The Festival Cafe - 12/08/2010

Witty conversation, entertaining performances and great music live from the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. Hosted by Janice Forsyth. Janice is joined on the sofa by award-winning Australian author Christos Tsiolkas, whose novel THE SLAP chronicles the fallout among a group of family and friends in contemporary Melbourne, after a young boy is slapped for misbehaving at a family party. Christos has been in Scotland for the last three months, and his new book will have Scottish inspiration... There'll be live performances from Tony Award-wining performer Frances Ruffelle and Canadian rap artist Baba Brinkman, who is performing his Rap Guide to Human Nature at the Fringe. Janice owns up to her own teenage crush as she talks to two women behind the play COULD IT BE FOREVER, which revolves around their own crush on David Cassidy. And Andrew Hawkins, son of much-loved actor Jack Hawkins (Zulu, Ben Hur) will be talking about his fringe show - in which he aims to halt the decline of acting standards!