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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. Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia
    03:16
    Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia
  10. From War of the Worlds to Citizen Kane
    01:45
    From War of the Worlds to Citizen Kane
  11. Tim Burgess: What happened when I asked Lou Reed for an autograph
    02:49
    Tim Burgess: What happened when I asked Lou Reed for an autograph
  12. Keeping it together onstage
    00:46
    Keeping it together onstage
  13. Ben Norris: Barafundle bundle
    02:59
    Ben Norris: Barafundle bundle
  14. Arthur Smith's Fringe picks
    01:32
    Arthur Smith's Fringe picks
  15. Cariad Lloyd's Fringe picks
    02:19
    Cariad Lloyd's Fringe picks
  16. Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America
    01:19
    Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America
  17. "Thespians who have children"
    00:40
    "Thespians who have children"
  18. Poets: Leyla Josephine
    03:01
    Poets: Leyla Josephine
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