Basketball Man on Anneka Rice's Edinburgh

Ian Rankin: Crime writers need to cope with Police reorganisation

Alexander McCall Smith reads from The Revolving Door of Life

Kirsty Logan finds inspiration in the North East coast of Scotland

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

Jesse Jackson on America's culture of violence

Spencer Jones, BBC Presents the Next Big Thing

Simon Cartwright as Bob Monkhouse

Simon McBurney

Maggie O’Farrell on the books that inspired her childhood

Lili la Scala sings The Importance of Being Idle

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

Jazz Line-Up: Corrina Hewat and Dave Milligan

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