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Tuesday 19 August events <strong>for</strong> adults continued<br />
Writing <strong>for</strong> the Radio<br />
THE WRITING BUSINESS<br />
6.45pm I Peppers Theatre I £6.00 £4.00<br />
Turning a novel into a radio play poses some interesting challenges.<br />
Novelist and playwright Chris Dolan and BBC Radio Drama Producer<br />
Bruce Young explore the ups and downs of dramatisation. Chaired by<br />
writer-producer David Ian Neville.<br />
Human Beings and Technology<br />
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY<br />
7.00pm – 8.15pm I Highland Park Spiegeltent I £9.00 £7.00<br />
How do we adapt our society to the relentless pace of technology As we<br />
become more literate, interactive and mobile with our use of technology,<br />
how is our society and culture changing How can we maximise its potential<br />
while avoiding its perils Join the leading cultural commentor Charles<br />
Leadbeater and others as they discuss the effect of technology on the<br />
individual and society. Chaired by Brian Baglow of the Edinburgh Interactive<br />
Festival and creator of the first Grand Theft Auto.<br />
Jeff Randall<br />
& Mary Turner Thomson<br />
THE SCRA EVENT<br />
7.00pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Meet two Edinburgh writers who secured publication at the 2006 Book Festival.<br />
Love Hurts by Jeff Randall is the powerful story of a tormented childhood,<br />
attempted suicide, and of a man coming to terms with his past. Mary Turner<br />
Thomson’s The Bigamist is an astonishing account of her marriage to a<br />
sociopath. Searing personal accounts. Chaired by Jackie McGlone.<br />
SCRA (Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration) is the national body that works with<br />
partners to provide a system of child protection and youth justice throughout Scotland.<br />
Carlos Alba, Billy Cowie<br />
& Chris Hannan<br />
FIRST FICTION<br />
7.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £6.00 £4.00<br />
A trio of debut fiction by writers highly accomplished in their own field.<br />
Composer Billy Cowie explores a violinist who discovers his unborn twin still<br />
within him in Passenger; playwright Chris Hannan writes about nineteenth<br />
century saloon girls in Missy; in journalist Carlos Alba’s Kane’s Ladder a young<br />
boy rails against his seemingly normal middle-class family.<br />
Alexander McCall Smith<br />
THE CORNELIAN<br />
ASSET MANAGERS EVENT<br />
8.00pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
masterclass<br />
society<br />
biography<br />
fiction<br />
fiction<br />
An hour of utter delight in the company of the global phenomenon and most<br />
beloved author. Whether writing about Botswana or his native Edinburgh,<br />
Alexander McCall Smith’s novels celebrate compassion, moral certainty<br />
and warmth. Don’t miss this final chance to hear him this festival.<br />
Popular science<br />
Dave McKean<br />
ILLUSTRATION AND DESIGN<br />
8.00pm I RBS Corner Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, film-maker<br />
and musician, Dave McKean is a true polymath. Best-known <strong>for</strong> his<br />
graphic novel illustration, he’s worked on Neil Gaiman’s Black Orchid<br />
and The Sandman, D C Comic’s Hellblazer and his own ambitious project,<br />
Cages, a graphic novel exploring artists and creativity which has been<br />
six years in the making. McKean’s debut feature film Mirrormask came<br />
out in 2005 and he has also worked as conceptual artist on the Harry<br />
Potter films. Come and meet this truly talented artist. Perfect <strong>for</strong> teens<br />
as well as adults.<br />
Patrick McGrath & Colm Tóibín<br />
FINE FICTION<br />
8.30pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
A dream team of two of the most powerful and beguiling artists of fiction<br />
at work today. Unsettling and sensuous, Patrick McGrath’s fiction often<br />
centres on damaged people (as in Spider, made into a David Cronenberg<br />
movie). His new novel Trauma explores a lonely and grieving psychiatrist.<br />
Colm Tóibín is a master at work, as proved by his recent stories Mothers<br />
and Sons.<br />
Martin Buckley<br />
& Robin Hanbury-Tenison<br />
TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE<br />
8.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Great journeys of the past and present. Robin Hanbury-Tenison, one of the<br />
greatest explorers of his generation, looks at epic travellers from Marco Polo<br />
and Alexander the Great to Arctic adventurers. Martin Buckley crosses India<br />
and Sri Lanka as he retraces the mighty voyage at the heart of the Ramayana,<br />
an astonishing and revealing quest.<br />
Spiegelbar<br />
MUSIC<br />
From 9.00pm I Highland Park Spiegeltent I Free – open to all<br />
Come and enjoy a relaxing evening with live music in our atmospheric<br />
travelling ballroom. A great place to have a drink and end your festival day.<br />
The band line-up is available from the In<strong>for</strong>mation Desk in the Entrance Tent.<br />
Sponsored by Highland Park<br />
It is the UN’s Year of Planet Earth; fascination with our planet,<br />
the cosmos in which it nestles and the many unfolding mysteries<br />
of science grows apace. Our series this year encompasses<br />
science writing which has trans<strong>for</strong>med our thinking as well as<br />
examinations of artificial intelligence – can robots have feelings<br />
– and the vexed notions of intelligent design.<br />
BSL<br />
masterclass<br />
fiction<br />
travel<br />
Book now at www.edbookfest.co.uk or 0845 373 5888 <strong>See</strong> <strong>page</strong> <strong>74</strong> / <strong>75</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>booking</strong> <strong>details</strong><br />
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EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 9 – 25 August 2008<br />
LATECOMERS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED AFTER THE START OF EVENTS & NO REFUNDS WILL BE GIVEN<br />
EVENTS ARE 1 HOUR LONG UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED & TAKE PLACE IN CHARLOTTE SQUARE GARDENS
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