Jonathan Tulloch shares his audio diary, in which we meet a cast of characters including a wasp, a sausage roll or four, and St Peter in the guise of a benign tobacconist. How will the story end?

Annette Kobak speaks with Carole Angier about her biography of Isabelle Eberhardt, her memoir of her father and his wartime experiences, and the important role of parallel travels in the structure of her books.

Helena Attlee tells George Miller about her unconventional start as a garden writer and her long-standing love affair with Italy.

William Palmer explains the importance of craft, skill and empathy in successful fiction, and examines where novice writers often go wrong.

John Siddique introduces the 'laboratory' of his notebook’s pages, and explains how keeping a journal can lead to 'a more conscious and loving way to live'.

Marcelle Bernstein speaks with Carole Angier about her novels, her love of research, the connection between fiction and non-fiction writing and her relish for the instinctive.

Harriet Castor speaks with Julia Copus about engaging young readers with history, and why she wanted to climb inside the head of Henry VIII.

Nicholas Murray talks with George Miller about his book on the British poets of the first world war, and his own career as a poet, including his most recent collection of animal poems.

Caitlin Davies confronts every writer’s dilemma in her audio diary: how, in a busy week, she can find enough time to write?

This episode also features two recent highlights from the Vox section of our website.

Marcelle Bernstein speaks with Carole Angier about the golden era of newspaper interviewing, her early career in journalism and her experiences in researching her first book Nuns.

Nicholas Murray is the author of several biographies, and it is literary biography – and in particular his acclaimed life of Huxley – that he discusses here with George Miller.