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Liz Lochhead: How To Be a Romantic Poet
Liz Lochhead reads How To Be a Romantic Poet at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
  1. Liz Lochhead: How To Be a Romantic Poet
    03:37
    Liz Lochhead: How To Be a Romantic Poet
  2. Val McDermid's advice to Nicola Sturgeon and aspiring writers: 'Just do it'
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    Val McDermid's advice to Nicola Sturgeon and aspiring writers: 'Just do it'
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  3. Val McDermid on the Scottish referendum: 'We wanted to call our house swithering heights'
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith reads from The Revolving Door of Life
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    Alexander McCall Smith reads from The Revolving Door of Life
  5. 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'
  6. Jazz Line-Up: Corrina Hewat and Dave Milligan
    10:50
    Jazz Line-Up: Corrina Hewat and Dave Milligan
  7. Jazz Line-Up: Closing set from the Darius Brubeck Quartet
    15:40
    Jazz Line-Up: Closing set from the Darius Brubeck Quartet
  8. Phill Jupitus, Alan Cox and Marcus Brigstocke
    20:24
    Phill Jupitus, Alan Cox and Marcus Brigstocke
  9. Liz Lochhead: Credo for working in Scottish theatre
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    Liz Lochhead: Credo for working in Scottish theatre
  10. Robert Lepage on portraying himself in 887
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    Robert Lepage on portraying himself in 887
  11. Cabaret Acrobat, Danik Abishev
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    Cabaret Acrobat, Danik Abishev
  12. 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
  13. Kathryn Joseph sings The Bird
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    Kathryn Joseph sings The Bird
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