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Richard Coles: 'It was our ambition to bring down Margaret Thatcher with pop music'
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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'
  2. Funmbi Omotayo, BBC Presents the Next Big Thing
    01:38
    Funmbi Omotayo, BBC Presents the Next Big Thing
  3. Maggie O’Farrell on the books that inspired her childhood
    02:05
    Maggie O’Farrell on the books that inspired her childhood
  4. Alexander McCall Smith reads from The Revolving Door of Life
    03:11
    Alexander McCall Smith reads from The Revolving Door of Life
  5. Jazz Line-Up: Alison Affleck sings Billie Holiday
    11:10
    Jazz Line-Up: Alison Affleck sings Billie Holiday
  6. Simon McBurney: Welcome to the jungle
    08:33
    Simon McBurney: Welcome to the jungle
  7. Howard Jacobson on literature and political correctness
    00:01
    Howard Jacobson on literature and political correctness
  8. Jazz Line-Up: Closing set from the Darius Brubeck Quartet
    15:40
    Jazz Line-Up: Closing set from the Darius Brubeck Quartet
  9. Val McDermid on the Scottish referendum: 'We wanted to call our house swithering heights'
    02:45
    Val McDermid on the Scottish referendum: 'We wanted to call our house swithering heights'
  10. Inside the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: Massed Pipes and Drums
    06:06
    Inside the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: Massed Pipes and Drums
  11. Michael Frayn on the idiosyncratic reactions of theatre audiences
    03:37
    Michael Frayn on the idiosyncratic reactions of theatre audiences
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