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    Jeffrey Boakye: Music is Power, Music is Life

    Age 12+

    Available from 10:00 on Saturday 14 August

    Jeffrey Boakye: Music is Power, Music is Life
    This one is for the music lovers! Tune in to hear writer, teacher and music enthusiast, Jeffrey Boakye talk about his exceptional new book Musical Truth: A Musical History of Modern Black Britain in 28 Songs. In this audio-only event you get to find out...
     

    Jenny Erpenbeck: Freedom Came at a Price

    Saturday 14 August 10:15 - 11:15

    Jenny Erpenbeck: Freedom Came at a Price
    How does it feel to have been born and raised in East Germany and then, at the end of childhood, thrown into a radically new way of living when the Berlin Wall came down? Jenny Erpenbeck knows the answer. Anyone who has had the pleasure of reading...
     

    Zoë Wicomb: Questioning South Africa’s Colonial Story

    Saturday 14 August 11:30 - 12:30

    Zoë Wicomb: Questioning South Africa’s Colonial Story
    Every year since 2013, the Windham-Campbell prize has awarded eight writers the impressive sum of $165,000 to support their writing. Just two writers from Scotland have won this prestigious prize: Aminatta Forna and Zoë Wicomb. For many...
     

    Tom Devine with Allan Little: Rewriting Scotland’s History

    Sunday 15 August 16:00 - 17:00

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    Tom Devine with Allan Little: Rewriting Scotland’s History
    During the 20th century, Scotland commonly depicted its own history through the lens of a kind of colourful, tragicomic victimhood. This amounted to a tartan-clad story set against a Highland backdrop and a sense of national self-doubt that has...
     

    Nick Bryant with Allan Little: The History of Donald Trump

    Sunday 15 August 19:00 - 20:00

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    Nick Bryant with Allan Little: The History of Donald Trump
    Any journalist reporting from the USA over the past 50 years was in for a fascinating experience, but to have been there during the Trump era was something else entirely. As one of the BBC’s senior TV reporters in the States, Nick Bryant witnessed a...
     

    Helena Attlee with Lev Atlas & Greg Lawson: Fiddler on the Don

    Monday 16 August 11:30 - 12:30

    Helena Attlee with Lev Atlas & Greg Lawson: Fiddler on the Don
    Objects passed down the generations can provide a rich source of stories. Travel writer Helen Attlee hit on a particularly interesting example of this when, at a folk concert in Wales, she was struck by the gorgeous tone of a violin being played by...
     

    Wayétu Moore & Nadia Owusu: On Belonging

    Monday 16 August 16:00 - 17:00

    Wayétu Moore & Nadia Owusu: On Belonging
    Meet two women who combine breathtaking life stories with an uncommon ability to write about them. Wayétu Moore joined us last year with her fictional reimagining of Liberia’s history, She Would Be King. Now she returns to tell her true life story...

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