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

Edinburgh Festival, Philippa Gregory, Adura Onashile, Liz Lochhead

15/08/2016

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

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Showstopper, Philippa Gregory, Adura Onashile, Liz Lochhead at the Edinburgh Festival

John Wilson is in Edinburgh with guests including Philippa Gregory and Liz Lochhead.

John Wilson presents from the Edinburgh Festival with guests including novelist Philippa Gregory, poet Liz Lochhead, playwright Adura Onashile and improv troupe The Showstoppers.

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.

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