Childhood

Reading

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

Adele Hampton: Speak your own melanin into a mirror

Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America

Watching Taken with your mum

Asking are you in or out

"A triumph and a reason to carry on"

Keeping it together onstage

Pushing onto trains

The keyboard with a mind of its own

Tim Burgess on a chance meeting with Steve Martin

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