Audio & Video
Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America
The author explains why he set his new novel in California.
- Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America
- Squashing Words
- Books I’ve Written
- Making a Leopard Monster
- Superpowers
- Steve’s Monsters
- Making a Monster
- Alien Stink Song
- Marina Warner: 'Fairy tales are in the DNA of cultures'
- The school bus rap
- Marin Alsop: 'The need to pigeonhole music is limiting'
- Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust
- A disastrous opening night
- Adele Hampton: Speak your own melanin into a mirror
- What to do (and not do) at the Edinburgh Fringe
- "Spirit of the Fringe"
- Tim Burgess: What happened when I asked Lou Reed for an autograph
- Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents