Funmbi Omotayo, BBC Presents the Next Big Thing

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'

Poetry Slam Grand Final: Scott Tyrrell

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

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

Inside the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: Massed Pipes and Drums

Kathryn Joseph sings The Worm

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

Simon McBurney on the joy of performing

Juliette Binoche on why actors are 'different animals'

Howard Jacobson reads from his novel J

Jesse Jackson on the Black Lives Matter movement