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Richard Coles: 'It was our ambition to bring down Margaret Thatcher with pop music'
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  2. Darren Walsh at BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals
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  3. 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
  4. Simon Cartwright as Bob Monkhouse
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  5. Inside the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: Top Secret Drum Corps
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