Mark Steel talks politics and comedy

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'

Howard Jacobson on literature and political correctness

Jesse Jackson: 'Can you imagine a state in Germany having the right to fly a Nazi flag?'

George the Poet reads His Mistakes

Howard Jacobson reads from his novel J

Jazz Line-Up: Darius Brubeck Quartet

Simon Cartwright as Bob Monkhouse

Claire Fuller and Nick Holdstock at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Juliette Binoche on why she hasn't embraced Hollywood

Robert Lepage

Anneka Rice talks to Simon McBurney