Trail: BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals 2015

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

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

Alexander McCall Smith reads from The Revolving Door of Life

Basketball Man on Anneka Rice's Edinburgh

Simon Cartwright as Bob Monkhouse

Etgar Keret and Alain Mabanckou at Edinburgh International Book Festival

Alan Johnson on the dangers of being a rural postman

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

Luke Wright performs Have a Gong

Lili la Scala sings The Importance of Being Idle

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

Inside the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: Top Secret Drum Corps