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Dua Lipa, Sara Collins, Edinburgh festivals cancelled, Molly O鈥機athain

Dua Lipa on her new album, author Sara Collins on the pressure to write about race, the Edinburgh festivals cancellation and Molly O鈥機athain on recreating famous paintings online.

Dua Lipa shares the inspiration behind her new album Future Nostalgia, what it's been like releasing an album under quarantine.

As the Edinburgh Festivals are cancelled this year, Joyce McMillan of The Scotsman discusses what this means for theatre, comedy and the arts, and for the city itself.

Set and costume designer Molly O鈥機athain, on lockdown at home with her parents in Dublin, has combined her love of art and skill as a production designer to recreate famous painting of couples using her parents as models. She tells John how she's been doing it.

Sara Collins won the 2019 Costa First Novel Award for The Confessions of Frannie Langton. In the latest in our J鈥橝ccuse series, she takes on what she sees as the segregation of publishing and the expectations on writers of colour to 鈥渢ackle鈥 the subject of race.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Hannah Robins

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Dua Lipa

Dua Lipa

, the latest album,聽is out now.

Image Credit: Warner Records

Molly O'Cathain

Molly O'Cathain

You can view all of Molly's Parental Pandemic Portraits on her .

Image: Day 13 Molly O'Cathain: My Parents, 2020 - Parental Pandemic Portraits by Molly O'Cathain

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