Funmbi Omotayo, BBC Presents the Next Big Thing

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

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

Robert Lepage on 'choosing the prison' of Shakespeare

Simon McBurney on the joy of performing

Inside the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: Massed Pipes and Drums

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

Allan Little and Sheena MacDonald read a passage by Michael Frayn

Bernat Klein and Kwang Young Chun at Dovecot Gallery

Ali McGregor sings Song 2

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

Inside the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: Top Secret Drum Corps