Poetry Slam Grand Final: Scott Tyrrell

Jazz Line-Up: The Darius Brubeck Quartet perform Take Five

Maggie O’Farrell on the books that inspired her childhood

Alan Johnson on the dangers of being a rural postman

Kathryn Joseph sings The Outtakes

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

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

Jazz Line-Up: Alison Affleck sings Billie Holiday

Juliette Binoche on why actors are 'different animals'

Robert Lepage on his Ka show for Cirque du Soleil

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