Bethan Roberts speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about her family tradition of oral storytelling, becoming a novelist after abandoning literary theory, and accidentally writing a novel about Elvis.

Caroline Sanderson revisits her childhood home for the first time in five decades, to compare memory with reality.

Paul Dodgson takes us to Hythe on the south coast of Kent, drawn back to a place he was once desperate to escape.

Clare Chambers explains why the apparently prosaic location of the south-east London suburbs has been such a source of inspiration in her work.

Rebecca Goss and our host Julia Copus discuss two classic poems, 'Bath' by Amy Lowell and 'Sea Love' by Charlotte Mew, in another instalment of our special ‘Poetry Break’ series.

Laura Barnett unpacks the myth that writing needs lots of time, and explores the focusing effect that external demands can have on the creative process.

Ros Schwartz explores recent initiatives, by the community of translators and by committed independent publishers, that have transformed the publication of literature in translation.

Ben Musgrave speaks with Ann Morgan about writing across cultures, creating drama over Zoom, the value of writing groups and the importance of trusting yourself.

Babs Horton takes us to Tredegar, a small town in the Welsh Valleys, ravaged by coal and politics.

Brian Clegg re-haunts the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, where the ghosts of modern physics collect.

Tamar Yellin explains the influence of the moorland landscape of Bronte Country on her life and work.

Rhiannon Tise speaks with Ann Morgan about collaborating with actors, producers and the listener, adapting classic novels for radio, being drawn to the dark edges and keeping the essence of a project.

In the third instalment of 'My Genre’s Status', we speak with RLF writers who struggle against being pigeonholed, and consider issues such as the way different countries categorise literature, the challenges of hybrid forms and the need to keep pushing the boundaries.

Bethan Roberts explores the varying ways in which truth has transmuted into fiction in her novels, the different nature of truth in fiction versus truth in historical research, and how far she’s prepared to go when inhabiting characters who are also real people.

Lawrence Sail considers the balance between recognising things and discovering them, as experienced during the creative writing process, particularly in poetry.

Karl Whitney recalls the unlovely Central Motorway area of Newcastle upon Tyne, and how he found himself at home there.

Zoë Howe takes us to Canvey Island in the Thames Estuary, low-lying outpost of a cockney diaspora.