Reading

Childhood

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia

Jonathan Safran Foer on writing his first book in ten years

Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents

Trying Weight Watchers

Marin Alsop on leading the BBC Proms virtual orchestra

From War of the Worlds to Citizen Kane

Alan Cumming on flying to America - for the first time - with Ruby Wax

Pushing onto trains

'Just watch the hands': The genius of Boulez's conducting

B. Dolan - Still Electric