Episode 1, 02/04/2026

The Intellectuals Podcast is presented by Kate North and Dan Anthony. In this episode Kate and Dan discuss Australian writer Helen Garner’s How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2025.  Kate and Dan also speak to winner of the Footnote X Counterpoints Writing Prize 2023-24, Italian Palestinian writer Sabrin Hasbun about her memoir Crossing and novelist Anthony Cartwright reports from Dudley about trams.This podcast is produced with technical support from Cardiff Metropolitan University, for which Kate and Dan are most grateful.Helen Garner’s How the End a Story: Collected Diarieshttps://www.amazon.co.uk/How-End-Story-Collected-Diaries/dp/1399606743Sabrin Hasbun:https://sabrinhasbun.com/https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/crossing-a-love-story-between-italy-and-palestine-sabrin-hasbun/97e02aed8a93250a?ean=9781804441527&next=t&next=t&affiliate=15415Anthony Cartwright:https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/AnthonyCartwrightYou can contact the show on [email protected]