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Fred MacAulay's five festival picks
The festival pro and broadcaster gives us his Edinburgh favourites
  1. Fred MacAulay's five festival picks
    01:31
    Fred MacAulay's five festival picks
  2. Jesse Jackson: 'Can you imagine a state in Germany having the right to fly a Nazi flag?'
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    Jesse Jackson: 'Can you imagine a state in Germany having the right to fly a Nazi flag?'
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  3. Jesse Jackson on the Black Lives Matter movement
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    Jesse Jackson on the Black Lives Matter movement
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  4. Claire Fuller and Nick Holdstock at Edinburgh International Book Festival
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    Claire Fuller and Nick Holdstock at Edinburgh International Book Festival
  5. Luke Wright performs Have a Gong
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    Luke Wright performs Have a Gong
  6. Michael Frayn on the idiosyncratic reactions of theatre audiences
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    Michael Frayn on the idiosyncratic reactions of theatre audiences
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  8. Bernat Klein and Kwang Young Chun at Dovecot Gallery
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  9. Robert Lepage
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  10. Allan Little and Sheena MacDonald read a passage by Michael Frayn
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    Allan Little and Sheena MacDonald read a passage by Michael Frayn
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    Front Row at the Edinburgh Festival
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    George the Poet at Edinburgh International Book Festival
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