Edinburgh International Festival 8th-31st August 2008

We speak to Keith Webb, Director of Pyrovision, the company behind the spectacular end of festival fireworks concert and Morgan Bevis, aged nine, who will be setting off the fireworks on Sunday night.

Hear what some of the country's top critics make of the Festival 08 programme as well as their recommendations for 'must see' shows. Top picks from Joyce McMillan, Robert Dawson Scott, Andrew Clark and Margaret Willis.

In the run up to one of Festival 08's most hotly anticipated events, listen to interviews with Festival Director Jonathan Mills, Event Coordinator Alison Lewis, Deputy Head of Sponsorship for Bank of Scotland, Karen Tighe, and Scottish Chamber Orchestra Events Manager, Rod Bain.

Thanks to a Festival 08 inspired menu, queues outside the Hub cafe have been a regular feature for the last few weeks. Listen to head chef Suzanne Lynch explain some of the new menu items and the inspirations behind them.

Listen to an interview with the director and choreographer of Australian dance company Chunky Move, Gideon Obarzanek. In the clip he talks about the ground breaking light and dance show Mortal Engine which runs at The Edinburgh Playhouse until Tuesday 19 August.

Listen to John Elliot Gardiner, Conductor of the Orchestre Revolutionnaire Et Romantique, talk about the emotional impact of the works that will be performed on Tuesday 19 August at the Usher Hall.

Listen to what the audience members thought of this play from the National Theatre of Palestine. Written by Mahmoud Darwish and adapted by Khalifa Natour.

Listen to an indepth analysis of this year's Queen's Hall Series with top picks and points of interest from two of Scotland's best known classical music critics, Ken Walton and Carol Main.

EIF director Jonathan Mills talks through some of the highlights of the second week of Festival 08

Firebrand Venezuelan maestro Gustavo Dudamel, conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, charms a group of assembled UK press at the Usher Hall.

Find out what the audiences thought of Giselle at the Edinburgh Playhouse by the State Ballet of Georgia.

Hear what the audience thought after the Opening Night performance of The Tell-Tale Heart at EIF on Saturday 9 August. The Tell-Tale Heart is Barrie Kosky's adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe's story and stars Martin Niedermair and Barrie Kosky.