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The Broad’s Seasonal Recommendations: Our Top Picks from November
The Broad’s Creative Team is back with their favourite song, film, and book choices from the past month! LISTEN Srishti’s Recommendation:...
Srishti Ramakrishnan, Sorcha Tipping, and Kristy Galbraith
Dec 7, 20244 min read
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Review: The End of the Line
The End of the Line , Theatre Paradok Rating: ★ ★ ★. 5 The End of the Line introduces us to six almost-strangers, the last people on the...
Isabella Lapadula
Nov 17, 20243 min read
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Review: The Boys in the Band
The Boys in the Band , Bedlam Theatre What makes a 1960s play about closeted gay men resonate so deeply in 2024? When I heard that Bedlam...
Alex Stevens
Nov 4, 20244 min read
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The Broad’s Seasonal Recommendations: What to Read if You’re Missing Summer
Our Creative Director Srishti Ramakrishnan reflects on her top ten book recommendations for when the chilly Edinburgh winter has you...
Srishti Ramakrishnan
Oct 30, 20247 min read
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The Broad’s Seasonal Recommendations: Our Top Picks for October
The Broad’s seasonal recommendations are back! In this edition, our new Creative Team, Srishti Ramakrishnan, Sorcha Tipping, and Kristy...
Srishti Ramakrishnan, Sorcha Tipping, and Kristy Galbraith
Oct 30, 20244 min read
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Pouring change: brands' impact on sustainable food consumption
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq ‘If you want to change the world, change your milk’ – Plenish Drinks In today’s climate-conscious...
Lara Engel
Apr 6, 20244 min read
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Navigating the Lens: The Social Media Generation's Impact on Professional Photography
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq In the era where smartphones have become an extension of the hand, so has the camera of the eye; the...
Saskia Koopman
Mar 3, 20243 min read
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(Hyper)reality TV: the Future of Reality Television in the Social Media Age
‘Receipts! Proof! Timelines! Screenshots!’ Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq It was the reckoning heard around the world. The recent finale...
Sylvie Evans
Mar 1, 20244 min read
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A Digital Dark Age: The Problem with Conserving Granny’s Facebook Status
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq In 1977, The Voyager probes were launched into space, each one containing a Golden Record which harboured...
Zoe Milton
Feb 19, 20244 min read
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The ‘Rotting Girl’ Aesthetic: Madeline Argy and Pretty Privilege
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq ‘Clean Girl Aesthetic’ seems to have taken the Western world by storm. Everywhere I turn there’s a girl...
Ellie Valentine
Feb 2, 20245 min read
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Unmasking the Realities of ‘Net Zero’
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq As COP28 draws to a close, the ‘Net Zero’ buzzword is ubiquitous as ever. Net Zero refers to reaching an...
Lara Engel
Jan 16, 20243 min read
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Review: The Welkin
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ As 18th century Suffolk awaits Halley’s comet, twelve women hold the fate of Sally Poppy in their hands. Sentenced to...
Isabella Lapadula
Nov 16, 20233 min read
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Scotland’s Fate: A Plea to Non-Scottish Students at the University of Edinburgh
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq The University of Edinburgh is a strongly international space. While three-tenths of its undergrads are...
Robert Thorne
Nov 8, 20235 min read
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The Resurrection of Fresh Air: In Conversation with Edinburgh’s Student Radio Station
Our Creative Director, Jasmine Owen Moulding, chatted with Fresh Air’s Station Manager -Elizabeth Ashley, Assistant Station Manager –...
Jasmine Owen-Moulding
Oct 23, 20236 min read
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Albion: A Review
Albion - ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Haunted by a dead England, a dead friendship, and a dead son; a woman sits in a doomed garden, alone. Bedlam Theatre’s...
Finn Tyson
Oct 18, 20234 min read
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The guy doesn’t get the girl: The importance of female friendships in film and literature
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq From children’s fairy tales where the heroine marries the prince, to Hollywood films where the ‘guy gets...
Sorcha Tipping
Sep 19, 20233 min read
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Fanning the flames of climate doomism: Reigniting hope through the media
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq ‘Devastating Wildfires’, 'Extreme Temperatures', 'Rising Tides of Doom' — the media is adopting an...
Lara Engel
Sep 7, 20233 min read
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Ultra-fast fashion: where others fail, Shein succeeds
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq In recent months fast fashion giant ASOS has recorded unprecedented losses. Leading up to February, sales...
Tasha Stewart
Aug 28, 20234 min read
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Barbie: How the patriarchy’s mascot became a feminist icon
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Barbie was never meant to be a feminist. For decades, Barbie dolls have young girls’ first encounters...
Gem Kirwan
Aug 28, 20234 min read
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Huw Edwards and the Problems of a Modern-Day Scandal
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq Early July saw Huw Edwards become the latest presenter to face scrutiny over claims that he paid a...
Nelly Laycock
Aug 28, 20234 min read
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