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FRIDAY 09 AUGUST
Presented by Mark Lawson.

EDINBURGH FRINGE SPECIAL

ALAN DAVIES
Mark Lawson interviews Alan Davies, best-known for his role in Jonathan Creek, who this week in Edinburgh made his professional stage-acting debut in the Canadian play Aunty & Me by Morris Panych.

Aunty & Me is at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh until August 25.
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OMID DJALLILI/STEPHEN ARMSTRONG
Iranian comedian Omid Djallili talks to Mark Lawson about reflecting aspects of the events of September 11 in his act. Stephen Armstrong, who writes about comedy for The Sunday Times discusses how much of the comedy at the Fringe this year is notably post September 11.

Omid Djallili is appearing at the Pleasance Theatre.
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BOMBITTY OF ERRORS
LIVE performance of Bombitty of Errors, an American rap version of Comedy Of Errors.
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TAMING OF THE SHREW
There are three different productions of The Taming Of A Shrew on offer at the Fringe this year. Ian Peacock has seen them all and reports back on what it's like to see the same play three times through different eyes?
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CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE
Mark Lawson interviews novelist Christopher Brookmyre about his comic and violent crime novels.

A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away is published by Abacus (ISBN: 0349114676)

The Sacred Art of Stealing will be published in October by Abacus (Abacus ISBN: 0349115540)
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