Jane Graham
Jane Graham
Books editor Jane Graham is an award-winning arts journalist. As a BBC radio producer, she worked on Radios 1, 3 and 4 and Radio Ulster, with John Peel, Kirsty Wark, Mary Anne Hobbs, Ricky Gervais, and Steven Nolan. She has written for The Guardian, Uncut, The Sunday Times and The Scotsman and was a Belfast Telegraph columnist for ten years. She makes regular appearances on Radio Scotland & BBC Scotland. She has also worked closely with libraries, was a Reader in Residence for the Scottish Book Trust and was Scotland’s first Reading Ambassador for CultureNL.
Vinnie Jones: “Winners get stronger and losers get weaker”
Film

Vinnie Jones: “Winners get stronger and losers get weaker”

Lin-Manuel Miranda: “It was a no-brainer to take hip-hop into theatre”
Culture

Lin-Manuel Miranda: “It was a no-brainer to take hip-hop into theatre”

Mica Paris: “I proved you can be in this business and not be a car crash”
Music

Mica Paris: “I proved you can be in this business and not be a car crash”

Writers & Lovers, Lily King: I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me, Villalobos
Books

Writers & Lovers, Lily King: I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me, Villalobos

Sorry for your Trouble, Richard Ford: Stalingrad, Vasily Grossman (audiobook)
Books

Sorry for your Trouble, Richard Ford: Stalingrad, Vasily Grossman (audiobook)

Judy Collins: I didn’t write songs until after I met Leonard Cohen.
Music

Judy Collins: I didn’t write songs until after I met Leonard Cohen.

Cherie Blair: ‘I thought I’d be the first woman prime minister’
News

Cherie Blair: ‘I thought I’d be the first woman prime minister’

Jay Rayner: ‘Lockdown has made me aware that I’m a very privileged man’
Books

Jay Rayner: ‘Lockdown has made me aware that I’m a very privileged man’

Julia Donaldson: ‘I didn’t want to be a writer, I wanted to be an actress’
Books

Julia Donaldson: ‘I didn’t want to be a writer, I wanted to be an actress’

Gregory Porter: “I harvested moments from my life to put into songwriting”
Music

Gregory Porter: “I harvested moments from my life to put into songwriting”

Max Richter: “I was furious with the world… it was the apex of Thatcherism”
Music

Max Richter: “I was furious with the world… it was the apex of Thatcherism”

David Lammy: ‘I have to be robust in public but I don’t feel that way inside’
Politics

David Lammy: ‘I have to be robust in public but I don’t feel that way inside’