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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'
    02:23
    Richard Coles: 'It was our ambition to bring down Margaret Thatcher with pop music'
  2. Heather Holliday swallows swords... and a lightsaber
    02:28
    Heather Holliday swallows swords... and a lightsaber
  3. Luke Wright performs Have a Gong
    01:58
    Luke Wright performs Have a Gong
  4. Dean Owens sings Delia's Gone
    02:48
    Dean Owens sings Delia's Gone
  5. Kathryn Joseph sings The Bird
    03:49
    Kathryn Joseph sings The Bird
  6. Dean Owens sings I Still Miss Someone
    03:40
    Dean Owens sings I Still Miss Someone
  7. Kathryn Joseph sings The Outtakes
    05:28
    Kathryn Joseph sings The Outtakes
  8. Kathryn Joseph sings The Worm
    03:03
    Kathryn Joseph sings The Worm
  9. Phill Jupitus, Alan Cox and Marcus Brigstocke
    20:24
    Phill Jupitus, Alan Cox and Marcus Brigstocke
  10. George the Poet on starting to rap aged 15
    02:06
    George the Poet on starting to rap aged 15
  11. Michael Frayn on the idiosyncratic reactions of theatre audiences
    03:37
    Michael Frayn on the idiosyncratic reactions of theatre audiences
  12. Howard Jacobson on literature and political correctness
    00:01
    Howard Jacobson on literature and political correctness
  13. 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'
  14. Anneka Rice talks to Simon McBurney
    09:27
    Anneka Rice talks to Simon McBurney
  15. Robert Lepage on portraying himself in 887
    00:56
    Robert Lepage on portraying himself in 887
  16. Front Row at the Edinburgh Festival
    27:30
    Front Row at the Edinburgh Festival
  17. Fred MacAulay's five festival picks
    01:31
    Fred MacAulay's five festival picks
  18. Sean Michaels and Anna Smaill at Edinburgh International Book Festival
    48:01
    Sean Michaels and Anna Smaill at Edinburgh International Book Festival
  19. Robert Lepage on his Ka show for Cirque du Soleil
    01:45
    Robert Lepage on his Ka show for Cirque du Soleil
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