Mark Steel talks politics and comedy

Maggie O’Farrell on the books that inspired her childhood

The Harmonium Project

Alexander McCall Smith reads from The Revolving Door of Life

Robert Lepage on 'choosing the prison' of Shakespeare

Heather Holliday swallows swords... and a lightsaber

Anneka Rice talks to Simon McBurney

Ian Rankin: Crime writers need to cope with Police reorganisation

Jesse Jackson on America's culture of violence

Juliette Binoche on why actors are 'different animals'

Liz Lochhead: Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off

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