Reading

Childhood

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents

Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia

Edinburgh Dazzle ship: Timelapse

Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America

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

Jessica Fostekew's Fringe picks

Trying Weight Watchers

"Socks that agreed with him"

Adele Hampton: Speak your own melanin into a mirror

Alexei Sayle on life and 'inventing' British comedy