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Meet the Writers — 121 episodes
Sir Vince Cable and the changing global economic landscape
Louise Doughty and the letters that changed everything
Emma-Lee Moss and the icons of Cantopop
Simon Woodroffe on reinventing British dining
Kathy Lette on growing up, speaking out and ‘The Sisterhood Rules’
Nicholas Boggs and the legacy of James Baldwin
Chloe Aridjis on objects, projection and transformation
Raoul de Jong’s mystical journey into his Surinamese ancestry
Erica Wagner and the life of Washington Roebling
Victoria Bateman and the hidden economics of women
Ben Faccini on family, memory and fiction
Oliver Bullough on financial secrecy, corruption and global power
Anuradha Roy and life in the Himalayas
Leo Varadkar on power, identity and leaving politics
The winners of the 2026 Women’s Prize
Tim Wu and the future beyond big tech
Tayari Jones at the 2026 Hay Festival
Judy Blume on taboos, breaking barriers and leaving writing
Julia Franck on fiction, memoir and personal history
Oana Aristide on satire, space dreams and fiction
Megan Mulry and the Santa Fe International Literary Festival
Ece Temelkuran on exile, language and finding a new voice
Nicholas Thompson on leading change and running habits
Rachel Eliza Griffiths and the weight of memory
Catherine Carr and the complexities of sibling dynamics
Maria Semple on stoicism, rebellion and personal growth
Poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney on writing with joy
Margaret Busby on publishing, power and representation
Fatima Bhutto at the Daunt Books Festival 2026
Francis Spufford on faith, fantasy and the craft of fiction
Luka Ivan Jukic on the enduring significance of Central Europe
Karen Dobres and pitch politics
Tom Freston on media, reinvention and change
Maria Alyokhina on activism, Russia’s regime and hope for the motherland
Bora Chung on the rise of Korean literature
Andrey Kurkov on chronicling a nation at war
Damian Barr on Scottish art, memory and belonging
Alexander B Smalls on opera, food and African heritage
Steve Crawshaw and confronting global impunity
Mary L Trump and how power destroys a nation
EA Hanks and retracing family ties
Manni Coe on roots, ruins and reinvention
India Knight on finding Home
John Lloyd and ‘The Meaning of Liff’
Sir Michael Palin on his travels, decades-long career and finding laughter
Mitchell Kaplan, the founder of Miami Book Fair
Harlan Greene at the 2025 Charleston Literary Festival
The winner of the 2025 Booker Prize: David Szalay
Kiran Desai on loneliness, legacy and the curse of rewriting
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 winner: Helen Garner
Richard Armitage and the power of storytelling
Richard Lloyd Parry and the journeys within stories
Olivier Norek on courage, conflict and history
Sam Sussman on the possibility of family ties
Juhea Kim on stories woven from silence
Priyanka Mattoo on the search for home
Michael Wolff on chaos, power and America’s reckoning
R James Breiding on what small nations teach the world
Michelle de Kretser on literature and belonging
Iain Sinclair on London, literature and hidden journeys
Nick Berg on revolutions, exile and the stories that we inherit
Iris Wolff on weaving memory into words
Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan: Exiled voices on Russia
Karin Slaughter on banned books and the fight for truth
The women redefining literary festivals
Nick Harkaway and the legacy of Le Carré
Jean McNeil on bearing witness to a disappearing world
Guadalupe Nettel on human nature in fiction
C K Stead at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival
Karim Kattan on writing between languages and landscapes
Michael and Matariki Bennett at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival
Damian Le Bas on writing between worlds
Agustina Bazterrica at Hay Festival 2025
Esther Freud on family, fiction and healing
Damien Wilkins at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival
Eliza Reid on crafting her first mystery
Meike Ziervogel on her humanitarian and literary drive
The Winners of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction
Miranda Cowley Heller on what lies beneath art and memory
Ewan Morrison on AI and its side effects
Tiffany Watt Smith on female friendships
Jeremy Vine: Broadcasting and the stories that matter
Ahmed Alnaouq: the voices of Gaza beyond the headlines
Lynda La Plante and the art of crime writing
Jenny Mustard on writing literary fiction
AC Grayling and making peace in the culture wars
Rachel Shabi and the complexities of antisemitism
Stephen May’s reimagination of Victor Grayson
Natasha Brown on the effect of language
Abdulrazak Gurnah and Zanzibar’s multicultural history
Lauren Markham at the Lannan Literary Festival
Janet de Neefe’s cultural ventures in Bali
Tash Aw on writing the reality of Southeast Asia
Ram Murali at Galle Literary Festival 2025
Benjamin Moser at Jaipur Literature Festival 2025
Sandip Roy at the 2025 Kolkata Literary Meet
Angelo Tijssens: from the silver screen to the short novel
Maggie Mackellar: the healing power of nature
Caryl Phillips’s snapshot of the Windrush Generation
Charles Hecker: Russia’s zero-sum game
This year’s highlight: Zeinab Badawi
The women behind Charleston Literary Festival
Julie Taymor: the pride of writing for film and stage
Lindsey Hilsum’s world in poems
Namita Gokhale
2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024: Richard Flanagan
The musical adventures of Mike Batt
Yulia Mykytenko and her hope for Ukraine
Jan Gradvall’s ties with Abba
Gabriel Gatehouse
Peter Godwin
Lee Mylne
Evie Wyld
The Afghan women writers who witnessed the fall of Kabul
William Dalrymple
Imogen Sutton, Richard Williams and their ‘Adventures in Animation’
Rabih Alameddine
Sam Leith
Magda Szubanski AO
Nathan Thrall
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma