262 Episodes

  1. Tiffany Watt Smith on female friendships

    Published: 25/05/2025
  2. Jeremy Vine: Broadcasting and the stories that matter

    Published: 18/05/2025
  3. Ahmed Alnaouq: the voices of Gaza beyond the headlines

    Published: 11/05/2025
  4. Lynda La Plante and the art of crime writing

    Published: 04/05/2025
  5.  Jenny Mustard on writing literary fiction

    Published: 27/04/2025
  6. AC Grayling and making peace in the culture wars

    Published: 20/04/2025
  7. Rachel Shabi and the complexities of antisemitism 

    Published: 13/04/2025
  8. Stephen May’s reimagination of Victor Grayson

    Published: 06/04/2025
  9. Natasha Brown on the effect of language

    Published: 30/03/2025
  10. Abdulrazak Gurnah and Zanzibar’s multicultural history

    Published: 23/03/2025
  11. Lauren Markham at the Lannan Literary Festival

    Published: 16/03/2025
  12. Janet de Neefe’s cultural ventures in Bali

    Published: 09/03/2025
  13. Tash Aw on writing the reality of Southeast Asia 

    Published: 02/03/2025
  14. Ram Murali at Galle Literary Festival 2025

    Published: 23/02/2025
  15. Benjamin Moser at Jaipur Literature Festival 2025

    Published: 16/02/2025
  16. Sandip Roy at the 2025 Kolkata Literary Meet

    Published: 09/02/2025
  17. Angelo Tijssens: from the silver screen to the short novel 

    Published: 02/02/2025
  18. Maggie Mackellar: the healing power of nature

    Published: 26/01/2025
  19. Caryl Phillips’s snapshot of the Windrush Generation

    Published: 19/01/2025
  20. Charles Hecker: Russia’s zero-sum game

    Published: 12/01/2025

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