Reading

Childhood

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

Edinburgh Nights: Richard Wilson and Angus Deayton

Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents

Glasgow Girls: It's No a Wean's Choice

Poets: Leyla Josephine

Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America

Rappers: Ransom FA

Trying Weight Watchers

Tim Burgess: What happened when I asked Lou Reed for an autograph

Keeping it together onstage

"Socks that agreed with him"