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Peter Forbes & Stephen Wakelam

Peter Forbes talks us through a word-precise career, and Stephen Wakelam survives changing fashions in TV drama. Peter Forbes talks…
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Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw speaks with Frances Byrnes about being unexpectedly driven to write by her own severe emotions. Fiona Shaw tells…
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Hugh Thomson, part 1

Hugh Thomson speaks with George Miller about travel writing and the fascinations of Peru. Hugh Thomson explains how he started…
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Brian McAvera

Brian McAvera’s audio diary tours us through Bordeaux and the serendipity of field research. Brian McAvera takes us to Bordeaux,…
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Staples Not Allowed

Jane Corry reflects on her time ‘inside’, as writer-in-residence at a high-security prison. Prison changes you, it is said. It…
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Red Tallinn

Ian Thomson sails to Estonia in search of his mother’s Soviet childhood. Ian Thomson’s mother and her best friend both…
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Resuscitating The Zombies

Rupert Christiansen picks through literary classics that narrowly avoided being consigned to the living death of non-publication. Every writer has…
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Where Did The Good Graffiti Go?

Chris Simms mourns a vanishing form of public writing. ‘Sharp comments in everyday settings’ is how Chris Simms defines graffiti.…
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Mary Colson – Letter To My Younger Self

There’s no one around to practice Eurovision dance routines with, or to play Monopoly. You watched ‘Moonraker’ on VHS yesterday.
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Jon Mayhew – Why I Write

The next person who gave me permission to write was my best friend. We would swap sword and sorcery books…
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Jane Robins – How I Write

I will edit and re-edit for a few hours and only then move on to the blank screen, the next…
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Dipo Agboluaje – Why I Write

I verbalise their words aloud. I copy their physical mannerisms, and re-enact crucial scenes in the ‘You talking to me?’…
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