Candice Pires

From pop songs to warm pools, Candice Pires hears six very different accounts of women’s experience in labour

In an extreme life-or-death situation, would you be able to hold your nerve?

The wedding day of Michelle Vestal and Bob Kitcheon marked 84 days that she has been clean from crack cocaine. “I would never have done it if it wasn’t for him,” she said

Photographer Ming Smith has been making pioneering work since the 1970s. Finally she is receiving the acclaim she deserves

The actor, 68, on agnosticism, depression and having ‘the finest body of work of any American actor’

The writer, 75, on scary parties, dystopian fiction and being short

The actor, 90, on being married to someone half his age, growing up during the Great Depression and hoping to live to be 100

In a political climate where most adults are inert with despair, a growing number of teenagers are responding with action.

"My brother had withdrawn his confession and my parents testified that at the time of the murder he was at home with them. I was sentenced to life"

My mother named me Bootsy. My birth name is William Earl Collins. I asked her why and she just said, “Because you looked like a Bootsy.” I left it at that.

'I was told she was six months old, had come from a breeder and wouldn’t grow any bigger than a very large cat'

The 73-year-old designer and campaigner on what drives her, the last time she cried and why she eats so much lettuce.

The musician and activist, 51, on veganism, loneliness, the allure of fame and being boringly not gay

Antarctic scientists, avalanche specialists, Alaskan farmers and an industrial deep-freeze manager… Candice Pires talks to five people who have to endure extreme cold to do their job.

The actor, 45, reflects on why women of colour are underpaid in Hollywood, being crotchety in public and why she was able to savour finding fame later in life