Fringe at Panmure 2024

Fringe returns to Panmure for 2024! Mark your calendars to secure your tickets. On sale from Thursday 9 May.
Take this rare opportunity to visit the iconic Panmure House during Edinburgh's most exciting month. Make sure to head along to the venue early to soak in the atmosphere and enjoy the bar before your show begins.

Fascinated with Edinburgh's history? Want to learn more about the Scottish Enlightenment, its leading figures, and have a blast while doing it?
Returning for its second year, aimed at those aged 8-12, this fun sixty-minute clue solving activity teaches you and your child about the rich history of Edinburgh during the Scottish Enlightenment. Includes a certificate and medal of completion. You may even meet a special guest!
Young people must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Debuting at Panmure House for 2024. From the host of BBC Radio 4’s Simon Evans Goes to Market comes this humorous, even mischievous celebration of the friendship at the heart of the Scottish Enlightenment. A wider examination of their unique intellectual legacy, from the birth of political economy as a discipline, through the navigations of a genial empiricist in a deeply pious world, to the single greatest unleashing of talent per capita in the history of the modern world. It has never been more important to remind Scots of their birth right, of robust and vigorous debate!

Concerned about the economy? Join Merryn Somerset Webb as she interviews, debates, and argues with a well-known group of economics, politics and financial gurus. This is a firm favourite guaranteed to sell out.
Audience participation is invited and welcomed.

Catch up with the Merryn Talks Money podcast on Apple, Spotify and other major podcast platforms. Click the QR link below to listen to the latest episode.

Japan has got what it takes to be an economic superpower and role model. Japan's social resilience, political stability, corporate competitiveness and creative innovation are poised to deliver positive surprises – not just economic growth and investment opportunities but, more importantly, as a source of inspiration for a new generation of global creators and leaders. Japan expert Jesper Koll, embedded in Japanese society for over thirty years, uncovers a world well beyond transistor salesmen or lost generations of demographic doom. You'll laugh and learn why Japan is capitalism that really works.
Jesper Koll has been researching and investing in Japan since becoming a resident in 1986. Over the past decades, Jesper has been consistently recognized as one of the top Japan strategists/economists. He currently serves as Expert Director for the Monex Group and the Japan Catalyst Fund (Japan’s 1st retail investor based corporate engagement/activist fund). In 2022, he was appointed Global Ambassador for Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike’s Tokyo Financial Center initiative. 
Jesper is an economist, angel-investor, patron; and yes, a Japan Optimist. 

A Panmure House regular, Dominic Frisby presents a new lecture with funny bits about the extraordinary history of mining. From cavemen with pickaxes to modern-day excavators, humans have been mining metal since the Bronze Age. Entire nations have been built on the backs of mining booms. Discover how digging stuff up changed everything.

Our first regular evening show, this witty and entertaining show promises plenty of laughs and one or two things you may not know about the Scottish Enlightenment and its luminary thinkers.
Alfred North Whitehead characterised the European philosophical tradition as 'a series of footnotes to Plato'. We beg to differ. Influential as the Big Beards were, the modern world began with Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment. Join Fringe stalwart, BBC Radio 4 regular, creator of Jokenomics and Economedy and general intellectual magpie and dilettante Simon Evans for a brisk canter through the 250-year legacy of The Sage of Kirkcaldy. May contain visible hands. Praise for past work: 'A masterclass' ***** (Scotsman); 'Jaw dropping' ****½ (Chortle.co.uk).