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In a special interview recorded live in front of an audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, novelist and screenwriter David Nicholls discusses how his acting career influenced his writing, and why he returns so often to the awkwardness, tenderness and agonies of adolescence and young love.

According to current trends, every one of Iceland鈥檚 400 glaciers will disappear in the next 200 years due to climate change, and last weekend there was a ceremony to mark the first glacier lost. Icelandic author Andri Snaer Magnason who was part of the ceremony shares his thoughts.

大象传媒 correspondent in Dhaka, Akbar Hossain tells of the aftermath of the fire that ripped through slums in the Dhaka district of Mirpur in Bangladesh earlier this month which has left potentially as many as ten thousand without a home.

Can love be a part of a professionalised service where the language of rights and responsibilities is often set against a legal framework rather than a loving one? Chief Executive of the children鈥檚 charity Aberlour SallyAnn Kelly and Rosie Moore co-chair of Scotland鈥檚 Independent Care Review鈥檚 Love Working Group discuss.

Reporter Pauline Moore meets with Edinburgh based Fischy music who have been working with primary school children and hospice patients to write and perform new songs.

International Editor for Channel 4 News, Lindsey Hilsum, is the winner of this year鈥檚 prestigious James Tait Black Prize for Biography. In her book In Extremis she tells the story of her friend, the Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin, who spent her career inside some of the world鈥檚 most volatile hotspots. Marie died in February 2012 while she was covering the siege of Homs in Syria.