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Media Gallery

Our free media gallery gives you the opportunity to listen to, or view, a selection of Edinburgh International Book Festival events and related material and gives a good flavour of our August programme. Material can be streamed or downloaded. You’ll find lively podcasts with author chats and interesting snippets, unedited hour-long author events in our audio archive (including transcriptions of some events) and selected highlights in our video archive.

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To find material on specific authors or subjects enter a name or keyword into the site search field (top right of the website) - for example: Atwood, Salman, Louise Rennison etc or food, travel, crime, politics, environment, education, Africa, children, schools, poetry etc.

Photo Gallery

  • In the Bookshop
  • Choosing titles
  • One of our brilliant BSL interpreters
  • After the Pirate event
  • Joss Ackland & Ruth Wishart
  • Frazer Fifield and Graham Stephen

Audio

Each year we choose a selection of events which we think give a good overall flavour of the Book Festival's August programme and record them for our onlie audio archive. From poetry to crime writing, fantasy fiction to history, our audio archive holds a great range of recordings of the full hour-long live events as they happened.

Cressida Cowell

Cressida Cowell (2010 children's event)

A chance to hear the author of the book-turned-into-big-screen-hit How to Train your Dragon in her fantastic and wildly popular 2010 kids' event....

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney (2010 event)

We are delighted to offer you a chance to listen to celebrated Irish poet Seamus Heaney in his fantastic and extremely popular event with us in 2010....

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Video Gallery

John Pilger

Radical, passionate and often controversial, John Pilger is one of the most important free spirits in worldwide journalism and filmmaking. In these...

Philip Gourevitch

Philip Gourevitch

The esteemed editor of The Paris Review, Philip Gourevitch discusses the magazine's position as one of the great iconic literary publications....

John Burnside

Lights Off The Quay - pt3 (John Burnside)

We commissioned and published new stories and poems from four of the finest Scottish writers: A L Kennedy, Janice Galloway, John Burnside and Don...