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2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)

29 Episodes • By Edinburgh International Book Festival • www.edbookfest.co.uk/
The Book Festival welcomed hundreds of authors from countries across the world to take part in over 900 events. Literary heavyweights joined popular bestsellers and talented newcomers in the Book Festival’s home, a specially-created tented village in central Edinburgh. They shared their stories with ...more
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Harriet Harman (2017 Event)
GENDER POLITICS When Harriet Harman was elected in ... more
Feb 16 2019 57m
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Outriders: Harry Giles & Katherena Vermette (2017 Event)
Canada: Montreal to Hudson Bay As part of our proje... more
Feb 16 2019 51m
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Jess Phillips (2017 Event)
Telling the Truth Journalist Julie Burchill calls h... more
Feb 16 2019 1h 4m
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Jemima Foxtrot, Iona Lee, Sabrina Mahfouz & Sophia Walker (2017 Event)
PHENOMENAL WOMEN SPEAK OUT While comedy still strug... more
Feb 16 2019 54m
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Sebastian Barry (2017 Event)
Love Amid the Carnage of War Anyone who has heard Se... more
Feb 16 2019 55m
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Limmy (2017 Event)
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS OF THE COMEDIC KIND The short, sha... more
Nov 27 2017 56m
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Harry Baker (2017 Event)
PERFORMING POETRY WITH CHARM Meet the man who is a ... more
Nov 27 2017 56m
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Robert Webb (2017 Event)
UNDERSTANDING THE MALE OF THE SPECIES What is it to... more
Nov 13 2017 56m
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Conor Gearty & Douglas Murray (2017 Event)
EUROPE: ACTS AND COUNTERACTS In The Strange Death o... more
Nov 10 2017 57m
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Laird Hunt & Colson Whitehead (2017 Event)
A TOUR OF AMERICA RACE IN AMERICA Two of the finest... more
Nov 8 2017 1h
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Christine Otten & The Last Poets (2017 Evet)
MEET THE POETS WHO CHANGED AMERICA The Last Poets w... more
Nov 6 2017 1h 7m
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Juliana Buhring (2017 Event)
THE CYCLE OF LIFE FOR A RECORD-BREAKER Feats of hum... more
Oct 30 2017 53m
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Raja Shehadeh (2017 Event)
CROSSING BOUNDARIES Brave, intelligent and deeply p... more
Oct 27 2017 59m
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Richard Ford (2017 Event)
FILIAL BOND Richard Ford is one of America’s greate... more
Oct 25 2017 55m
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Juno Dawson & C N Lester (2017 Event)
TRANSITIONS What makes a woman a woman? Is it her b... more
Oct 23 2017 54m
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Outriders: Ximena Escalante & Stef Smith (2017 Event)
MEXICO: FROM THE US BORDER TO GUATEMALA As part of ... more
Oct 18 2017 48m
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Jim Al-Khalili (2017 Event)
IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? For decades we’ve been ... more
Oct 16 2017 58m
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John Burnside (2017 Event)
UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIPS One of the most acclaimed write... more
Oct 16 2017 56m
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Outriders: Mariana Enriquez & Kevin MacNeil (2017 event)
ARGENTINA: IN SEARCH OF UFOS As part of our project... more
Oct 11 2017 59m
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Outriders: Jennifer Haigh & Malachy Tallack (2017 Event)
USA: FROM NORTH DAKOTA TO NEW ORLEANS As part of ou... more
Oct 4 2017 57m
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Siri Hustvedt (2017 Event)
A LIFE OF ART AND SCIENCE More than 50 years after ... more
Oct 4 2017 57m
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Andy Hamilton (2017 Event)
OUT OF THE SCRIPTWRITING SHADOWS Comic Andy Hamilto... more
Sep 30 2017 1h
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Stephen Baxter (2017 Event)
THE MARTIANS ARE COMING! In the 1990s, Stephen Baxt... more
Sep 29 2017 56m
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Outriders: Bonnie Jo Campbell & Jenni Fagan (2017 Event)
USA: FROM THE RUST BELT TO SILICON VALLEY As part o... more
Sep 27 2017 59m
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Meena Kandasamy & Helen McClory (2017 Evebet)
WELLS OF LONELINESS Indian poet, novelist, activist... more
Sep 25 2017 54m
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