Edinburgh focus: What can be done to save the world's biggest and best arts festival?

As Edinburgh's annual summer spectacular kicks off amid cost-of-living hikes, rising accommodation costs and ongoing concerns about its sheer size and direction of travel, Fergus Morgan asks voices from the industry and beyond about the one thing they would change to secure the festival's future.

Preview: Fringe shows to explore the NHS at 70

Irvine Welsh interview

As a novelist, Irvine Welsh needs no introduction.

Brexit the Musical preview

Well, of course, there'd be a show called Brexit the Musical on the Fringe in 2017, but this one should at least be well informed.

The Amazing Bubble Man

Expect to be beguiled and amazed.

All Hell Toupee preview

One-woman satire by Kate Bowes Renna.

Assisted Suicide The Musical preview

The disability rights activist and actor Liz Carr, who had a memorable cameo in the BBC's Silent Witness, asks provocative questions about our attitudes to the idea of suicide for the terminally ill.

Performers preview

Irvine Welsh collaborates with Dean Cavanagh on a play set in the 1960s during the filming of the Mick Jagger movie Performance. The backdrop is a London where artists and gangsters rub shoulders.

The Uninvited 8 who showed up to the 1947 Festival

They're calling it Spirit of '47. It's a series of talks co-curated by the British Council as part of this year's 70th anniversary Edinburgh International Festival (EIF). The one on 16 August has an intriguing premise. It's called "Contesting the Spirit of Unity: Whose Festival? Whose Culture?" and rather than focus on the productions that were invited to the inaugural EIF, it's looking at those that weren't.

Still Game: Live 2 review - hilarity ahoy

When does a sitcom get too big for its boots? It's a worry that must have crossed the minds of Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill on returning to the hangar-like Hydro where, in 2014, Still Game played to 210,000 people in 21 nights.

There's something surreal about seeing the TV escapades of Jack and Victor in a venue where bouncers guard the stage and the audience needs two giant screens just to see what's happening. Undaunted, they've come back with a show of even greater ambition - and just as many laughs.