Kathryn Joseph sings The Outtakes

Robert Lepage on portraying himself in 887

Robert Lepage on 'choosing the prison' of Shakespeare

Robert Lepage on his Ka show for Cirque du Soleil

Heather Holliday swallows swords... and a lightsaber

Claire Fuller and Nick Holdstock at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Val McDermid's advice to Nicola Sturgeon and aspiring writers: 'Just do it'

Val McDermid on the Scottish referendum: 'We wanted to call our house swithering heights'

Darren Walsh at BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals

Allan Little and Sheena MacDonald read a passage by Michael Frayn

Simon Cartwright as Bob Monkhouse

Stuart Evers and Dorthe Nors at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Alan Johnson on the dangers of being a rural postman

Howard Jacobson: I'd rather call myself the Jewish Jane Austen