Fringe Firsts: six more winners of our Edinburgh Fringe new writing awards revealed

Themes from climate change to mental health are explored by this week's Scotsman award-winners.

Tall stories: performers on their wildest Edinburgh moments

Stand-up in a swimming pool, naked tractor driving, heart attacks, heckles, walkouts, rain and an onstage marriage proposal - as the fringe turns 75, this year's performers on the memories that make the festival unique.

Eddie Izzard, Michael Palin and more on 75 years of the Edinburgh Fringe

Stars of stage and screen share their Edinburgh memories.

A pivotal, penultimate instalment of a series that's stealthily taking its place in 2019's comedy pantheon. Proving that star/co-writer Toby Jones and creator Tim Crouch can do taut episodes as well as artful longueurs, Pete's improvised family share a day of epiphanies ... at a model village.

Problematic was the opener to Don't Forget the Driver. I'm sure we all love Toby Jones, star and co-writer with playwright Tim Crouch, but fear this is too soulful, too sharply now, to garner the audiences it truly deserves. Part of the problem is classification: for a "dark comedy" there are precious few outright laughs, especially once people-smuggling and drowned bodies intrude, and hence it also fails "gentle", as fans of Detectorists might have wished.

Instead, I urge you not to classify, and to forge further, to keep Jones's faith. You will be rewarded - not instantly, but well. This ambitiously sad drama succeeds, often despite itself, in clarifying the unclarifiable now, a now of left-behind seaside towns, unquantifiable regrets, the equal satisfactions and smugnesses which small island lives bring, the long, dark teatimes of the soul, the stuttered emergence into rain-dappled, crisp-bagged uplands. It might not yet ring funny. It always rings true.

Toby Jones and Tim Crouch interview

It's hard to tell a story about people smuggling through the lens of humour, but if anyone can do it, it's Toby Jones and his writing sidekick Tim Crouch.

Review: Don't Forget the Driver

Don't Forget The Driver sets out to portray both the beauty and ugliness of small-town Britain but in doing so separately can often feel like a mixed bag, when in real life, and in the series in its better moments, these things can overlap or even be one in the same.

Toby Jones nobody wants a comedy about Brexit

Toby Jones has written his first sitcom, about a coach driver in Bognor Regis. He and his co-writer Tim Crouch talk politics and the past.

Don't Forget the Driver, BBC2, review

Toby Jones is affecting in melancholy comedy.