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Live from The Edinburgh Festival, including film-maker Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien on his film Lessons of the Hour; playwright and poet Hannah Lavery's play Lament for Sheku Bayoh; comedy from Just These Please; Scottish singer Siobhan Miller.

This year's Edinburgh Festival is a smaller affair than normal but it's packed full of delicious cultural goodness. We speak with film director Isaac Julien about Lessons of The Hour- a 10-screen film about the former slave and emancipationist Frederick Douglass who visited Edinburgh many times.

Just These Please is a four-piece comedy group who have had more than 6m views on YouTube for their sketches and whose Edinburgh Fringe show has sold out.

Poet and playwright Hannah Lavery has many works at the festival - Lament for Sheku Bayoh is a play about a young black Scottish man who died in police custody in 2015. She has also co-written Eavesdropping, a guided audio walk around Edinburgh.

Siobhan Miller won her first singing prize at the age of 13 and is the only three-times winner of Scots Singer of the Year. She's playing a gig at the festival with her band and has a new album All Is Not Forgotten, and she plays live for us at The BBC site in Infirmary Street, Edinburgh.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Oliver Jones

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Wed 18 Aug 202119:15
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Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien's exhibition Lessons of the Hour, 2019 is at the National Gallery of Scotland Modern Art (Modern One) for Edinburgh Art Festival 2021 until 10 October 2021. Main image above: Isaac Julien CBE RA with part of his work Lessons of the Hour. Image credit: Duncan McGlynn. Image to the left: Quotations, Isaac Julien Lessons of the Hour, 2019 Installation view. Image credit: Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice Photo: Sally Jubb Photography

Just These Please

Just These Please
Just These Please's show No Worries If Not is at the Gilded Balloon Teviot Wine Bar as part of the Edinburgh Fringe until 21 August 2021. Suitable for ages of 14+. Image: The Just These Please comedy group

Hannah Lavery

Hannah Lavery
Live performances of Hannah Lavery's play Lament for Sheku Bayoh, are streamed online from the stage the Royal Lyceum Theatre, in co-production with Edinburgh International Festival from 25 - 28 August 2021. Thirteen Fragments, Hannah Lavery's artistic response to the RSE Post Covid 19 Futures Commission is also available to stream online from the National Theatre of Scotland until 27 August 2021.

A link to Eavesdropping, Hannah Lavery and Sarah MacGillivray's on-demand location-based walking audio play is available from Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh now, and goes live from 22 August 2021. Hannah Lavery's play Musselburgh is on R4 on 30 August 2021.
Image: Hannah Lavery.

Siobhan Miller

Siobhan Miller
Siobhan Miller is playing at the Edinburgh International Festival at Old College Quad, Edinburgh on 22 August 202. Siobhan Miller tours the UK in September 2021. Her album All is Not Forgotten is out now. Image: Siobhan Miller Image credit: (c) Elly Lucas

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