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Belfast Festival at Queen's 2009
Watch videos of the launch of the festival programme at QFT

Belfast Festival: Barbara Cook
Philip Hammond on the living legend of musical theatre as she heads to Ireland for the first time, a day before her 82nd birthday

Belfast Festival: Tinariwen
Stuart Bailie on the Saharan blues band headed for the Belfast Festival

Belfast Festival: Mariinsky Orchestra
'You just shouldn’t miss a Gergiev concert. Something special will definitely happen and you have to be there to experience it.'

Belfast Festival: David Peace
Yorkshire's finest on story-telling, Brian Clough and why post-war Japan has lessons for us all

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