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.
Juliet Stevenson: “I finally feel confident about myself”
Culture

Juliet Stevenson: “I finally feel confident about myself”

Val McDermid: “There were no lesbians in Fife in the 1960s”
Books

Val McDermid: “There were no lesbians in Fife in the 1960s”

Jess Phillips: “I found early motherhood horrendous”
Politics

Jess Phillips: “I found early motherhood horrendous”

Philip Glass: “I knew many great people. So many of them are gone now”
Music

Philip Glass: “I knew many great people. So many of them are gone now”

Miranda Richardson: “I don’t do social media. I need the human voice”
Film

Miranda Richardson: “I don’t do social media. I need the human voice”

Voices, Nick Coleman; Peach, Emma Glass
Books

Voices, Nick Coleman; Peach, Emma Glass

Steven Van Zandt: ‘We brought down apartheid through rock’n’roll’
Music

Steven Van Zandt: ‘We brought down apartheid through rock’n’roll’

Gary Oldman: ‘Meeting people I respect blows my mind when they revere me’
Film

Gary Oldman: ‘Meeting people I respect blows my mind when they revere me’

Writes of spring: the best upcoming reads of 2018
Books

Writes of spring: the best upcoming reads of 2018

Chuck D: ‘I wanted to transcend hip-hop’
Interview

Chuck D: ‘I wanted to transcend hip-hop’

Best of the Rest reads of 2017
Books

Best of the Rest reads of 2017

Books of the year as chosen by The Big Issue’s cultural figureheads
Books

Books of the year as chosen by The Big Issue’s cultural figureheads