"Music can change your hair"

Reading

Childhood

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America

The school bus rap

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

Glasgow Girls: It's No a Wean's Choice

Tim Burgess on a chance meeting with Steve Martin

A disastrous opening night

Rock 'n' Roll at the Edinburgh Fringe

Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents

A magic trick too far

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