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The Festival Cafe: 16/08/2012

Festival Café: 16 August 2012

16/08/2012

BBC Radio Scotland - The Festival Cafe, 16/08/2012

Tom Thum pushes the limits of the human voice to create a mind-blowing soundscape!

Clare English and Janice Forsyth hear about Edinburgh shows from Tom Thum, Iain Robertson and David Bottomley.

Tom Thum - Returning to Edinburgh for his first time as a solo act, human synthesizer Tom Thum is here to conquer his addiction to beatboxing.

Angels: Iain Robertson discusses his new play - David Lynch meets Rebus in this uproarious, underworld whodunnit, reworking the hardboiled crime thriller for our times; a suspicious death at the workplace and loner security guard Nick Prentice is hauled in Kafka style for interrogation. Detective Crichton believes he's got Prentice bang to rights. Nick's handwritten seedy wee 'stories' seem to nail him to the crime. Is Prentice complicit in the death of two-bit shoplifter Gary Glover? Will Hollywood's uber-babe Scarlett Johansson rescue our unlikely antihero?

Horrible Histories We all want to meet people from history. The trouble is everyone is dead! So it's time to prepare yourselves for Horrible Histories live on stage! Have you ever wondered why the Romans never won MasterChef? What if a Viking moved in next door? Has William Wallace met his match? Would you lose your heart or head to Henry VIII? Will Parliament survive gunpowder Guy? Escape the clutches of Burke and Hare and find out what a baby farmer did! We hear about this horrible history of Britain with the nasty bits left in!

Desert Island Discs: David Bottomley discusses his affectionate homage to a national radio treasure. Unplugged and live at the piano. We take a nostalgic skinny-dip into our host's Desert Island Discs. An intimate poetical odyssey from the port of Whitby to London's Thames.

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