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Creative or quixotic? Frances Byrnes dared to turn ballet into broadcast radio. Speech radio is ‘bad at abstraction’, Frances Byrnes…
Spelling is definitely not Pooh’s forte, nor was it mine at four, nor at fourteen, nor at forty. Indeed, in…
Joanna Nadin speaks with George Miller about her life in politics and finding the extraordinary in the everyday. Joanna Nadin…
I can usually hold the first few words or line for an hour or two, but that’s all. Although I…
Poet Donny O’Rourke explores how the telephone connects him — with the past. The telephone is not always an instrument…
Kafka’s world was pitiless, full of humiliation and defeat, of inability to read the world outside, to move outside his…
Jan Marsh speaks with James McConnachie about biography, art history and the scholarly fringes. Jan Marsh speaks with James McConnachie…
By using words I can create the illusion of having power, and this sensation is an addictive substance. We are…
Thriller writer Helen Grant goes in search of the origins of one of M.R. James’s finest ghost stories. A series…
There are many parallels between my early love of acting and my love of writing. Early drafts are rather like…
Jennifer Potter speaks with George Miller about the John Tradescants and the cultural significance of the rose. Jennifer Potter speaks…
I remember writing my fifth novel with four children under five, between three-hour breastfeeds, lecturing and marking papers while they…
