Reading

Childhood

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

"I nearly feigned a heart attack"

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

Watching Taken with your mum

"Music can change your hair"

First ever fun run

Edinburgh Dazzle ship: Timelapse

Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust

Sage Francis

'Do you believe in fairies?'

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