07 Feb 2020: Sustainability campaigner Tony Juniper asks ‘What has Nature Ever Done for Us?’ in his new book and explains to Sonal Rupani that 100% of our economic development comes from what nature provides yet still, we take most of it for granted.

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07 Feb 2020: Henry Firth and Ian Theasby are the boys from Bosh! and they’re here to help everyone eat more plants. They’re the most popular vegans on YouTube, reaching more than half a billion people in their first year alone. They chat with us about how and why they gave up meat and what it means to live life on the veg.

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07 Feb 2020: Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock overcame a challenging childhood to pursue a career as a space scientist. She discusses the role that 'The Clangers' played in inspiring her to look to the skies as a very young child and everywhere that’s taken her since, including writing ‘Dr Maggie’s Grand Tour of the Solar System’.

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07 Feb 2020: Roma Agrawal is an award-winning structural engineer who builds really big things. She chats about why she promotes engineering careers to kids and about her first book, ‘Built'.

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08 Feb 2020: UAE astronauts Hazzaa al Mansouri and Sultan Al Neyadi chat about life on a space station and training with world-record breaking female NASA astronaut Christina Koch.

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07 Feb 2020: Harry Baker and Chris Read are 'Harry and Chris’ the UK’s favourite (if only?) Comedy-Rap-Jazz duo. Hear them chatting about pandas, robot wars, bullying and mathematics with Sonal Rupani.

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25 Jan 2020: It's a popularity contest this week as Shadi Moazami director and founder of MAIA Luxury Communications, and Tamreez Inam, bookstagrammer and LitFest Team member, discuss, compare and contrast two books connected by popularity and celebrity culture: The Kim Kardashian Principle by Jeetendr Sehdev and New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi and K-Pop by Fatima Bhutto.

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25 Jan 2020: Dubai-based journalist, bookworm and former editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar, Louise Nichol, tells us how she gets her reading fix as a busy mother of three, and what books she’s enjoyed recently, from Nadiya Hussain's raw and honest memoir Finding My Voice to Oliver Jeffers’ dazzling work as a children's author and illustrator, to an enigmatic, dangerous and fashion forward assassin in Luke Jennings’ pacey and racy Codename Villanelle series.

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25 Jan 2020: The controversial and - some might say ‘murderous’ - act that’s got the whole book world talking – it really divided our listeners on the show! And a big question about the value of historical artefacts and the stories objects from the past can tell us.

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18 Jan 2020: The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature announced a ground-breaking venture with Dubai Police and the Penal and Correctional Institutions to publish Tomorrow, I Will Fly, a book of essays written by men and women inmates in Dubai jails.

 

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