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Audible Presents returns to the Edinburgh Fringe to bring you more hilarious stand-up from the world's best comedy festival.

International stars of the comedy world, established legends of the British stand-up scene and exciting new voices perform exclusively for your laugh-out-loud pleasure.

Audible Live returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 to bring you more hilarious stand-up from the world's best comedy festival.

'Penguin's fine pandemic audio festival delivers hours of laughs from comedy's most creative talents.' - The Observer 'An absolutely cracking lineup' - The Guardian 'A marvellous wheeze, almost like attending a private stand-up gig' - The I Brought to you by Penguin. The show has been called off...

For three weeks every August, the Fringe Festival practically takes over Edinburgh, Scotland. The Fringe brings together thousands of artists in thousands of shows, selling millions of tickets. It also brings the promise of career-defining experience and exposure but at great risk to the artists putting on the shows. Fringe Benefits Edinburgh is a unique behind-the-scenes look at the Fringe Festival through the experiences of first-time and seasoned performers, producers, venue directors, political leaders, organisers, and local residents. This is a story about dreams, ambitions, and reality ...

Join Martin Robertson (lived experience researcher) and guests to explore rights-based ways of working in research on dance for dementia.The discussions form part of a project led by the University of Edinburgh called CREATE which stands for Cocreating a REsearch Agenda To facilitate Equitable Dance for Dementia.Topics covered include co-production, accessibility, and measurement and methods with guests living with dementia, and experts from Scottish Ballet, Dance Base (Scotland’s National Centre for Dance), the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the University of Edinburgh. To find out ...

In each episode of this BBC Radio 4 series, Mark Steel visits a UK town and researches its history, heritage and culture, after which he performs a bespoke evening of comedy for the local residents. Mark's destinations in series 3 & 4 are Berwick-upon-Tweed; Holyhead; Basingstoke; Douglas on the Isle of Man; Bungay; Wigan; Whitehaven; Tobermory; Corby; Handsworth; Ottery St. Mary and Chipping Norton. There's also a special episode recorded at the Edinburgh Festival.

'Piping Up' is a podcast brought to you by The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. An ‘Access All Areas’ Pass into the creativity and dedication that powers our show.Here, conversations aren’t just limited to the spectacle. They're about the real people, the real passion, and the pulsating heart behind the fanfare.From intimate chats with our performers to incredible insights from our crew and everything in between. Think of it as your front-row seat to the inner workings of one of the greatest shows on earth.Welcome to 'Piping Up’.

A humanities professor at a liberal arts college is terrified of what she feels is an inevitable act of violence, fearing that one day, she will be the victim of a disgruntled student’s aggression. As a single mother, no one matters more than her little boy. So when a senseless act of violence changes her life forever, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the very weapon used to perpetrate the crime—and to the irresistible feeling of power that comes from holding life and death in her hands.