222 Episodes

  1. Tiffany Watt Smith on female friendships

    Published: 5/25/2025
  2. Jeremy Vine: Broadcasting and the stories that matter

    Published: 5/18/2025
  3. Ahmed Alnaouq: the voices of Gaza beyond the headlines

    Published: 5/11/2025
  4. Lynda La Plante and the art of crime writing

    Published: 5/4/2025
  5.  Jenny Mustard on writing literary fiction

    Published: 4/27/2025
  6. AC Grayling and making peace in the culture wars

    Published: 4/20/2025
  7. Rachel Shabi and the complexities of antisemitism 

    Published: 4/13/2025
  8. Stephen May’s reimagination of Victor Grayson

    Published: 4/6/2025
  9. Natasha Brown on the effect of language

    Published: 3/30/2025
  10. Abdulrazak Gurnah and Zanzibar’s multicultural history

    Published: 3/23/2025
  11. Lauren Markham at the Lannan Literary Festival

    Published: 3/16/2025
  12. Janet de Neefe’s cultural ventures in Bali

    Published: 3/9/2025
  13. Tash Aw on writing the reality of Southeast Asia 

    Published: 3/2/2025
  14. Ram Murali at Galle Literary Festival 2025

    Published: 2/23/2025
  15. Benjamin Moser at Jaipur Literature Festival 2025

    Published: 2/16/2025
  16. Sandip Roy at the 2025 Kolkata Literary Meet

    Published: 2/9/2025
  17. Angelo Tijssens: from the silver screen to the short novel 

    Published: 2/2/2025
  18. Maggie Mackellar: the healing power of nature

    Published: 1/26/2025
  19. Caryl Phillips’s snapshot of the Windrush Generation

    Published: 1/19/2025
  20. Charles Hecker: Russia’s zero-sum game

    Published: 1/12/2025

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