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Marina Warner: 'Fairy tales are in the DNA of cultures'
The author talks about the ways stories are passed from generation to generation.
  1. Marina Warner: 'Fairy tales are in the DNA of cultures'
    03:15
    Marina Warner: 'Fairy tales are in the DNA of cultures'
  2. Squashing Words
    05:58
    Squashing Words
  3. Books I’ve Written
    02:35
    Books I’ve Written
  4. Making a Leopard Monster
    04:35
    Making a Leopard Monster
  5. Superpowers
    08:09
    Superpowers
  6. Steve’s Monsters
    02:19
    Steve’s Monsters
  7. Making a Monster
    08:35
    Making a Monster
  8. Alien Stink Song
    05:04
    Alien Stink Song
  9. Alan Cumming on a meeting with Oprah
    01:19
    Alan Cumming on a meeting with Oprah
  10. Tim Burgess on a chance meeting with Steve Martin
    02:34
    Tim Burgess on a chance meeting with Steve Martin
  11. Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust
    02:57
    Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust
  12. EIF Conversations: Marin Alsop
    47:43
    EIF Conversations: Marin Alsop
  13. "I nearly feigned a heart attack"
    01:31
    "I nearly feigned a heart attack"
  14. A disastrous opening night
    04:16
    A disastrous opening night
  15. Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America
    01:19
    Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America
  16. Scott Tyrrell: Bad Dad!
    03:10
    Scott Tyrrell: Bad Dad!
  17. Adele Hampton: Speak your own melanin into a mirror
    02:33
    Adele Hampton: Speak your own melanin into a mirror
  18. Marin Alsop: 'The need to pigeonhole music is limiting'
    02:40
    Marin Alsop: 'The need to pigeonhole music is limiting'
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