08/09/18: American punk rock band the Ramones provides the literary soundtrack today, this time as the inspiration for a piece of literature and not the other way around!

08/09/18: So many books, so little time! Sometimes it’s hard to decide what to add next to your bookshelf so we asked two listeners to join the show and recommend a stack of fiction and non-fiction titles, from the life-changing to the purely unputdownable, and from a dystopian boarding school tale to a hidden tribe of superathletes, there’s a book here for everyone.

08/09/18: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than We Think is a hugely popular non-fiction book by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund, and Dubai-based editor, journalist and lecturer at Middlesex University in journalism and media studies joined the show to share his thoughts on it.

08/09/18: From a 50s housewife who’s also an assassin to social commentary and an Avengers vs. X-Men showdown, have a listen to Ayesha Khan discuss her favourite comics and graphic novels.

08/09/18: The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson is a beautiful retelling of the Baba Yaga myth, and young reviewers Eleftheria and Shivani had a lot to say about it.

08/09/18: So many books, so little time! Sometimes it’s hard to decide what to add next to your bookshelf so we asked two listeners to join the show and recommend a stack of fiction and non-fiction titles, from the life-changing to the purely unputdownable, and from a dystopian boarding school tale to a hidden tribe of superathletes, there’s a book here for everyone.

01/09/18: British Indie pop band Bastille provides this week’s literary soundtrack inspired by one of Shakespeare’s sonnets.

01/09/18: Ruby Liberty Flynn reads an excerpt from her entry to the Oxford University Press Story Writing Competition held annually by the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature for school and university students. She won first place in the Under 11 category with her story ‘Stolen Memories’.

01/09/18: Literary enthusiast and Managing Director of The Tribe, Rob Mitchell, takes a look at The President is Missing by James Patterson and Bill Clinton, a political thriller and the first novel co-authored by the former US president. We also discuss author collaborations in general - when do they further a narrative and when are they just a gimmick?

01/09/18: During the Big Question, Jonathan Siklos gives a review of Human Errors by Nathan H. Lents and goes through the informative tour of humans’ four billion yearlong evolutionary saga, “for our mutations are, in their own way, testaments to our species’ greatness”.