"HORROR UPON HORROR'S HEAD ACCUMULATES": War correspondents and sufferers from PTSD Ben Anderson and Ed Vulliamy talk about the enduring nightmare of shell shock and post-traumatic stress disorder with neuroscientist Shane O'Mara.

"IMMOBILITY IS GASOLINE FOR THE IMAGINATION": Sinead Gleeson talks about her remarkable memoir of resilience, Constellations, with Anne Enright.

FIDELITY AND REPRESENTATION IN STORY-TELLING: Hisham Matar (Anatomy of a Disappearance, The Return) and Christina Lamb (I am Malala, The Girl from Aleppo) talk with BBC journalist Kirsty Lang about constructing narratives from real-life events.

SEX, LIES AND THE GENERATION GAP: Agony-aunt Philippa Perry considers how searching for love, and staying sane, have changed with the advent of social media and shifting values.

Historian and passionate cultural commentator Simon Schama luxuriates in what he calls 'the performing tumble of language' with fellow writer William Dalrymple.

Welcome Prize winner Mark O'Connell talks about his extraordinary book Notes from an Apocalypse where he documents the strange word of 'preppers' and Doomsdayers, with journalist and curiosity-shop Misha Glenny

Sonali Deraniyagala - whose book Wave tells of experiencing her family being carried away to their deaths by the 2004 Tsunami which she survived - and Mary Cregan, whose graceful memoir The Scar chronicles a descent into depression - talk to neuroscientist Shane O'Mara about finding the resolve to live with personal trauma.

US scholar and author James Shapiro and Irish Times journalist Fintan O'Toole discuss the subversion of laughter - and everything else - in Shakespeare.

THE VULVA REVOLUTION: Lynn Enright (Vagina: A Re-education) and Naomi Wolf (Outrages: Sex, Cesnorship and the Criminalisation of Love) discusses sexual taboos, repression and the power of knowledge with BBC broadcaster Kirsty Lang.