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Today's show features Helen Dunmore's final novel Birdcage Walk and her poetry collection Inside the Wave.  Our Toaster Challenge guest is journalist and broadcaster Olivia O'Leary, and we also review Stanley Plumley's The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth and Lamb.

Toaster Challenge choice: Eibhear Walshe, Kate O'Brien: A Writing Life

Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The Hare’s Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it.

Art work by Freya Sirr

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