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Edinburgh Festival Blogs videos

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  Robert's festival blog - Karen Dunbar interview

  As one of the major acts at this year's Edinburgh Festival, Karen Dunbar is delighted to promote The Drunk Woman Looks at the Thistle. It's an emotional, comedic monologue exploring Scotland's national ident...

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  Introducing Charles Leadbeater at the Book Festival

  Robert Dawson Scott introduces author Charles Leadbeater, whose book, We Think, was discussed as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Play Video

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  Robert's festival blog - Fringe First Awards: Mother...

  Writer/ director Steve Gilroy and actress Helen Embleton explain Motherland by Newcastle's Live Theatre at the Underbelly. An award winning verbatim drama about the women linked to military personnel in Iraq...

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  Robert collects a record number of fringe leaflets

  Running the gauntlet of keen young people handing out leaflets or flyers as they try to sell their show is an occupational hazard at the festival. But many of them turn out to be top salesmen and women. And ...

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  Robert goes to Fringe Sunday

  Fringe Sunday is the day that the Edinburgh Festival fringe opens itself up to Edinburgh at large, with loads of free shows in large tents on the Meadows. But this year, the rain came.....

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  The TEAM discuss their award-winning show Architecting

  Rachel Chavkin and Jessica Almasy of New York theatre group the TEAM discuss their Fringe First winning production of Architecting. Drawing on Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, a real lament from...

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  Robert gets the Gentle Touch from Jill Gascoine

  The first actor to portray a senior police woman on TV, in the Gentle Touch and CATS Eyes, Jill Gascoigne returns to the Edinburgh Fringe in Sister Cities, 50 years after her debut.

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  Robert's blog at the Fringe Firsts - August 8, 2008

  The Fringe First awards are the oldest and most respected on the Fringe. The plays Deepcut, Architecting, The New Electric Ballroom, Stefan Golaszewski Speaks About a Girl He Once Loved and The Tailor of Inv...

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  Copstick's Edinburgh Festival blog - August 6, 2008

  101 uses for a dead programme. Copstick has issues with the Edinburgh comedy festival brochure. Anyone got any better ideas for what to do with it?

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  Copstick meets the Art Club - August 5, 2008

  The Art Club are from Australia. They dance. On the radio. Kylie Minogue is involved. Go figure.

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