Craig Russell, Robbie Morrison & SG MacLean chaired by ES Thomson
3.30pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 12 June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Wr...
Immersive, Poetic Fiction
Salena Godden and Courttia Newland chaired by Lee Randall
3.30pm BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 11 June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Wri...
Welcome Home Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart chaired by Janey Godley
Sponsored by Turcan Connell
4.45pm BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 11 June 2021).
This performance is included in ...
The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father's Search for Justice
Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph chaired by Katie AdieÂ
Sponsored by The Open University in Scotland
6pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 11...
Tales from the Gaeldom's Past Gaelic Historical Crime Fiction
Iain F. MacLeoid and Calum L. Macleoid
Chaired by Maureen MacLeod
6pm BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 11 June 2021).
...
My Rock 'n' Roll Friend
Tracey Thorn chaired by Nicola Meighan
8.30pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 11 June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 festival pass, so yo...
Maggie O'Farrell and Kate Mosse chaired by Zoe Venditozzi
Sponsored by Rathbones
7.15pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 11 June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 fe...
Excavate: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
Bob Stanley & Tessa Norton chaired by Nicola Meighan
9.45pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 11 June 2021).
This performance is in...
How To Stop Fascism
Paul Mason chaired by Ruth Wishart
11.45am BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 12 June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 festival pass, so you will ...
Fish Out-of-Water Memoirs
Tabitha Lasley & Musa Okwonga chaired by Vanessa Collingridge
1pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 12th June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 20...
Extraordinary Stories Based on Real Events
Clare Chambers & Emma Stonex chaired by Lee Randall
2.15pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 12th June 2021).
This performance is included in the ...
The American Way: Stories of Invasion
Ra Page, Orsola Casagrande, Paige Cooper and Jacob Ross
3.30pmpm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 12th June 2021).
This performance is included in the...
A Pair of Explosive Thrillers
Chris Ryan and Billy Billingham chaired by Neil Broadfoot
4.45pm BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 12 June 2021).
This performance is included in the A...
A Renewable Energy Revolution
Todd Westbrook and Stephen Peake chaired by Susan Dalgetty
Sponsored by The Open University in Scotland
4.45pm BST
This event will be live/pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on x...
Of Birds and Men
Charlie Gilmour and Jonathan Meiburg chaired by Ali Braidwood
6pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 13th June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 fest...
Fiction as the New Rock 'n' Roll
Alan Warner & Dawnie Walton chaired by Kirstin Innes
7.15pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 13th June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write ...
Brit Bennett
Chaired by Nicola Sturgeon, MSP, First Minister of Scotland
8.30pm BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 12th June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021...
New Scottish Thrillers
Alan Gillespie, Alison Irvine & Sharon Bairden chaired by Bob McDevitt
10.30am BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 13 June 2021).
This performance is included i...
The Healing Power of Nature
Kathleen Hart and Alexis Fleming chaired by Frankie Burr
11.45am BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 13 June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2...
The Wild Isles
Patrick Barkham, Kapka Kassabova, Esther Woolfson and Amanda Thomson
Sponsored by Charles Stanley
1pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 13 June 2021).
This performance is inc...
Late Bloomers
Mike Gayle and Matt Cain chaired by Theresa Talbot
2.15pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 13 June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 festival pass, so...
Provocative, Elemental Fiction
Diane Cook and Ewan Morrison chaired by Mark West
3.30pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 13th June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021...
Finding Your Way Through Grief
The Reverend Richard Coles & Sasha Bates chaired by Zoe Venditozzi
4.45pm BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 13 June 2021).
This performance is include...
Frank Gardner chaired by Ruth Wishart
6pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 13 June 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 festival pass, so you will not need to purchase...
Finding The Mother Tree
Suzanne Simard chaired by Andrew Painting
7.15pm BST
This event will be live/pre-recorded and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on Mon 14 Jun at 10am).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2...
Celebrating 40 Years of Lanark
Rodge Glass, Sorcha Dallas, Alan Bissett, Colin McIlroy
Sponsored by National Library of Scotland
7.15pm BST
This event will be available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on Mon 14 Jun at 10am).
This p...
Come Again
Robert Webb chaired by Janice Forsyth
8.30pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on Mon 14 Jun at 10am).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 festival pass, so you will...
Aye Write Creative Writing Masterclasses Pass
For events on 29 May.
Masterclass events will be a mixture of live and pre-recorded and will be available to view for 48 hours after broadcast. Andrew O'Hagan's event will be available to view for 3 weeks after broadcast.
The Aye Write Creative Writ...
Victoria Gosling - Story Structure and Form
11.15am BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for 48 hours after broadcast.
This event is included in the Aye Write Creative Writing Masterclasses pass, so you will not need to purchase this event if you have already purchased a ...
Ruth Gilligan - Finding (and re-finding) Your Voice
12:15 BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for 48 hours after broadcast.
This event is included in the Aye Write Creative Writing Masterclasses pass, so you will not need to purchase this event if you have already purch...
Abir Mukherjee - Getting the Setting
1.15pm BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for 48 hours after broadcast.
This event is included in the Aye Write Creative Writing Masterclasses pass, so you will not need to purchase this event if you have already purchased this pass....
Lucy Caldwell - Revising and Editing
2.15pm BST
This event will be pre-recorded and available to watch for 48 hours after broadcast.
This event is included in the Aye Write Creative Writing Masterclasses pass, so you will not need to purchase this event if you have already purchased this pass....
How to get published with Lisa Highton, Louise Lamont, Francis Bickmore, Hannah Robinson chaired by Bob McDevitt
3.30pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for 48 hours after broadcast.
This event is included in the Aye Write Creative Writing Masterclasses pass, so you will not...
Andrew O'Hagan chaired by Rodge Glass
(Part of the Creative Writing Masterclasses Day)
Sponsored by the Tannahill Fund
7pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 19 June 2021).
This performance ...
Ed Miliband, GO BIG: How To Fix Our World chaired by Ruth Wishart
7pm BST
This event will be live and available to watch for three weeks after the broadcast date to accommodate different time zones (removed on 14 July 2021).
This performance is included in the Aye Write 2021 festival pass, so y...
