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Edinburgh Fringe: Katie Sayer On Love’s A Beach
Katie Sayer is a 25-year-old writer and producer. Her writing for BBC television received a BAFTA nomination, and her multiple award – winning writing for multiple BBC Radio 4 programmes earned her a spot on the 2023 Radio Academy 30 Under 30. She recently wrote and produced the 10-part documentary series ‘Marco Pantani: Death of…
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Meet The Team Behind Come Dine With Me: The Musical
Writer and lyricist Sam Norman is an award-winning rhymester who bounces between the UK and US. He is a Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriter, an American Opera Initiative Fellow, a Lincoln Center Broadway Future Songbook writer, and a two – time finalist for the Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize. A proud member of the…
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Edinburgh Fringe: Beth Morton Talks Catafalque
Beth Morton is a freelance director and theatre maker, and Mull Theatre Associate Director. Her collaborative artistic process as a theatre maker often sees her developing original work in partnership with writers and other creatives and she strives to cre ate distinct worlds within which characters, ideas and stories can exist. Her directing work has…
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Edinburgh Fringe: Noel Byrne Talks Gulliver’s Travels & Casting The Runes
Noel Byrne is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Box Tale Soup and is currently a performer for the company. Outside of this, he’s enjoyed an extremely varied professional career including everything from Shakespeare on stage to voice and motion capture for video games, as well as television work for the BBC’s Doctor Who, The…
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Edinburgh Fringe: Rebecca Wilson On Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants
With her notorious gang-leader brother heading off to WW1, Alice Diamond seizes her chance to take his place and stamp her mark on the streets of London. Together with her all-female crime syndicate, Alice rules the city as queen of the criminal underworld. But when the war ends – and the men return home –…
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Edinburgh Fringe 2024: Jessica Regan Talks 16 Postcodes
In her debut storytelling show, Jessica Regan (BBC, Channel 4, Guilty Feminist) shares lessons lived and learned from a life in no particular order. Each show is drawn from true tales of love and landlords, of mice and men and more, told with help from the audience who will play their part in her odyssey as she moves…
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Edinburgh Fringe: Bi-Curious George Talks Queer Planet
London’s most loveable nature boy Bi-Curious George is the winner of Not Another Drag Competition 2022, as well as a 2021 graduate of the Soho Theatre Drag and Cabaret lab. Queer Planet has been performed previously at Southbank Centre, Kew Gardens and Soho Theatre. Bi-Curious George joins us on Close-Up Culture to talk about the…
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Close-Up: An Interview With Netflix TV Personality Xanthi Perdikomatis
Netflix TV personality Xanthi Perdikomatis has starred on hugely popular shows such as The Circle and Perfect Match. Xanthi joins us on Close-Up Culture to talk about her reality TV experiences, her favourite memories from The Circle and Perfect Match, her exciting plans for the future, and much more. IG: @xanthijoanna Hi Xanthi, welcome to Close-Up Culture. What was…
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Close-Up: An Interview With Boxing Sensation Francesca Hennessy
At just 19, Francesca Hennessy has swiftly become a formidable name in boxing. With titles such as National Champion, Golden Girls Champion, and Women’s Winter Box Cup Champion, her meteoric rise has captured significant attention. Fran joins us on Close-Up Culture to talk about her path into boxing, the proudest moment of her career so far,…
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Composer Stuart Wood On The Hit Musical Frank’s Closet
Take seven Divas, a closet full of frocks, a riotous blush of Gaiety Girls, and the slightly bemused – though always dashing – Frank, teetering on the verge of matrimony. Sprinkle in a collection of glorious, original songs that straddle the great British, Broadway (and Swedish) songbooks, and you have Frank’s Closet, an all-singing, all-dancing ode…
