Since 1976 the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture has been the centrepiece of the Edinburgh TV Festival. It provokes and inspires debate, conversation and change. Joining a long list of thinkers and luminaries, award-winning playwright and dramatist James Graham will deliver the 49th lecture. Laud...

Post-match analysis! James Graham is in conversation with Kirsty Wark to dig further into the themes, issues and questions arising from last night's MacTaggart Lecture.

Since 1976 the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture has been the centrepiece of the Edinburgh TV Festival. It provokes and inspires debate, conversation, and change. Joining a long list of thinkers and luminaries, award-winning broadcaster, author and podcaster Louis Theroux will deliver the 48th le...

The morning after the night before. Join Louis Theroux in a sit down with Mobeen Azhar to reflect and answer all the questions emerging from last night’s MacTaggart Lecture.

Launched in 1997, the annual Alternative MacTaggart provokes debate in the industry from different viewpoints. This year, actress, writer and comedian, Meera Syal CBE will speak to Festival Executive Chair, Fatima Salaria, about her experiences throughout a multifaceted career. The recipient of t...

Since 1976 the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture has been the centrepiece of the Edinburgh TV Festival. It provokes and inspires debate, conversation, and change. Joining a long list of thinkers and luminaries, award-winning journalist and broadcaster Emily Maitlis will deliver the 47th lecture, ...

The Edinburgh TV Festival, the UK’s leading television industry event brought to you by Screen Scotland’s exclusive in conversation with award-winning broadcaster Emily Maitlis following her highly esteemed 2022 MacTaggart Lecture, interviewed by last year’s Festival Chair Afua Hirsch.

Maitlis,...

Actress, BSL campaigner and Strictly winner Rose Ayling-Ellis takes to the stage to offer her perspective on the stark realities of life as a Deaf person working in television.

Highly acclaimed dramatist and playwright, Jack Thorne, is to deliver the flagship session of this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival brought to you by YouTube and Screen Scotland; The James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture.

A celebrated and multi award-winning creator and writer of TV shows, films and s...

Comedian, writer, actor and presenter, London Hughes, will be this year’s Alternative MacTaggart speaker. British comedian Hughes was the first British Black woman to be nominated for the Dave Edinburgh Comedy ‘Best Show’ Award for her 2019 show London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck which was later turn...

A regular face on our screens as presenter of shows such as A House Through Time, Black and British: A Forgotten History and the BAFTA Award winning Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners, David Olusoga has worked in television in front of, and behind, the camera for over 20 years. A British-Nigerian, ...

The British star of award-winning comedy The Good Place and founder of I Weigh, is also well known as a powerful voice on feminism, body positivity and inclusivity, and will deliver the Alternative MacTaggart Lecture, sharing her experiences of working in television in UK and US, dealing with onl...

For the first time, four of the previous MacTaggart speakers will appear together on stage to discuss the legacy of the lecture they gave, reflect upon each other’s messages, and to talk about the present-day relevance of their words.