We spoke to Joe Harvey about his career as a charity worker and the road he took to get there. 

"Not one day is the same. I get to work with fantastic, hard working people, people who really have you back through the thick and thin. It’s such a special moment when everything comes together and you’re looking at the monitor like ‘Wow…we did this?!"

We speak to musical artist SlickdotR, who talks to us about his upcoming album, 'SR3'.

"To me, that balance is what matters, and it's a real joy that this job provides me with both that balance and something I am sincerely interested in and that gives me satisfaction."

"Robust, accurate journalism needs to come from newsrooms which contain a range of experiences and perspectives."

We spoke to Hafsah Malik, who took her love for media studies, moved to Dubai and made a career for herself doing what she loves. Hafsah shares her inspirations, aspirations and offers some timeless advice for young people. 

“You blink, two decades have passed, and you become the thing you always despised, a three-dimensional, functional adult with reasonable expectations.”

"One of the aspects I love about being a performer is the rapport with other artists, and it’s incredible that within one city for the month of August, Edinburgh contains all the artists I admire, work with or aspire to meet. Isn’t that just magical?"

"My mum would write stories and read them to my twin brother and me when we were small. I remember her making up this epic fantasy Odyssey which, as I recall it, might be one of the greatest things ever written. But according to her she lost it. A true tragedy."

"It made me focus on the gigs I was doing. It became more out the quality rather than the quantity and how every set or show was building towards creating something, in this case my show Soft Lad"

"It’s silly, sincere and heartfelt... My show is for the Ali from 2018 that didn’t know how to cope. I’d like to think if I had seen this show back then, I would have made some different decisions."

"I'm not convinced that 'cancel culture' is sufficiently coherent a concept that an exemption from it could reasonably be sought."