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Michael Ondaatje: Roots and Restlessness

Saturday 10 August 17:00 - 18:00

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If you know Michael Ondaatje’s beautiful, lyrical fiction, you won't be surprised to learn that over 50 years ago the Booker Prize-winner of The English Patient began his career as a poet. Today, in a special digital event, Ondaatje shares his first…
 

The Front List: Alan Cumming & Forbes Masson in conversation with Jackie Kay

Saturday 10 August 19:20 - 20:35

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One of Scotland’s most beloved comedy double acts of all time, Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson, are delving back into their comedy past, to present ‘Victor and Barry’s Kelvinside Compendium’, a riotous romp through their formative years treading the…
 

Elif Shafak: Rivers and Roads

Saturday 10 August 19:30 - 20:30

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Elif Shafak’s latest novel explores profound connections across borders and sees her immersed deep in the mysteries of water. Today the Booker Prize nominated author of The Island of Missing Trees launches There are Rivers in the Sky, a luminous story of…
 

Jess Phillips: A Breath of Fresh Air

Sunday 11 August 12:15 - 13:15

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‘Your leader was beaten by a woman who was beaten by a lettuce’ – so begins a recent online-retort from Labour’s Jess Phillips in typically direct style. One of the nation’s most outspoken MPs, Phillips stands out for her integrity. She talks to Liz…
 

Make a Supersonic Beano Comic

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Sunday 11 August 14:00 - 15:00

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Make a supersonic Beano comic*! Beano’s Directors of Mischief and Mayhem, Mike Stirling and Craig Graham reveal their top tips for creating laugh-out-loud stories and pictures, share jokes from their latest Beano Boomic, Minnie and the Camp of Chaos, AND…
 

Olivia Laing: In Search of Eden

Sunday 11 August 15:45 - 16:45

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When Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, she also embarked upon an imaginative discovery of the pleasures and possibilities of gardens through the ages. The Garden Against Time explores their significance in Western culture, from…
 

Kevin Barry: Love on the Road

Sunday 11 August 19:15 - 20:15

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Booker-longlisted author of Night Boat to Tangier Kevin Barry returns to the Festival with The Heart in Winter: a savagely funny, tragi-romantic tale set in the Wild West about young lovers on the run. The Irish writer talks about the novel that was 25…
 

Jeremy Lee: Simply Delicious

Monday 12 August 10:30 - 11:30

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Cooking, by renowned chef Jeremy Lee, is more than just a recipe book. It’s a love song to simple ingredients, peppered with stories from the dinners of his Dundonian childhood to the busy kitchen of his iconic Soho restaurant, Quo Vadis. Hear him in a…
 

Madhumita Murgia & Georgina Voss: The Systems Which Govern Us

Monday 12 August 12:15 - 13:15

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Two fascinating technology writers reveal the disorientating extent to which we are already governed by AI and complex systems. Hear Financial Times AI editor Madhumita Murgia (author of Code Dependent) and artist and academic Georgina Voss (author of…
 

The Front List: James O'Brien

Monday 12 August 13:30 - 14:30

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With the General Election looming (or at least the possibility of its announcement), the political news cycle is in overdrive. James O’Brien, one of Britain’s leading broadcasters, is among the fiercest critics of contemporary Britain's management by our…