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

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'

Anneka Rice talks to Simon McBurney

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

Darren Walsh at BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals

Maggie O’Farrell on the books that inspired her childhood

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

George the Poet reads His Mistakes

Ian Rankin: Crime writers need to cope with Police reorganisation

Foil, Arms and Hog

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

Jesse Jackson on the Black Lives Matter movement