FESTIVAL INDEX Need help navigating your way around our Festival coverage? We’ve made a neat list of all the Festival shows covered in this issue right here. We’ll leave you to add your own highlighter pen notes or Biro scribbles around it, as you wish.
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8 44 83 44 30 51 51, 52 40 16 88 22 76 71 44 76 76 22 65, 67 Aditi Mangaldas Africa Calling After the Rainfall The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs Alain de Botton Alex Salmond Alfie Brown Alan Francis Ali Smith Alistair Barrie Alys Fowler Amanda Harlech The Amazing Bubble Show Andrew Maxwell Anjali Joseph Anne Enright Anne Reid Antony Beevor Aonghas MacNeacail An Appointment with the Wicker Man Armageddapocalypse Art & Language Asher Treleaven Axel Scheffler Bad Taste Cru Ballet Preljocaj Beard Beats Bebaroque Beer & Food Festival Belt Up’s A Little Princess Best in the World The Beta Males Blake’s Doors Bound Bowmore Whisky Tasting Boy in a Dress The Boy with the Cuckoo Clock Heart The Boy With Tape on his Face Bruce Hammers’ 44 Bananapocalypse 65 Bullet Catch 44 Caimh McDonnell Callum Innes 79 Captain Ko and the Planet of Rice 76 31 Cardinal Burns 34 Cariad Lloyd 44 Carl Donnelly 78, 82 Carolee Schneemann 85 Caspa Casual Violence 44 44 Catie Wilkins 30 Celebrating Kafka 33 Celia Pacquola 8 Checkpoint Charlie 28 Chibundu Onuzo 26 Chika Unigwe Chris Corcoran and Elis James 44 60 Chris Difford & Norman Lovett 30 Chris Mullin 44 The Chris and Paul Show 58 Churches 85 Circa Colin Mars 44 53 Collision 58 Com Truise Craig Taylor 30 The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean Dalmore & Jura Whisky Tasting Daniel Simonsen Danny Wallace David et Jonathas David Trent David Vann DeAnne Smith Death Boogie Denis Krasnov Denise Mina
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22 76 51 46 46 55 88 37 46 58, 59 10 46 65 22 85 12 30 12 30 46 46 85 Denise Scott Des Bishop Desperately Seeking the Exit Discover Ben Target Dr Brown Doctor Who Dr Brown Brown Brown Brown Brow and his Singing Tiger 54 Dan Wright 44 East of the Sun, West of the Moon 54 46 Ed Eales-White Eddie Pepitone 31 Edinburgh Markets – Grassmarket 22 Edinburgh Markets – St Mary’s 22 Edinburgh World Writer’s Conference Educating Rita Educating Ronnie Elizabeth Reeder The Elves and the Shoemaker Etgar Keret Ewan Morrison Executive Stress/ Corporate Retreat Extra Width Felicity Ward Festival Detours Festival of Politics Festival of Scottish Beer & Food with Tom Bruce-Gardyne Flâneurs Flash Mob Ford & Akram Fred MacAulay Freedom Family Circus Fresh Cuts The Funeral of Conor O’Toole Funk Rocket 5000 Gagaku Gareth Richards Gearoid Farrelly Gillver’s Travels Glenfarclas Whisky Tasting The Go-Go Gob Shop Graham Rawle Gráinne Maguire Grant Morrison Graters The Great Puppet Horn Grown Ups Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize Event The Half Hanks and Conran Hannah Gadsby Hari Kunzru Hearts on Fire Helen Arney Hell’s Bells Hey, Piano, Bar Lady! Hi-Kick Hippy Hippy Shake Holly Burn Horrible Histories Horse & Louis I Am, I Am The I Hate Children Children’s Show I Shall be Remembered – The Story of Madame 76 de Pompadour 30 Iain Banks 31 Idiots of Amts Ian Hamilton Finlay 78 The Imaginary Radio Programme 46 30 Ian McEwan 76 Inheritance Blues 22 Introduction to Whisky 76 Irreconcilable Differences 25, 29 Irvine Welsh Ian Shaw 38 46 Iszi Lawrence 65, 66 It’s So Nice 38 Jack Jerome 30 James Kelman 26 Janne Teller Jarred Christmas 46 78 Jean-Pierre Muller 30 Jeanette Winterson Jessie Cave 35
