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Marina Warner: 'Fairy tales are in the DNA of cultures'
The author talks about the ways stories are passed from generation to generation.
  1. Marina Warner: 'Fairy tales are in the DNA of cultures'
    03:15
    Marina Warner: 'Fairy tales are in the DNA of cultures'
  2. Reading
    04:11
    Reading
  3. Childhood
    05:49
    Childhood
  4. Writing Books for her Daughter
    04:53
    Writing Books for her Daughter
  5. Scarlet Umbrella
    04:17
    Scarlet Umbrella
  6. The Characters
    04:10
    The Characters
  7. Playing Instruments
    03:50
    Playing Instruments
  8. Q&A
    03:47
    Q&A
  9. Malaika Kegode: I tried to stop writing about you
    02:55
    Malaika Kegode: I tried to stop writing about you
  10. Trying Weight Watchers
    00:59
    Trying Weight Watchers
  11. Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust
    02:57
    Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust
  12. The Haka at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo
    00:15
    The Haka at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo
  13. "A triumph and a reason to carry on"
    00:25
    "A triumph and a reason to carry on"
  14. Alan Cumming on a meeting with Oprah
    01:19
    Alan Cumming on a meeting with Oprah
  15. Arthur Smith's Fringe picks
    01:32
    Arthur Smith's Fringe picks
  16. Marin Alsop: 'The need to pigeonhole music is limiting'
    02:40
    Marin Alsop: 'The need to pigeonhole music is limiting'
  17. Keeping it together onstage
    00:46
    Keeping it together onstage
  18. James Kelman: Too Scottish?
    03:04
    James Kelman: Too Scottish?
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