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"I nearly feigned a heart attack"
Zoe Lyons talks about playing to "tiny, tiny audiences" at the Edinburgh Fringe.
  1. "I nearly feigned a heart attack"
    01:31
    "I nearly feigned a heart attack"
  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. Keeping it together onstage
    00:46
    Keeping it together onstage
  10. A disastrous opening night
    04:16
    A disastrous opening night
  11. Watching Taken with your mum
    00:31
    Watching Taken with your mum
  12. Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust
    02:57
    Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust
  13. Where are the Edinburgh class of 96 now?
    02:29
    Where are the Edinburgh class of 96 now?
  14. "I couldn't have loved that family anymore"
    01:24
    "I couldn't have loved that family anymore"
  15. Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents
    01:47
    Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents
  16. "A triumph and a reason to carry on"
    00:25
    "A triumph and a reason to carry on"
  17. Jackie Kay reads A Lang Promise
    01:46
    Jackie Kay reads A Lang Promise
  18. Lazy Susan give us some Fringe heart breakers
    01:11
    Lazy Susan give us some Fringe heart breakers
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