AN UPDATE: This has been cancelled because Nicola Surgeon has resigned.
I am on my way to Pitlochry this morning. It's a 430 mile trip. The reason is that I will be appearing on Debate Night on BBC Scotland tonight, which is being recorded this evening at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre for broadcast at 10.30pm on BBC Scotland. You can get it in the rest of the UK on iPlayer. Just look for BBC Scotland.
For those not familiar with it, Debate Night is the BBC Scotland equivalent of Question Time. The format is pretty similar. Five guests, three of whom are politicians, face questions from the audience that they then have to comment upon.
It should be fun.
I am also looking forward to a little time in Pitlochry itself. It is many years since I last visited, and then for a concert at the same theatre.
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Will look forward to the debate. Can’t usually bear Question Time – hope you can cut through into the usual forbidden territory. Pitlochry – great part of the world – on the night of the brexit referendum I had to get away – overnight Euston to Blair Atholl and straight up to the top of Carn Liath.
Cancelled now, I am afraid
I am told there will be another time
I can remember many, many years ago attending delightful productions of witty, cynical Restoration Comedies, in the summer at the Pitlochry Theatre (in the charming, gracious semi-permanent-temporary sturcture in which it was housed, before they built the present rather more utilitarian theatre – which has much less sense of ‘theatre’ about it – that replaced it).
Pitlochry is lovely. Pop in to the Moulin Inn, which is one of the oldest droving inns in Scotland and has its own craft brewery. Moulin is because Gaelic adopted the French word for a mill.
It will have to be another time Tim
BBC Scotland has cancelled the planned broadcast tonight and replaced the whole panel with others who will discuss Sturgeon
I am heading for home having only got as far as Newcastle
In regard to the alleged celebrity chef Nick Nairn, who I know personally, but isn’t actually very famous: I notice that he has not been replaced for tonight’s broadcast of Debate Night despite today’s events.
I am the only person who has been
They planned to replace everyone I am told
Then newscasters went to Edinburgh so the politicians would not go to Pitlochry but I had already been told to head for home….
Oh well….
I would hope that you reject any future overtures from a broadcaster that fibs to you like that.
I will see what happens