Presenter Doug Johnstone is joined by Marianne Colbran, whose work explores how media presentations of crime and the police differ from reality. They discuss finding your voice in academic writing, the pressures of TV writers' rooms and how an unexpected stint as a magazine sex expert launched Marianne's writing career.

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Academic Pragya Agarwal joins host Sonia Faleiro on a deep dive into the Royal Literary Fund archives, using the recordings to reflect on her work drawing attention to the spaces where women have been rendered invisible, the role that science writing can play in combatting climate change and the inequalities embedded in the publishing industry.

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Ann Morgan is joined by Associate Editor of The Bookseller, critic, non-fiction author and regular Collected presenter Caroline Sanderson, whose new book Listen With Father has just hit the bookshop shelves. Together, they discuss programming literary festivals, finding a new way of writing about music and bereavement, and how books journalism has changed over the past 25 years.

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Award-winning poet Jonathan Edwards delves into the Royal Literary Fund's sound archives with host Julia Copus, using other writers' reflections to explore his views on the role of teachers, what happens when a poem really lives and why rejection hits writers so hard.

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Host Jonathan Tulloch is joined by short-story writer, playwright, poet, essayist, memoirist and cultural commentator Rosemary Jenkinson, who writes edgy work often based on people she meets in the pub, and has braved intimidating situations to record untold stories from the Northern Irish Troubles.

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Celebrated author Tessa Hadley, in conversation with presenter Caroline Sanderson, delves into the Royal Literary Fund's sound archives, using the recordings to reflect on the challenges of the writing life and her work spinning psychologically astute domestic dramas.

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Julia Copus is joined in the studio by Alex Wong, a literary critic and poet who writes without being able to visualise images.

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Internationally bestselling author Laura Barnett delves into the Royal Literary Fund's sound archives with presenter Ann Morgan, exploring writer's block, the perils and perks of publication day, and how swapping the city for the countryside affects writing.

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Presenter Doug Johnstone is joined in the studio by fellow crime writer Howard Linskey to chew the fat about the writing life and share his surprising, non-linear approach to storytelling.

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Edgar award-winner Deepa Anappara delves into the Royal Literary Fund archives with presenter Sonia Faleiro, and shares how she battled self-doubt, discrimination and grief on the journey to and through publication.

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