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Val McDermid's advice to Nicola Sturgeon and aspiring writers: 'Just do it'
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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. Val McDermid on the Scottish referendum: 'We wanted to call our house swithering heights'
    02:45
    Val McDermid on the Scottish referendum: 'We wanted to call our house swithering heights'
  3. George the Poet at Edinburgh International Book Festival
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    George the Poet at Edinburgh International Book Festival
  4. Jazz Line-Up: Darius Brubeck Quartet
    11:25
    Jazz Line-Up: Darius Brubeck Quartet
  5. Jazz Line-Up: The Darius Brubeck Quartet perform Take Five
    05:33
    Jazz Line-Up: The Darius Brubeck Quartet perform Take Five
  6. Liz Lochhead: Credo for working in Scottish theatre
    04:19
    Liz Lochhead: Credo for working in Scottish theatre
  7. Inside the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: A Bollywood Love Story
    03:04
    Inside the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: A Bollywood Love Story
  8. Poetry Slam Grand Final: Scott Tyrrell
    03:08
    Poetry Slam Grand Final: Scott Tyrrell
  9. Jesse Jackson on the Black Lives Matter movement
    02:48
    Jesse Jackson on the Black Lives Matter movement
  10. Front Row at the Edinburgh Festival
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    Front Row at the Edinburgh Festival
  11. Simon McBurney on the joy of performing
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    Simon McBurney on the joy of performing
  12. Miren de Miguel sings Morro Ma Prima In Grazia
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    Miren de Miguel sings Morro Ma Prima In Grazia
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