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

Reading

Childhood

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

How it feels to get flyered for your own show

Keeping it together onstage

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

Watching Taken with your mum

Andrew Hunter Murray's Fringe picks

Poets: Leyla Josephine

First ever fun run

Malaika Kegode: I tried to stop writing about you

Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust

"A triumph and a reason to carry on"