All episodes

Annelise Gray - Peril in Imperial Rome

Laura Wood - standing up for rebels

Maz Evans - watch out Bond, there's a new spy on the block

Hannah Gold - The Last Bear

Neal Shusterman - Game Changer

Tom Percival - making a difference

James Carter Weird, Wild and Wonderful

Garry Parsons - reflecting family life in all its diversity

Sita Bramachari - a writer's secrets set sail

Adam Baron - This Wonderful Thing

Helen Rutter - The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh

Liz Kessler talks about When the World Was Ours

Christopher Edge - Space Oddity: the influence of Close Encounters and Bowie

Lindsay Galvin on finding the perfect place for dragons

Professor Hakim Adi - on the history of African and Caribbean Communities in Britain

Armin Greder - creating books about the way the world is, not the way it should be.

Steve Cole - publishing Doctor Who

Chris Wormell - on illustrating Northern Lights

Lucy Strange - The Ghost of Gosswater

Chris Van Allsburg - a journey from sculpture to illustration

A M Dassu - a Syrian story

Matt Goodfellow - Bright Bursts of Colour

Ross Montgomery - The Midnight Guardians

Sally Nicholls talks about The Silent Stars Go By

Catherine Bruton - Dickens for the 21st Century

Catherine Fisher - Clockwork Crows and Midnight Swans

Manjeet Mann - Run Rebel

Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett -challenging gendered fairy tales

Benjamin Zephaniah - Windrush Child

David Long - the history of machines or human stories?

Alex Wheatle - Cane Warriors

Christopher Lloyd - why publish a print based encyclopedia in the digital age?

Robin Scott-Elliot - The Acrobats of Agra

Amy Wilson - frost, faeries and missing fathers

Finbar Hawkins - Witch

Nicola Davies and Cathy Fisher - a perfect partnership

Tom Palmer - After the War

Tania Unsworth - entranced by tigers

Dom Conlon speaking of hares and the moon

Eve McDonnell - mudlarking leads to Elsetime

Julia Gray- inspired by Ada Lovelace

Thomas Harding - The House by the Lake

Jasbinder Bilan - an alternative Secret Garden

Anna Fargher inspired by family history

Joseph Coelho - The Girl Who Became a Tree

Lucy Cuthew - Blood Moon

Julia Green - The Children of Swallow Fell

Elen Caldecott - The Short Knife

Sam Hutchinson on Critical Literacy publications

Patrick Skipworth - exploring borrowed words

Patrick Ness - Burn

Beverley Birch - the Song Beneath

David Wiesner - wordless wizard

Elizabeth Laird - writing the Middle East

Cerrie Burnell - freedom on the ice

Vashti Hardy - expert world builder

Anna James - book wanderer

Michael Rosen talks about The Missing

Peter Bunzl bringing Cogheart to a close

Jenny McLachlan - portal to The Land of Roar

Ross Welford - the magic of writing science fiction

Katharine Orton - inspired by frozen worlds

Tim Marshall - geopolitics for children

Marcus Sedgwick - Snowflake AZ

Rose Robbins - a voice for autisim

Kwame Alexander - choosing who you want to be

Piers Torday - inpsired by C S Lewis

Chitra Soundar - rooted in Indian folklore

Sue Cheung - Chinglish

Chris Vick - inspired by the sea

Nadine Wild-Palmer - The Tunnels Below

Andy Stanton - a seriously funny interview

David McKee - a life in illustration

Dan Smith - the Vikings are coming

Dean Atta - The Black Flamingo

Zanib Mian - introducing the world of Omar

Rebecca Stevens - Lily and the Rockets

Abi Elphinstone - Rumblestar

Kirsty Applebaum - The Middler

Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola - Look Up!

Christopher Edge experiment with time

Michael Rosen on reading classic books

Michelle Harrison - A Pinch of Magic

Gill Lewis - The Closest Thing to Flying

Laura Carlin - the way of the artist

Frank Cottrell-Boyce on Reading Aloud

Jessica Love - Julian is a Mermaid

Jewell Parker Rhodes - Ghost Boys

Janina Ramirez - unravelling Viking mysteries

Rob Biddulph - an eye for design

Philip Reeve - fascination with trains.

Dianne Hofmeyr - writing The Glassmaker's Daughter

Benji Davies - the animator in the illustrator

Karl Nova - from Hip Hop to Poetry

David Litchfield - making picturebooks.

Gareth P Jones - hitting the funny bone

Yuval Zommer - illustrating the natural world

Rachel Rooney - A Kid in My Class

Jason Reynolds - Long Way Down

Jane Ray - illustrating The Glassmaker's Daughter