Jet-lagged, exuberant, and endlessly charming, Russell Tovey brings audio drama Starlings and a welcome dose of queer optimism to the Spiegeltent for Day 12.

At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Twitter’s unofficial poet laureate trades big belly laughs for gentle charm, delivering an understated, wryly clever hour.

David Olusoga draws crowds, Marina Warner champions ancient hospitality, and a seaside novel brings unintended naps: Day 10 at the Book Festival.

At Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall, Brìghde Chaimbeul and the Scottish Ensemble turn Gaelic music into a haunting, avant-garde test of acoustic endurance.

‘Endgame’ (Flabbergast Theatre, EICC) is Samuel Beckett’s existential masterpiece, written after he had nursed his brother, who was dying of lung cancer and in a period after ‘Godot’, when he…