Mark Steel talks politics and comedy

Heather Holliday swallows swords... and a lightsaber

Luke Wright performs Have a Gong

Dean Owens sings Delia's Gone

Kathryn Joseph sings The Bird

Dean Owens sings I Still Miss Someone

Kathryn Joseph sings The Outtakes

Kathryn Joseph sings The Worm

Phill Jupitus, Alan Cox and Marcus Brigstocke

Kirsty Logan finds inspiration in the North East coast of Scotland

Anneka Rice talks to Simon McBurney

Howard Jacobson reads from his novel J

Jazz Line-Up: Corrina Hewat and Dave Milligan

Jazz Line-Up: The Darius Brubeck Quartet perform Take Five

Alan Johnson on the dangers of being a rural postman

Robert Lepage on 'choosing the prison' of Shakespeare

Sean Michaels and Anna Smaill at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Fred MacAulay's five festival picks

Jazz Line-Up: Closing set from the Darius Brubeck Quartet