Homepage

Accessibility links

  • Skip to content
  • Accessibility Help
BBC Account
Notifications
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Weather
  • iPlayer
  • Sounds
  • Bitesize
  • CBeebies
  • CBBC
  • Food
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Health
  • Culture
  • Arts
  • Travel
  • Earth
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Live
More menu
Search BBC
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Weather
  • iPlayer
  • Sounds
  • Bitesize
  • CBeebies
  • CBBC
  • Food
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Health
  • Culture
  • Arts
  • Travel
  • Earth
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Live
Close menu
BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals
  • Home
  • BBC Sounds
  • BBC Arts
  • BBC Scotland

Audio & Video

You must enable JavaScript to play content
Richard Coles: 'It was our ambition to bring down Margaret Thatcher with pop music'
View More From Richard Coles
From arriving in London and meeting Jimmy Somerville, to Bronski Beat and Smalltown Boy.
  1. Richard Coles: 'It was our ambition to bring down Margaret Thatcher with pop music'
    02:23
    Richard Coles: 'It was our ambition to bring down Margaret Thatcher with pop music'
    View More From Richard Coles
  2. Jazz Line-Up: Alison Affleck sings Billie Holiday
    11:10
    Jazz Line-Up: Alison Affleck sings Billie Holiday
  3. Maggie O’Farrell on the books that inspired her childhood
    02:05
    Maggie O’Farrell on the books that inspired her childhood
  4. Sylvie Guillem
    56:16
    Sylvie Guillem
  5. Jazz Line-Up: Corrina Hewat and Dave Milligan
    10:50
    Jazz Line-Up: Corrina Hewat and Dave Milligan
  6. Kirsty Logan finds inspiration in the North East coast of Scotland
    04:22
    Kirsty Logan finds inspiration in the North East coast of Scotland
  7. Fred MacAulay's five festival picks
    01:31
    Fred MacAulay's five festival picks
  8. Jazz Line-Up: Closing set from the Darius Brubeck Quartet
    15:40
    Jazz Line-Up: Closing set from the Darius Brubeck Quartet
  9. Basketball Man on Anneka Rice's Edinburgh
    00:56
    Basketball Man on Anneka Rice's Edinburgh
  10. Trail: BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals 2015
    00:30
    Trail: BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals 2015
  11. Harriet Kemsley, BBC Presents the Next Big Thing
    01:13
    Harriet Kemsley, BBC Presents the Next Big Thing
  12. Now playing
    Up next

Act Videos

  • AC Grayling
  • Alan Johnson
  • Anneka Rice's Edinburgh
  • Ed Byrne & Jason Byrne In Conversation
  • Edinburgh 2015
  • George the Poet
  • Howard Jacobson
  • Inside the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
  • Jesse Jackson
  • Juliette Binoche
  • Limmy
  • Liz Lochhead
  • Michael Frayn
  • Poetry Slam Grand Final
  • Radio 2 Book Club with Simon Mayo
  • Robert Lepage
  • Rory Bremner and Friends
  • Simon McBurney
  • Sylvie Guillem
  • The Female Gaze
  • The Janice Forsyth Show
  • Val McDermid & Nicola Sturgeon
  • Cymraeg
  • Gàidhlig
  • Gaeilge

Explore the BBC

  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Weather
  • iPlayer
  • Sounds
  • Bitesize
  • CBeebies
  • CBBC
  • Food
  • Home
  • News
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Health
  • Culture
  • Arts
  • Travel
  • Earth
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Live
  • Terms of Use
  • About the BBC
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies
  • Cookies
  • Accessibility Help
  • Parental Guidance
  • Contact the BBC
  • Make an editorial complaint
  • BBC emails for you
  • Advertise with us
Copyright © 2026 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.

You might also like:

news | sport | weather | worklife | travel | future | culture | world | business | technology