2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest) Podcast
1) Jess Phillips (2017 Event)
Telling the Truth Journalist Julie Burchill calls her 'a breath of fresh air, with a dirty laugh'. In Everywoman, Labour politician Jess Phillips shouts long and loudly about the things she cares mos...Show More
2) Sebastian Barry (2017 Event)
Love Amid the Carnage of War Anyone who has heard Sebastian Barry read from his work knows he’s one of the best in the business. Anyone who has read Days Without End, his impossibly tender novel set i...Show More
3) Outriders: Harry Giles & Katherena Vermette (2017 Event)
Canada: Montreal to Hudson Bay As part of our project to explore the Americas, poet Harry Giles travelled across Canada with Métis writer Katherena Vermette. Starting in Montreal amid the buzzy Quebe...Show More
4) Harriet Harman (2017 Event)
GENDER POLITICS When Harriet Harman was elected in 1982, she notes in her memoir A Woman’s Work, the House of Commons was 97% male. Since then, she has led the way on all-women shortlists, introduced...Show More
5) Jemima Foxtrot, Iona Lee, Sabrina Mahfouz & Sophia Walker (2017 Event)
PHENOMENAL WOMEN SPEAK OUT While comedy still struggles with gender equality, the spoken word scene is well used to its biggest, most exciting exports being female. Following in the footsteps of Kate...Show More
6) Limmy (2017 Event)
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS OF THE COMEDIC KIND The short, sharp and funny shock has been Brian Limond aka Limmy’s forte ever since breaking through with his World of Glasgow web series in 2006. After a Scottis...Show More
7) Harry Baker (2017 Event)
PERFORMING POETRY WITH CHARM Meet the man who is a World Poetry Slam Champion turned full-time poet via a maths degree. Following on from his debut collection, The Sunshine Kid, Harry Baker brings a ...Show More
8) Robert Webb (2017 Event)
UNDERSTANDING THE MALE OF THE SPECIES What is it to be male? Peep Show actor Robert Webb reckons it involves a heap of unnecessary pressure applied from a very early age. With his call-to-arms memoir...Show More
9) Conor Gearty & Douglas Murray (2017 Event)
EUROPE: ACTS AND COUNTERACTS In The Strange Death of Europe, Douglas Murray travels from places where migrants land to places where they end up, talking to people who welcome them and others who don'...Show More
10) Laird Hunt & Colson Whitehead (2017 Event)
A TOUR OF AMERICA RACE IN AMERICA Two of the finest writers working in America today take a tour around the dark history of their country. Paul Auster called Laird Hunt's last novel Neverhome 'magnif...Show More