Roisin Ingle

Jenny Jennings is the programme director of Beyond the Pale and Fiona McGinn is the festival lead for Kaleidoscope.

They came in to tell us about their preparations for both festivals.

And I began by asking Jenny to tell us about the relative newcomer to the festival scene, Beyond the Pale.

Jenny, thank you very much for coming in.

Tell us about Beyond the Pale and what kind of festival it is, because it's only a few years old.

That's lovely.

And it hasn't got too big, I think, as well.

It's another thing.

This is a nice feel.

You're the arts programme director for the festival.

So what does that entail?

And the great thing is like why we're having you on is because there's loads of brilliant women behind the scenes of these festivals, I think, all the time.

So you're programme director.

What does that entail?

That's a lot to juggle.

And also, as you mentioned, you're the co-director of This Is The Pop Baby.

Yeah.

Hugely successful, brilliant theatre company.

And you've got a show coming on there as well.

So a lot of balls in the air at the moment.