Reading

Childhood

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

Adele Hampton: Speak your own melanin into a mirror

Keeping it together onstage

"Music can change your hair"

Tom Ballard on his first Fringe

Marin Alsop on her speech at the Last Night of the Proms

Trying Weight Watchers

"...and then they all booed me."

Alexei Sayle on life and 'inventing' British comedy

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

Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents