大象传媒 - Scotland - 大象传媒 Scotland's coverage of the 2011 Edinburgh Festivals

Published on 29 June 2011

大象传媒 Scotland's coverage of the 2011 Edinburgh Festivals

For the first time ever, this year's 大象传媒 Edinburgh Festival benefited from combining a wide array of talents under one roof for all its Fringe activities. , near Bristo Square was the base of the 大象传媒's activities from Friday 12 to Saturday 27 August. You can catch up with some of the highlights of our coverage below.

大象传媒 Radio Scotland's blog and 大象传媒 News were on hand with regular reports and 大象传媒 Comedy kept track of the funnies. There was also a whole host of tv and radio coverage which you can find out more about below.

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BOOK FESTIVAL: 'THE KID' by SAPPHIRE

New York author Sapphire has brought her new book to this year's festival. It follows on from her hard-hitting first novel 'Push' which was made into the Oscar-winning film 'Precious'. Fourteen years on, 'The Kid' continues with the extremely dark, violent story of orphan Abdul. In this clip, Sapphire speaks at length with Kirsty Wark about the novel's abused, and abusive, central character. FInd out what the panelists think of 'The Kid' on The Review Show, Friday 26th August at 11pm. We asked Jon Oliver from the Daily Show to give us his view on how satirists and comedians have adapted to Obama's Presidency. Antonia Fraser's memoir of life with the late Harold Pinter is full of recollections of how the playwright thought and wrote about life and death. Kirsty Wark went to meet her.

More Edinburgh Festivals 2011 on 大象传媒 TV & Radio

and his team broadcast daily from Potterow and guests included Al Murray, Ed Byrne, Arthur Smith, Time Vine and many more.

and also broadcast daily and brought you the latest news, interviews and discussion from the festival

Highlighting the best theatre, dance, music, opera, performance, art, literature and comedy that the festival has to offer.

In three weekly live shows, Kirsty Wark was joined by guests to debate the merits of the plethora of art exhibitions, book launches, plays, operas, ballets and comedians.

This action-packed programme of highlights featured exciting displays and music from the Massed Bands of Her Majesty's Royal Marines, the Brazilian Marine Corps Band, the German Mountain Army Band and much more.

Throughout the month of August, The Comedy Zone showcased lots of great Fringe comedy talent, presented by Paul Sinha, Andi Osho and more.

Broadcasting live from in Edinburgh on Sunday 4 Sept with guests , , and .

and ran three one day stand up comedy workshops on 23rd/24th/25th August 2011

Jamie MacDougall came live from Edinburgh with musicians from the International Festival.

The series shall be recording throughout the with broadcasts scheduled for the end of August/early September.

At this year's EIF the 大象传媒 SSO renewed its close partnership with composer , by revisiting the extraordinary Triptych he composed especially for the orchestra and .

and brought their feast of football chat to the festival on August 27 and brought 's Edinburgh Festival coverage to a close.