Front Row: Archive 2012 - Edinburgh Festival, David Hayman, Virginia Ironside

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With Mark Lawson.

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has just reached the half-way mark, and this evening Front Row comes from the world's largest arts festival. Recorded in front of a live audience in the big blue tent, Mark Lawson will be providing at taste of this year's Fringe.

Guests include the Scottish actor David Hayman, whose show Six and a Tanner is a solo performance of one man railing against his dead father; Australian beatboxer Tom Thum demonstrates his extraordinary vocal talents; the writer of a new play based on the story of Anders Breivik who killed 77 people in Norway last summer.discusses the background to his play The Economist.

Virginia Ironside and Tiffany Stevenson have one subject in common for their shows - the ageing process - and they'll be reflecting on that from the perspective of different generations, and comic Paul Chowdhry from Channel 4's Stand Up for the Week discusses his new show What's Happening White People in which considers the state of modern Britain

Producer Jerome Weatherald.

Published on Thursday, 16th August 2012.

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