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Jigsy Jim Jefferies Jo Caulfield Joanna Nadin John Bellany John Jeremiah Sullivan Jonny & The Baptists Joseph Stiglitz Josh Lacey Josie Long Joyce Carol Oates Juliet Meyers Kapka Kassabova Kate Summerscale Kevin Harman Kim Newman Kirsty Gunn Knee Deep Kristine Levine Lach Lapin Wants Ice Cream Lari Don Leads & Stern Lewis Barlow Liam Mullone Lingua Frank The List A Little Perspective with Imaan Liz Lochhead Louise Rennison The Machine Machines for Living Mae Day Magnus Betner The Makropulos Case Malones Beer Festival Marek Larwood Margo Lanagan Mark Haddon Mark Little Mark Nelson Mark Restuccia Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro! Matthew Crosby Maurice’s Jubilee Melanie Challenger Melvin Burgess Miaoux Miaoux Michael Downey Michael Gerard Bauer Michael Morpurgo Michael Redmond Midnight at the Boar’s Head Misha Glenny Morning Mr Braithwaite Has a New Boy Mr Snot Bottom’s Stinky Silly Show Mumbo Jumbo Munfred Bernstein’s Cabinet of Wonder My Robot Heart Naz Osmanoglu Nggrfg Night of the Big Wind Nikita Lalwani Nile Rodgers Nish Kumar And No More Shall We Part Nola Nothing is Really Difficult NVA’s Speed of Light Oliver Dean Oliver Reed: Wild Thing Owen O’Neill Oyster Eyes Pam Hogg Panning for Gold Pappy’s Pat Barker Patrick Ness People Like Us Peter May Peter Millar Peter Straker’s Brel Philip Ardagh Picasso and Modern British Art The Pin Point to C Pretending Things are a Cock 78 32 85 48
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54 25 34 48 48 34 48 31 44, 48 31 42 88 58, 60 54 71 30 30 48 48 9, 19 33 22 The Price of Everything The Prize Rachel Stubbings The Rape of Lucrece Remember Remember (remor) Rethinking Islam The Return of the Lumberjacks Rhys Darby Rhythmic Circus Roderick Buchanan Rodge Glass Ruchir Sharma Russell Kane Ruth Rendell Sam Bourne Santigold School of Comedy The Scientist in Fiction The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets Seamus Heaney Sean Hughes Sexytime! Seymour Mace Shappi Khorsandi Sheeps Shit-Faced Shakespeare The Silky Pair Simon Amstell Simon Munnery Sissel Tolaas Sleigh Bells The Snail and the Whale The Static Stef Penney Steve Benbow Steve Gribben Steve Shanyski Steve Wozniak Stewart Lee Stockbridge Market The Story of the BBC in Scotland Stuart Goldsmith Sulle Labbra Tue Dolcissime (On Your Honey Lips) Susan Calman Susan Philipsz Suzi Ruffell Teach Me Teddy Jamieson Temper Temper Terry Alderton Tea with the Old Queen Thin Ice Things We Did Before Reality Thread The Three Englishmen Through the Looking Screen Tiddler and Other 55 Terrific Tales 48 Tiffany Stevenson Tim Rollins and K.O.S 79 Tom Cottle’s These Twisted Folk 48 48 Tom Stade 48 Tony Law Totally Tom 48 35 The Trap: Bad Musical Treasure Island 57 10, 65 The Trench 31, 37 Trevor Noah 48 Truth 69 Turn of the Screw 2008: Macbeth 74 52 Up & Over It 78 Van Gogh to Kandinsky 58 The Vocal Orchestra 79 We Are All UFO-Nauts 85 We Own Whisky & Cheese Tasting 22 22 Whisky & Chocolate 48 Wil Hodgson 32 WitTank 74 Wojtek the Bear 85 Xplicit Yiyun Li 30 You Obviously Know What I’m Talking About Yrsa Sigurdardottir
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