The Book Festival in Charlotte Square is a real highlight in August for anyone who loves reading. Here we speak to Nick about the news of a big new sponsorship, some of the big names and the problems they encountered last year of visas for authors and where they are in dealing with that now.

There is a very special bottle of whisky for sale this week at Bonhams and Martin tells us all about it here.

Stephen Salter explains to us here his work over two decades to combat climate change. He hopes that the Centre for Climate Change at Cambridge University might pick his Project for funding in the future. This is science made simple by a master educator!

Sir Sandy Crombie is someone who is quite well known in Edinburgh we speak to him here about his involvement with Cameron Hume where he was appointed chairman in October 2018.

The council leader read our story about Forever Young which has had its funding slashed by 84%. He explained that the administration had wanted to deal with community funding in Locality networks but their political opponents had put a stop to that.

We spoke to Mark Adams who is the Artistic Director of EIFF about the Edinburgh angle of the programme. First you hear part of CEO Ken Hay’s speech

On the night when votes were being counted in Edinburgh in the European Parliamentary Election 2019

Claudia is a fashion designer and her linen finished off in Newhaven Harbour will be on display at Custom Lane this weekend. Here she tells us about it.

The council begins a six week consultation on 20 May 2019 on plans to radically alter traffic movement in the city centre.

I tried hard to talk to him about the Festival offering at Summerhall but Mr McDowell wants you all to hear about the talk he is giving there on 23 May. Listen up!