The Verb

Ian McMillan hosts performances by Liz Lochhead, Robert Crawford and Hannah Lavery at the Edinburgh Festival, recorded at the city's International Conference Centre. Lavery performs her work Edinburgh Is a Story, commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival, Crawford, author of books about writers as different as TS Eliot and Robert Burns, reads from his new collection Old World, and Lochhead, former Makar of Scotland, reads a selection of poems including Trouble Is Not My Middle Name, Coming to Poetry and Song for a Dirty Diva.