Reading

Childhood

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

From War of the Worlds to Citizen Kane

Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia

Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust

Marin Alsop on her speech at the Last Night of the Proms

"I nearly feigned a heart attack"

We hope you're sitting down

Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America

Adele Hampton: Speak your own melanin into a mirror

Rappers: Ransom FA

B. Dolan - Still Electric