Kirsty Wark presents interviews and performances from the world's biggest arts festival.

As an ambitious new production of Alasdair Gray's seminal novel Lanark opens in Edinburgh, Kirsty talks to its director and cast about the challenges of adapting such an epic work for the stage.

Mark Thomas talks to some of the performers making their mark with monologues at this year’s Fringe and asks whether budgetary pressures or artistic decisions are behind the rise of the solo show.

Franz Ferdinand recently joined forces with the American rock group Sparks to form the supergroup F.F.S. Kirsty interviews them about their artistic collaboration, and there is a special performance by the band.

Plus music from the Hackney Colliery Band. Show less