Reading

Childhood

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents

Malaika Kegode: I tried to stop writing about you

The difference between Glasgow and Edinburgh festivals

"Everyone has a lot of lanyards on"

Rappers: Ransom FA

James Kelman: Too Scottish?

Alan Cumming on a meeting with Oprah

Marin Alsop: 'The need to pigeonhole music is limiting'

"Socks that agreed with him"

"I nearly feigned a heart attack"