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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. Pushing onto trains
    00:38
    Pushing onto trains
  10. "Spirit of the Fringe"
    00:48
    "Spirit of the Fringe"
  11. Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America
    01:19
    Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America
  12. Alan Cumming on a meeting with Oprah
    01:19
    Alan Cumming on a meeting with Oprah
  13. Glasgow Girls: It's No a Wean's Choice
    04:26
    Glasgow Girls: It's No a Wean's Choice
  14. We hope you're sitting down
    00:43
    We hope you're sitting down
  15. Michelle Fisher: Picture the vast unknown
    02:59
    Michelle Fisher: Picture the vast unknown
  16. "Everyone has a lot of lanyards on"
    00:39
    "Everyone has a lot of lanyards on"
  17. From War of the Worlds to Citizen Kane
    01:45
    From War of the Worlds to Citizen Kane
  18. Marin Alsop on her speech at the Last Night of the Proms
    03:10
    Marin Alsop on her speech at the Last Night of the Proms
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