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Richard Coles: 'It was our ambition to bring down Margaret Thatcher with pop music'
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  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. Howard Jacobson reads from his novel J
    06:24
    Howard Jacobson reads from his novel J
  3. Phill Jupitus, Alan Cox and Marcus Brigstocke
    20:24
    Phill Jupitus, Alan Cox and Marcus Brigstocke
  4. Kathryn Joseph sings The Bird
    03:49
    Kathryn Joseph sings The Bird
  5. Basketball Man on Anneka Rice's Edinburgh
    00:56
    Basketball Man on Anneka Rice's Edinburgh
  6. Kathryn Joseph sings The Worm
    03:03
    Kathryn Joseph sings The Worm
  7. Robert Lepage on 'choosing the prison' of Shakespeare
    00:37
    Robert Lepage on 'choosing the prison' of Shakespeare
  8. Alexander McCall Smith reads from The Revolving Door of Life
    03:11
    Alexander McCall Smith reads from The Revolving Door of Life
  9. Mexican Writing, An Insider's View with Gabriel Orozco at Edinburgh International Book Festival
    57:33
    Mexican Writing, An Insider's View with Gabriel Orozco at Edinburgh International Book Festival
  10. Liz Lochhead: How To Be a Romantic Poet
    03:37
    Liz Lochhead: How To Be a Romantic Poet
  11. Inside the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: A Bollywood Love Story
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    Inside the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: A Bollywood Love Story
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