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Music cannot work a magic spell. It can, however, do wonderful things. In recent issues of BBC Music Magazine, we have explored the benefits to mental health of listening and playing music, not least

Hildur Guðnadóttir is scrolling through her phone. Whereas most people use the device to collect photographs and notes alongside contact numbers, the Icelandic composer records snippets of music. Thes

I guess my main preoccupations at 16 were just trying to stay out of trouble. I was incredibly unsuccessful with finding girlfriends and things like that. Really, very, very unsuccessful. I think I wa

In the depths of grief, author Cathy Bramley discovered a way to pull through that helped her not only escape the darkness, but also adapt to a new way of living with happiness at its core

Climber Kelvyn James experienced an abusive childhood and, later, the murder of his mother by her husband. In the years since, he found a way out of the darkness. Here is his story.

Since the death of her partner, Rayya, in 2018, Elizabeth Gilbert has been on an extraordinary journey with grief and addiction. In her new memoir, she spares no-one, least of all herself, as she tells Christobel Hastings