Editing Iain Banks (section)

===Radio and television===
Banks was the subject of ''The Strange Worlds of Iain Banks'' ''[[The South Bank Show|South Bank Show]]'' (1997), a TV documentary that examined his mainstream writing, and was an in-studio guest for the final episode of [[Marc Riley]]'s ''Rocket Science'' radio show, broadcast on [[BBC Radio 6 Music]].<ref name="Simon"/> An audio version of ''The Business'', set to contemporary music, arranged by [[Paul Oakenfold]], was broadcast in October 1999 on Galaxy Fm as the tenth [[Urban Soundtracks]].
Banks's ''The State of the Art,'' adapted for radio by [[Paul Cornell]], was broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]] in 2009 with Nadia Molinari producing and directing.<ref name="State of the Art"/><ref name="State of the Art Radio 4"/> In 1998 ''Espedair Street'' was dramatised as a serial for Radio 4, presented by [[Paul Gambaccini]] in the style of a Radio 1 documentary.

In 2011 Banks featured on the BBC Radio 4 programme ''Saturday Live''. Banks reaffirmed his atheism in this appearance, explaining death as an important "part of the totality of life" that should be treated realistically instead of feared.<ref name="bbc">{{cite web|title=Saturday Live 21/05/2011|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0118bgr|work=BBC Radio 4|publisher=BBC|access-date=6 April 2013|author=Richard Coles}}</ref><ref name="atheism"/>

Banks appeared on the BBC television programme ''[[Question Time (television)|Question Time]]'', a show that features political discussion. In 2006 he captained a team of writers to victory in a special series of [[BBC Two]]'s ''[[University Challenge: The Professionals|University Challenge]]''. Banks also won a 2006 edition of [[BBC One]]'s ''[[Mastermind (television)|Celebrity Mastermind]]''; the author selected "Malt whisky and the distilleries of Scotland" as his specialist subject.<ref name="Simon"/><ref name="Jeffries2007"/>

His final interview was with [[Kirsty Wark]], broadcast on BBC2 Scotland as ''Iain Banks: Raw Spirit'' 12 June 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02xf70k |title=Iain Banks: Raw Spirit – BBC Two|website=BBC}}</ref>

BBC One Scotland and BBC2 broadcast an adaptation of his novel ''[[Stonemouth]]'' in June 2015.