Katherine Ryan, Hosting BBC Presents the Next Big Thing

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

Howard Jacobson reads from his novel J

Howard Jacobson on literature and political correctness

Anneka Rice talks to Simon McBurney

Sean Michaels and Anna Smaill at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Simon Cartwright as Bob Monkhouse

Kathryn Joseph sings The Bird

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

Juliette Binoche on why actors are 'different animals'

Luke Wright performs Have a Gong

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

Jazz Line-Up: Alison Affleck sings Billie Holiday

Maggie O’Farrell on the books that inspired her childhood