In one of a series of conversation on literature, film, brain function, historiography, hagiography and memoirs, Jay Ackroyd talks with Maria Dahvana Headley about fact & fiction in journalism & literature.

Author of the  historical fantasy novel, Queen of Kings,. Headley is an American novelist, memoirist, and playwright.  We discuss the nature of narrative and story-telling in the writiing spectrum ranging from factual journailism to complete fantasy, like the Game of Thrones