Why would a writer put themselves into the background? Wendy Jones has written many kinds of books - fiction, and for children - but in this episode we focus on how and why she likes to tell people's stories in their own words. She did this in her biography of Grayson Perry, and in The Sex Lives Of English Women.  In this conversation, we talk about what drew her to use this technique, and how she actually goes about it - the hard work, like the figure of the writer, can sometimes seem invisible. We also talk about Studs Terkel, the American radio broadcaster and pioneer of oral history, who inspired Wendy. 

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