Antonia Lloyd-Jones in conversation with Daniel Hahn: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator of Polish literature including Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and Witold Gombrowicz’s The Possessed, speaks to Daniel Hahn, translator of Portuguese, Spanish and French literature and author of Catching Fire: A Translation Diary, about her work to date, including the reasons why she started learning Polish, the dynamism of the translator’s role and the necessity of producing a text that is ‘alive’ in translation. Recorded at Young Space in September 2023. Edited by Frankie Wells. Music composed by Kwes Darko.

Kate Briggs in conversation with Jennifer Hodgson: Writer and translator Kate Briggs, author of This Little Art and The Long Form, speaks to Jennifer Hodgson, writer, critic and editor of Ann Quin’s The Unmapped Country, about her work, touching on the generative potential of translation, the possibilities and constraints of third-person narration and the novel as a collective production. Recorded at Young Space in April 2023. Edited by Frankie Wells. Music composed by Kwes Darko.

Brian Dillon in conversation with Chris Power: Critic and essayist Brian Dillon, author of Essayism, In the Dark Room, Suppose a Sentence and Affinities, speaks to Chris Power, author of A Lonely Man, about his writing to date, including the influence and use of the image in his work, his attachment to the fragment and the ‘mere’, and the challenge of writing attentively about a specific thing, whether a sentence or an object. Recorded at Young Space in February 2023. Edited by Frankie Wells. Music composed by Kwes Darko.