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Richard Coles: 'It was our ambition to bring down Margaret Thatcher with pop music'
From arriving in London and meeting Jimmy Somerville, to Bronski Beat and Smalltown Boy.
  1. Richard Coles: 'It was our ambition to bring down Margaret Thatcher with pop music'
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    Richard Coles: 'It was our ambition to bring down Margaret Thatcher with pop music'
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    Juliette Binoche on why she hasn't embraced Hollywood
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  4. Basketball Man on Anneka Rice's Edinburgh
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  5. Howard Jacobson reads from his novel J
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    Howard Jacobson reads from his novel J
  6. Liz Lochhead: Credo for working in Scottish theatre
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    Liz Lochhead: Credo for working in Scottish theatre
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    Jazz Line-Up: Darius Brubeck Quartet
  8. Luke Wright performs Have a Gong
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    Luke Wright performs Have a Gong
  9. George the Poet reads See You on the Other Side
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    George the Poet reads See You on the Other Side
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    Jesse Jackson on the Black Lives Matter movement
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    Alexander McCall Smith reads from The Revolving Door of Life
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