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Adele Hampton: Speak your own melanin into a mirror
The poet explores her mixed-race roots at the BBC Poetry Slam at the Edinburgh Festivals.
  1. Adele Hampton: Speak your own melanin into a mirror
    02:33
    Adele Hampton: Speak your own melanin into a mirror
  2. Reading
    04:11
    Reading
  3. Childhood
    05:49
    Childhood
  4. Writing Books for her Daughter
    04:53
    Writing Books for her Daughter
  5. Scarlet Umbrella
    04:17
    Scarlet Umbrella
  6. The Characters
    04:10
    The Characters
  7. Playing Instruments
    03:50
    Playing Instruments
  8. Q&A
    03:47
    Q&A
  9. A disastrous opening night
    04:16
    A disastrous opening night
  10. B. Dolan - Still Electric
    02:24
    B. Dolan - Still Electric
  11. Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America
    01:19
    Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America
  12. From War of the Worlds to Citizen Kane
    01:45
    From War of the Worlds to Citizen Kane
  13. Tom Wrigglesworth's Fringe picks
    01:35
    Tom Wrigglesworth's Fringe picks
  14. Glasgow Girls: It's No a Wean's Choice
    04:26
    Glasgow Girls: It's No a Wean's Choice
  15. Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia
    03:16
    Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia
  16. Erica Jong on sex and ageing
    04:08
    Erica Jong on sex and ageing
  17. Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents
    01:47
    Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents
  18. Alan Cumming on flying to America - for the first time - with Ruby Wax
    02:34
    Alan Cumming on flying to America - for the first time - with Ruby Wax
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