The author of Read Yourself Happy joins host Ann Morgan to discuss the National Year of Reading and how spending time with books can help ease anxiety, as well as her new novel, All Grown Up, a modern-day retelling of Little Women. In addition, the conversation touches on Daisy's journey to sobriety, the influence of the sea on the writing process, and managing the requirement for authors to market themselves on social media.

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In this special episode to mark the centenary of Winnie-the-Pooh, comic strip artist and author Sally Kindberg and host Jonathan Tulloch explore the legacy of AA Milne, and discuss Kindberg's experiences as an accidental travel journalist, a reluctant mudlarker, and the curator of a museum of dust.

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Daniel Hahn discusses his latest book on translating Shakespeare, explains why books should be labelled if they're translated by AI and considers whether there's really such a thing as translator's block.

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Music journalist, rock biographer and sports writer John Aizlewood shares his insights into having tea with Peter Gabriel, travelling on Texas' tour bus and spending a year attending every game played by league one football club Stevenage accompanied by his teenage son.

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In this special interview, cult author and RLF beneficiary Hanif Kureishi tells Paul Dodgson about working with David Bowie, why he has given up listening to music except for one particular song, and how he has rebuilt his writing process after the fall that left him paralysed in 2022.

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The Cairo-born scriptwriter joins host Ann Morgan to explore her accidental route into writing, what it means to speak English wrong, the challenges and opportunities of being a writer of migrant heritage and how she has blended Egypt and Scotland in her work.

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The winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry joins host Julia Copus to discuss why he hardly reads novels, shifting literary fashions, building poems from snippets and growing up in a family of actors.

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The East Anglian writer tells Jonathan Tulloch what editing taught her about rejection and why ghosting is so damaging for writers. She also discusses investigating asbestos and hate speech, and discovering the spectres of places that used to exist through archival research.

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Pat Cumper, the celebrated former artistic director of Talawa Theatre Company talks to fellow playwright Juliet Gilkes Romero about the survival of political theatre, her experience of racism at Cambridge University in the 1970s, adapting work by Toni Morrison and what it means to be in the writing zone.

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Emma John, chronicler of cricket, bluegrass music and singlehood, talks to presenter Paul Dodgson about creating a writing panic room, writing memoirs by accident and when it is acceptable to tweak facts in non-fiction.

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