Joel Willans reads two stories from his book Spellbound: Stories of Women's Magic Over Men, accomponanied by music from The Quiet Calls. This podcast was recorded at the Spellbound book launch at Luckan, a cultural centre in Helsinki. The occasional rumble is the sound of a tram rolling by. (27:50)

A conversation with Steve McKevitt about Everything Now. Steve's drink of choice is Deuchars IPA. (32:52)

After being caught in flagrante in a library storeroom, a woman loses her job and lover and is left staring at her life inside a stale marriage, with a husband busy digging a hole in the garden in search of ruins. Story by Dave Pescod. Read by Anne Marie Hughes. Music by Jack Pescod. (13.20)

This poetry podcast brings together a selection of tracks from Mark Gwynne Jones’ debut CD Psychicbread. (32:53)

A track from Mark Gwynne Jones and The Psychicbread's new album Lyric in Limestone. Recorded live on Bleaklow, in the High Peak.

Michael Nath reads from his novel La Rochelle. Mark goes out shooting in the Devon countryside with Frank Whitby and the regulars from the Henry IVth, an activity he declares to be ‘eminently better than thinking’. (10:15)

Short Story. When an older man steals a cinnabar button off a vulnerable young singer’s coat, a strange, ephemeral alliance is formed. She follows him down Kentish Town Road to a house filled with colour and the possibility of change. From Wonderwall. Read by the author.

Short story by Michael Nath. Bradley cloaks his life in mystery and is highly sensitive to his own significance. This delightful character's eccentric behaviour is met with varying degrees of tolerance and appreciation from his colleagues. From Wonderwall. Read by the author.