Alexei Sayle on life and 'inventing' British comedy

Reading

Childhood

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

Keeping it together onstage

"A triumph and a reason to carry on"

Erica Jong on sex and ageing

Scott Tyrrell: Bad Dad!

Watching Taken with your mum

Malaika Kegode: I tried to stop writing about you

Alan Cumming on a meeting with Oprah

The keyboard with a mind of its own

Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America