{"id":706863,"date":"2026-07-23T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706863\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T10:11:11","slug":"bill-paterson-back-in-wigtown-with-memoir-after-nearly-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706863\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Paterson back in Wigtown with memoir after nearly 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really looking forward to returning to Wigtown after nearly 20 years,&#8221; said Paterson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The festival has grown so much in that time and this year&#8217;s programme looks dazzlingly varied.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Others taking part this year include comedian Lucy Porter, actor Sam Heughan and broadcaster Sophie Raworth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Isla Rosser-Owen, chief executive of the Wigtown Festival Company, said: &#8220;There&#8217;s so much in this year&#8217;s programme &#8211; life stories, family tales, Scottish fiction, witchcraft, crime, poetry, film, theatre, young adult and children&#8217;s literature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the line-up included household names alongside up-and-coming debut novelists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;m really looking forward to returning to Wigtown after nearly 20 years,&#8221; said Paterson. &#8220;The festival has grown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}