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Front Row: Highlights from the Edinburgh Fringe

Highlights from the Edinburgh Fringe

18/08/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Highlights from the Edinburgh Fringe

Highlights from the Edinburgh Fringe, including drama, comedy and music, with Mark Lawson.

Highlights from Edinburgh 2010, including Tim Vine on the power of corny jokes, pianist Rainer Hersch on Victor Borge and actress Mercy Ojelade on a play about sex trafficking.

As the 64th Edinburgh Fringe Festival reaches its halfway stage, Mark Lawson presents a taste of the acts making waves and clocking up five-star reviews.

Before a live audience, Tim Vine - master of the single-line gag - attempts to get to grips with our fascination for good old-fashioned corny jokes. Former stand-up and classical pianist Rainer Hersch offers his tribute to the late Danish comic and acclaimed pianist Victor Borge. Eugene Pack and James Lance wonder at the sheer lack of self-awareness of the celebrity autobiographers from Mr T and Eminem to Tiger Woods and Katie Price.

And actress Mercy Ojelade describes playing the protagonist of the play that's attracting a great deal of attention - Roadkill - which takes the tiny audience on a trip to a secret location in Edinburgh to tell the true life story of a girl sex-trafficked from Nigeria to Scotland.

And if the spoken word is not your thing, The Boy With Tape On His Face presents a whole hour of stand-up comedy without uttering a sound. 

Producer Jerome Weatherald.

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