Reading

Childhood

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

The difference between Glasgow and Edinburgh festivals

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

Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust

Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents

Jonathan Safran Foer on writing his first book in ten years

Ben Norris: Barafundle bundle

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

Adele Hampton: Speak your own melanin into a mirror

Tom Wrigglesworth's Fringe picks

Erica Jong on sex and ageing