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
- Reading
- Childhood
- Writing Books for her Daughter
- Scarlet Umbrella
- The Characters
- Playing Instruments
- Q&A
- Alan Cumming on a meeting with Oprah
- Keeping it together onstage
- Tom Ballard on his first Fringe
- Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia
- Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust
- Trying Weight Watchers
- The difference between Glasgow and Edinburgh festivals
- Marin Alsop: 'The need to pigeonhole music is limiting'
- B Dolan
- "I nearly feigned a heart attack"

















