1 POP culture in childhood I HAD a very happy childhood. I felt completely loved. We had parents that listened to us and always supported our interests. Obviously they controlled my cultural life as a child, and we would be taken to Dundee Rep, the Byre Theatre, The McManus, and the Edinburgh Festival. I didn’t realise it was sowing the seeds for what I would do with my life. I’m grateful to be have been brought up in a house that liked culture, travel, reading and really liked conversation and arguing about ideas. We were brought up to have opinions.