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Front Row: Edinburgh International Books Festival: Val McDermid talks to Paul Auster and Denise Mina

Val McDermid talks to Paul Auster and Denise Mina

17/08/2017

Edinburgh International Books Festival: Val McDermid talks to Paul Auster and Denise Mina

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Edinburgh International Books Festival: Val McDermid talks to Paul Auster and Denise Mina

Val McDermid at Edinburgh International Books Festival with Paul Auster and Denise Mina.

Val McDermid is at the Edinburgh International Books Festival where she talks to Paul Auster about 4 3 2 1, and to Denise Mina about The Long Drop. Sam Lee performs.

Val McDermid presents a special edition from the Edinburgh International Books Festival.

American author Paul Auster talks about his Man Booker longlisted novel 4 3 2 1, which offers four different versions of the central character's life. 

Denise Mina on her first true crime novel, The Long Drop, about one of Scotland's most notorious criminals, Peter Manuel. 

Glasgow Student Slam Poetry Champion Catherine Wilson performs a poem written specially for Front Row. 

Mike Heron from The Incredible String Band discusses the joint memoir he's written with the Scottish novelist Andrew Greig, You Know What You Could Be. 

Folk singer Sam Lee performs The Incredible String Band song, The Circle is Unbroken. 

Presenter: Val McDermid 
Producer: Timothy Prosser.

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