Mark Steel talks politics and comedy

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

Howard Jacobson reads from his novel J

Howard Jacobson on literature and political correctness

Inside the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: Top Secret Drum Corps

George the Poet reads See You on the Other Side

Ian Rankin: Crime writers need to cope with Police reorganisation

Simon McBurney on the joy of performing

Sean Michaels and Anna Smaill at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Alexander McCall Smith reads from The Revolving Door of Life

Bernat Klein and Kwang Young Chun at Dovecot Gallery

Funmbi Omotayo, BBC Presents the Next Big Thing

Alan Johnson on the dangers of being a rural postman

Robert Lepage on his Ka show for Cirque du Soleil