A recording of a unique event at the National Library of Scotland in February 2020.

The Lost Poets are:

Ron Butlin, Andrew Greig, Liz Lochhead, Brian McCabe and James Hutcheson, along with his band The Great Deep.

In our first episode on location, Vikki Reilly and Kristian Kerr talk to a selection of crime writers at the Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival, held in Stirling in Septemeber 2018. Featuring (in order of appearance) Michael Malone, James Oswald (6:00), Charlie McGarry (16:25), Denzil Meyrick & Douglas Skelton (24:45), Graeme Macrae Burnet & Simone Buchholz (35:20), Kaite Welsh (46:08), and Karen Robinson of the Times and Sunday Times Crime Club (49:25). Our thanks to all the authors who took part, to Fiona Brownlee, and all who make Bloody Scotland a truly special event on Scotland's literary calendar.

In this episode Vikki Reilly and Kristian Kerr talk the smash hit novel of 2017-2018, Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. They are joined by novelist Isla Dewar to talk about her new novel, It Takes One to Know One.

Alexander McCall Smith joins us at the Hay Literary Festival to talk about global sensation, the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this summer. The conversation includes news of his forthcoming titles: the next Precious Ramotswe book, which sees her making a foray into politics; and an anthology of Scottish poetry.

In this episode Vikki Reilly and Kristian Kerr of Polygon Books talk Ron Butlin's newly reissued 1987 novel, 'The Sound of My Voice'. The author himself joins to to tell us about its composition, about writing poetry to order, writing for children, and the many types of Scottish rain. The poems Ron reads are from his collection 'The Magicians of Scotland' (Polygon) available in print and eBook with audio formats.

In this episode VIkki Relly and Kristian Kerr explore Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. With 2018 seeing the continuing publication of a complete set of the novels Muriel Spark, they speak with Candia McWilliam about Spark's second novel, Robinson.

Vikki Reilly and Kristian Kerr of Birlinn Ltd discuss Muriel Spark's first novel, 'The Comforters', before talking to author Alan Taylor about his new book, 'Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark'.

Join Vikki Reilly and Kristian Kerr for a discussion of Sick Heart River, John Buchan's final, haunting novel. They also talk to Robert J Harris, author of a new Richard Hannay novel, The Thirty One Kings, just published by Polygon.

This episode, Vikki Reilly and Kristian Kerr talk Scottish crime writing with a discussion of Ian Rankin's Black and Blue and a reading from the latest book in Denzil Meyrick's Argyll-set DCI Daley series, One Last Dram Before Midnight

In this episode of a regular podcast on Scottish Literature Vikki Reilly and Kristian Kerr of Birlinn Ltd talk Emma Tennant's Two Women of London, a 1989 retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. They talk Stevenson with Kevin MacNeil about his novel, A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde and his new RLS anthology, a selection planned by Jean Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares but hitherto unpublished.