Writing Books for her Daughter

Reading

Childhood

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

Asking are you in or out

Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents

Erica Jong on sex and ageing

Sage Francis

From War of the Worlds to Citizen Kane

Alexei Sayle on life and 'inventing' British comedy

What to do (and not do) at the Edinburgh Fringe

A magic trick too far

"A triumph and a reason to carry on"

Tom Ballard on his first Fringe