Lili la Scala sings The Importance of Being Idle

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'

Juliette Binoche on why actors are 'different animals'

Alan Johnson on the dangers of being a rural postman

Fred MacAulay's five festival picks

Ali McGregor sings You Shook Me All Night Long

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

Phill Jupitus, Alan Cox and Marcus Brigstocke

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

Simon McBurney on the joy of performing

Richard Coles: 'It was our ambition to bring down Margaret Thatcher with pop music'

Jazz Line-Up: Darius Brubeck Quartet