Reading

Childhood

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America

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

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

Tim Burgess on a chance meeting with Steve Martin

The keyboard with a mind of its own

The school bus rap

"I nearly feigned a heart attack"

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

Trying Weight Watchers

Jonathan Safran Foer on writing his first book in ten years