Last year, Lauren – who rose to fame as a teenager with the 1990s indie band Kenickie – took a break from presenting her BBC shows after being diagnosed with cancer. In November, she ...

where she formed the band Kenickie alongside her brother Pete and her friends Anne Marie Nixon and Emma Jackson. The band all adopted stage names, which is how she became Lauren Leverne. Laverne ...

Lauren Laverne explores the appeal of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, one of her favourite books and one that remains a cornerstone of children's literature. Show more Lauren Laverne ...