20/04/2019: Richard Feynman’s letter to his late wife, the intercepted appeal from Gandhi to Hitler to stop WWII, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s honest feedback to an aspiring writer: all excellent letters, but which is better and why? What makes a good letter in the first place? Thomas Billinghurst, Hananah Zaheer and Rachel Hamilton go head to head in this week’s Book Off to debate which of the letters they have brought to defend is the best, and why we should care about them in a convenient world of gifs and email in the first place.

20/04/2019: This week’s recommendations courtesy of content writer and bookworm Fiona Du Vivier are all  entertaining fiction reads that makes you think: Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman, The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion, and a suggestion for anyone who likes their books to feature a bit of deadly obsession.

20/04/2019: Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters and every night, he read ten of them before going to bed. Tom Billinghurst reviews To Obama: With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair by Jeanne Marie Laskas which describes the day-to-day of the Office of Presidential Correspondence and how it captured the voice of a nation.

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20/04/2019: In Book News this week we look at stories that address these questions: does reading work for rehabilitation purposes? How does a book go viral? What bookish things can I see and do in the coming weeks? And an example of a creative book launch idea that didn’t go quite as planned...

20/04/2019: In honour of the National Letter Writing Month, we thought Return to Sender by Elvis Presley would be the perfect soundtrack to finish off the show!

13/04/2019: How does literary agenting work in the UAE? Ipshita Sharma has worked in the book industry in the Arab World for 10 years, and tells us about Literary Sapiens, the literary agency she’s helping to set up. If you want to know a bit more about who to approach about your manuscript and what the agency is looking for – have a listen.

13/04/2019: A Jedi and a Klingon are star-crossed lovers, Cathy and Heathcliff are online gaming, and a cheerleader goes to a comic con. In honour of Middle East Film and Comic Con, Ayesha Khan reviews Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd, featuring stories written by bestselling YA authors like Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, John Green, David Levithan and more!

13/04/2019: This week on Soundtrack we tell you about a song that topped the UK chart in 1990 with an Abu Dhabi literary connection. It won a BAFTA for best video in 1991, and a member of the band was actually with us in the studio!

13/04/2019: Curtis Jobling, designer of hit children’s television show Bob the Builder, tells us about his upcoming illustration event with Sarah McIntyre at Abu Dhabi Book Fair, vampires, silliness and adapting children’s books to television.

13/04/2019: Alex Broun, facilitator of the cultural programme at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, tells us what we have to look forward to at this year’s exhibition. He shares some of the highlights that you shouldn’t miss like YA author Ali Sparkes, historian Eugene Rogan, father of Malala, Ziauddin Yousafzai, children’s writer Sarah McIntyre, author of A Long Way Home Saroo Brierley and more.