Spencer Jones, 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

Robert Lepage

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

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

Darren Walsh at BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals

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

Tom Binns performs in the comedy round-up

The Magic Flute rebooted by Komische Oper Berlin, Barrie Kosky and British theatre group 1927

Michael Frayn on the idiosyncratic reactions of theatre audiences

Jazz Line-Up: Alison Affleck sings Billie Holiday

Mexican Writing, An Insider's View with Gabriel Orozco at Edinburgh International Book Festival