Howard Jacobson on literature and political correctness

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

Robert Lepage on his Ka show for Cirque du Soleil

Mark Steel talks politics and comedy

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

Basketball Man on Anneka Rice's Edinburgh

Kirsty Logan finds inspiration in the North East coast of Scotland

Simon McBurney on the joy of performing

Howard Jacobson reads from his novel J

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

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