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Showstopper, Philippa Gregory, Adura Onashile, Liz Lochhead at the Edinburgh Festival

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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John Wilson at the Edinburgh Festival, with novelist Philippa Gregory on her latest Tudor novel, Three Sisters, Three Queens.

Adura Onashile discusses her play Expensive Sh*t, the story of a woman who works in the toilets of a nightclub, based on Glasgow's Shimmy Club. Sabina Cameron performs an extract of the play.

Scottish poet Liz Lochhead talks about the ancient role of the Makar, the Scottish Poet Laureate. The troupe behind the award-winning improv musical Showstopper perform an impromptu song and Pippa Evans and Adam Meggido discuss the value of improvisation to theatre and the growing appetite for it at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Producer: Dixi Stewart. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Philippa Gregory
Interviewed Guest:
Adura Onashile
Interviewed Guest:
Liz Lochhead
Interviewed Guest:
The Showstoppers
Interviewed Guest:
Pippa Evans
Interviewed Guest:
Adam Meggido
Producer:
Dixi Stewart

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