Rob Chapman speaks with John Siddique about how music saved him from his disastrous secondary education, lyrics and literature, and his celebrated biography of musician Syd Barrett.
David Spencer takes us on a tour of Halifax, exploring its 20th century history and meeting his own family ghosts.
Leigh Russell takes us far from the bucolic, to a piece of waste ground lying beside a railway track.
Jill Dawson discusses the writers – mostly American, many black – that nourished her through a series of difficult youthful circumstances, offering her 'a shape to discover myself in'.
Rob Chapman continues his conversation with John Siddique, exploring his move into music journalism, his wide-ranging exploration of sixties psychedelia, and his return to writing fiction.