Chris Brookmyre: All Back To Mine

Episode Two. Recorded at Europa Music, Stirling during the Bloody Scotland crime writing festival.

Welcome to A Kick Up The Arts, a new Scottish Arts & Culture Podcast with Nicola Meighan, which comes in two parts…

Part one is a weekly(-ish!) round-table discussion with brilliant guests in arts spaces around the country – they’ll come out every Thursday – and you can listen to the first one, with writers Chitra Ramaswamy and Hannah Lavery, recorded at the Scottish Poetry Library, now…

Part two is a monthly special – A Kick Up The Arts: All Back To Mine – where a well-loved musician / writer / actor / comedian / artist gives us a virtual night in, round at theirs. They’ll choose a Scottish album to play us, a Scottish film to show us, and a Scottish book for some bed-time reading, and we’ll chat about all of that. They might even chuck in a snack or two.

And the first of these is right here, right now! I’m thrilled that it’s thanks to the righteous and excellent Chris Brookmyre, recorded at Stirling’s vinyl paradise, Europa Music, during crime writing festival Bloody Scotland.

What movie would Chris fire up on the VHS, and how did it inadvertently influence his McIlvanney Prize-winning latest novel, The Cracked Mirror? What book got him through a nightmare train journey? And what’s his guacamole recipe? Listen on wherever you get your podcasts, at the audio links at the top of this page, or right here!