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EIF Conversations: Marin Alsop
The conductor talks to Deborah Bull ahead of her Edinburgh International Festival concert.
- EIF Conversations: Marin Alsop
- B Dolan
- Sage Francis
- Poets: Leyla Josephine
- Jonathan Safran Foer on writing his first book in ten years
- Erica Jong on sex and ageing
- Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America
- Irvine Welsh on Trainspotting 2
- Alan Cumming on a meeting with Oprah
- Alan Cumming on flying to America - for the first time - with Ruby Wax
- Tommy Sandhu gets hyped
- Trying Weight Watchers
- Asking are you in or out
- "Music can change your hair"
- The school bus rap
- Pushing onto trains
- Watching Taken with your mum
- First ever fun run
- Rappers: Ransom FA
- The keyboard with a mind of its own
- "I couldn't have loved that family anymore"
- Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust
- Rock 'n' Roll at the Edinburgh Fringe
- "Everyone has a lot of lanyards on"
- The difference between Glasgow and Edinburgh festivals
- "Socks that agreed with him"
- "Thespians who have children"
- Marin Alsop on her speech at the Last Night of the Proms
- Marin Alsop: 'The need to pigeonhole music is limiting'
- Marin Alsop on leading the BBC Proms virtual orchestra
- James Kelman: Too Scottish?
- Tim Burgess: What happened when I asked Lou Reed for an autograph
- Edinburgh Dazzle ship: Timelapse
- Tim Burgess on a chance meeting with Steve Martin
- 'Do you believe in fairies?'
- Marina Warner: 'Fairy tales are in the DNA of cultures'
- Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents
- Jackie Kay reads A Lang Promise
- Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia
- Alexei Sayle on life and 'inventing' British comedy







































