UNBOUND: Words Per Minute

Performers got 10 mins to impress with whatever creative talent they could offer in this event. On trial were dazzling playwright and performer Alan Bissett and US phenomenon Adam Levin. This clip, filmed live during an Unbound session at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, features Alan Bissett doing his best to entertain a fully appreciative audience.

Loading the player... if your browser supports audio and video it should appear in a few moments.

Book Festival News

Celebrating the 2024 Book Festival Celebrating the 2024 Book Festival
Monday 26 August

Enjoying this event? You can help us produce more like it.

Donate

Share

Watch more

Jeff VanderMeer: The End of All Things? Jeff VanderMeer: The End of All Things? When he first came to Edinburgh some years ago to discuss his speculative eco thriller Annihilation, we suspected that Jeff VanderMeer would become one of the best-respected science fiction authors of his age. What we didn’t realise was that Cli-Fi… Douglas Stuart with Nicola Sturgeon: Welcome Home, Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart with Nicola Sturgeon: Welcome Home, Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart’s life was turned upside down when his debut novel Shuggie Bain was declared winner of the 2020 Booker Prize. Overnight, the New York-based fashion designer, who grew up in Glasgow, became an international literary bestseller. We are… Chris Riddell (2016 Event) Chris Riddell (2016 Event) Award-winning author Siobhan Dowd died in 2007, bequeathing her royalties to a trust which aims to bring the joy of reading to those who need it most. In 2016, the Book Festival's Siobhan Dowd Trust Memorial Lecture was delivered by Children's Laureate… Aleksandar Hemon: Man’s Inhumanity to Man Aleksandar Hemon: Man’s Inhumanity to Man He’s already celebrated as a leading international author, with books including The Lazarus Project under his belt, but Aleksandar Hemon’s new novel The World and All That It Holds is surely his most powerful yet. Set in Sarajevo in 1914, it’s an epic… Daisy Lafarge & Evie Wyld: Strong Female Lead Daisy Lafarge & Evie Wyld: Strong Female Lead Evie Wyld won the Stella Prize – Australia’s version of the Women’s Prize – for her modern gothic novel The Bass Rock earlier this year, a tale of how violence and power has been wielded against women across centuries and in different guises to isolate or… Claire Askew & Kate Foster: Tales of Two Edinburghs Claire Askew & Kate Foster: Tales of Two Edinburghs What is it about the Scottish capital that makes it such fertile ground for fictionalised mystery? Claire Askew’s The Dead Don’t Speak sees DI Helen Birch drawn back into action when an anonymous vigilante starts stalking the streets of Edinburgh. Kate… George Monbiot - pt4 George Monbiot - pt4 Passionate campaigner for environmental and social change, George Monbiot gives us practical, powerful solutions on a global scale of how to prevent further destruction of our planet through climate change in this 2007 event. The video of this event is… Interview - Bonnie Greer (2014) Interview - Bonnie Greer (2014) We caught up with the wonderful Bonnie Greer before her Book Festival event for a quick chat about the first volume of her memoirs, A Parallel Life. You can also see her hour-long event, filmed live at Edinburgh International Book Festival, here on our… Matt Haig: Reasons to Feel Okay Matt Haig: Reasons to Feel Okay Since the publication of his 2015 memoir Reasons to Stay Alive, Matt Haig has become one of Britain’s best-loved and bestselling authors, gently guiding his legion of fans on a path towards better mental health. Haig’s most recent novel The Midnight… UNBOUND: Electric Lit Orchestra UNBOUND: Electric Lit Orchestra Writers’ Bloc are modern day champions of the Scottish literary tradition the fantastique, and offer weird and wonderful tales…