Front Row - Live from The Edinburgh Festival, including film-maker Isaac Julien
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This year's Edinburgh Festival is a smaller affair than normal but it's packed full of delicious cultural goodness. We speak with film director Isaac Julien about Lessons of The Hour- a 10-screen film about the former slave and emancipationist Frederick Douglass who visited Edinburgh many times.
Just These Please is a four-piece comedy group who have had more than 6m views on YouTube for their sketches and whose Edinburgh Fringe show has sold out.
Poet and playwright Hannah Lavery has many works at the festival - Lament for Sheku Bayoh is a play about a young black Scottish man who died in police custody in 2015. She has also co-written Eavesdropping, a guided audio walk around Edinburgh.
Siobhan Miller won her first singing prize at the age of 13 and is the only three-times winner of Scots Singer of the Year. She's playing a gig at the festival with her band and has a new album All Is Not Forgotten, and she plays live for us at The BBC site in Infirmary Street, Edinburgh.
Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Oliver Jones
Published on Wednesday, 18th August 2021.
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