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Connie McLaughlin takes Sunday Morning to the festival stage at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. And providing live music from 8 to 10am is the brilliantly talented Aberdeenshire folk singer Iona Fyfe.

Poet, novelist and champion of the Scots language James Robertson speaks to Connie about the importance of getting the next generation speaking Scots.

Barton Williams, who has brought his incredible personal story to the festival in his show ‘Precious Cargo’, tells Connie about being one of the thousands of babies taken after the war in Vietnam to be adopted by an Australian family.

‘Through the Mud’ creator and performer Apphia Campbell shares the story of two activists generations apart who find themselves fighting for Black rights and equality in America, plus we hear one of the amazing songs from the show.

Broadcaster and journalist Terry Christian, who has brought his show ‘The Naked Confessions of a Recovering Catholic’ to this year’s fringe, discusses some of the more unusual rituals from his Irish-Catholic upbringing in Manchester.

Comedian and writer Alison Larkin explains why she made a comedy out of her grief, and how Desmond Tutu is the one who pushed her to create her show ‘Grief… A Comedy’.

And psychologist and fatigue expert Vincent Deary speaks about the dangers of stress and overwhelm, and the importance of injecting downtime and joy into our lives; the subject of his latest book How We Break: Navigating the Wear and Tear of Living.