Meet the Writers

Want to know more about the authors behind your favourite books? Tune in to discover the methods of – and inspiration behind – some of the world’s most exciting writers. Every Saturday, Georgina Godwin hosts an in-depth discussion with the person behind the prose.

AC Grayling and making peace in the culture wars
Apr 20, 2025 – 36:52
Rachel Shabi and the complexities of antisemitism
Apr 13, 2025 – 25:57
Stephen May’s reimagination of Victor Grayson
Apr 6, 2025 – 28:22
Natasha Brown on the effect of language
Mar 30, 2025 – 31:15
Abdulrazak Gurnah and Zanzibar’s multicultural history
Mar 23, 2025 – 28:14
Lauren Markham at the Lannan Literary Festival
Mar 16, 2025 – 26:26
Janet de Neefe’s cultural ventures in Bali
Mar 9, 2025 – 30:38
Tash Aw on writing the reality of Southeast Asia
Mar 2, 2025 – 28:34
Ram Murali at Galle Literary Festival 2025
Feb 23, 2025 – 27:26
Benjamin Moser at Jaipur Literature Festival 2025
Feb 16, 2025 – 28:02
Sandip Roy at the 2025 Kolkata Literary Meet
Feb 9, 2025 – 29:39
Angelo Tijssens: from the silver screen to the short novel
Feb 2, 2025 – 27:36
Maggie Mackellar: the healing power of nature
Jan 26, 2025 – 27:16
Caryl Phillips’s snapshot of the Windrush Generation
Jan 19, 2025 – 32:27
Charles Hecker: Russia’s zero-sum game
Jan 12, 2025 – 30:20
This year’s highlight: Zeinab Badawi
Jan 5, 2025 – 27:28
The women behind Charleston Literary Festival
Dec 29, 2024 – 31:59
Julie Taymor: the pride of writing for film and stage
Dec 22, 2024 – 36:13
Lindsey Hilsum’s world in poems
Dec 15, 2024 – 29:01
Namita Gokhale
Dec 8, 2024 – 28:42
2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024: Richard Flanagan
Dec 1, 2024 – 37:23
The musical adventures of Mike Batt
Nov 24, 2024 – 30:09
Yulia Mykytenko and her hope for Ukraine
Nov 17, 2024 – 30:22
Jan Gradvall’s ties with Abba
Nov 10, 2024 – 33:28
Gabriel Gatehouse
Nov 3, 2024 – 29:26
Peter Godwin
Oct 27, 2024 – 29:39
Lee Mylne
Oct 20, 2024 – 27:49
Evie Wyld
Oct 13, 2024 – 28:55
The Afghan women writers who witnessed the fall of Kabul
Oct 6, 2024 – 27:32
William Dalrymple
Sep 29, 2024 – 31:03
Imogen Sutton, Richard Williams and their ‘Adventures in Animation’
Sep 22, 2024 – 30:03
Rabih Alameddine
Sep 15, 2024 – 29:10
Sam Leith
Sep 8, 2024 – 28:31
Magda Szubanski AO
Sep 1, 2024 – 27:54
Nathan Thrall
Aug 25, 2024 – 30:36
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Aug 18, 2024 – 21:36
Elif Shafak
Aug 11, 2024 – 29:25
John Brown, Australian politician
Aug 4, 2024 – 31:12
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch
Jul 28, 2024 – 26:58
Juan M Lavista Ferres on AI for Good
Jul 21, 2024 – 29:48
Tiffany Murray’s rock’n’roll childhood
Jul 14, 2024 – 28:44
Christopher Isherwood, ‘Inside Out’, with Katherine Bucknell
Jul 7, 2024 – 28:06
UK general election special with Alun Evans
Jun 30, 2024 – 29:10
Anders Lustgarten
Jun 23, 2024 – 25:38
Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 winner
Jun 16, 2024 – 27:15
Sasha Salzmann
Jun 9, 2024 – 29:40
Kaliane Bradley
Jun 2, 2024 – 26:37
International Booker Prize 2024 winner
May 26, 2024 – 28:21
Andrew O’Hagan
May 19, 2024 – 29:57
AK Blakemore
May 12, 2024 – 27:22

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