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Val McDermid's advice to Nicola Sturgeon and aspiring writers: 'Just do it'
McDermid also tells would-be novelists to forget about writing the perfect first chapter.
  1. Val McDermid's advice to Nicola Sturgeon and aspiring writers: 'Just do it'
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    Val McDermid's advice to Nicola Sturgeon and aspiring writers: 'Just do it'
  2. Michael Frayn on the idiosyncratic reactions of theatre audiences
    03:37
    Michael Frayn on the idiosyncratic reactions of theatre audiences
  3. Allan Little and Sheena MacDonald read a passage by Michael Frayn
    02:54
    Allan Little and Sheena MacDonald read a passage by Michael Frayn
  4. Bernat Klein and Kwang Young Chun at Dovecot Gallery
    02:25
    Bernat Klein and Kwang Young Chun at Dovecot Gallery
  5. Front Row at the Edinburgh Festival
    27:30
    Front Row at the Edinburgh Festival
  6. Dean Owens sings Delia's Gone
    02:48
    Dean Owens sings Delia's Gone
  7. Fred MacAulay's five festival picks
    01:31
    Fred MacAulay's five festival picks
  8. George the Poet at Edinburgh International Book Festival
    48:19
    George the Poet at Edinburgh International Book Festival
  9. Darren Walsh at BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals
    02:16
    Darren Walsh at BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals
  10. Simon McBurney
    53:48
    Simon McBurney
  11. Howard Jacobson: I'd rather call myself the Jewish Jane Austen
    02:19
    Howard Jacobson: I'd rather call myself the Jewish Jane Austen
  12. Heather Holliday swallows swords... and a lightsaber
    02:28
    Heather Holliday swallows swords... and a lightsaber
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