On writing, with Sally Gardner
Sally Gardner has had a long career of writing for children, for adults, and for everyone between. She chats to Hannah about her latest novel, The Bride Stone, growing up in London's Gray's Inn and ab...
18 Heinä 202522min
Rated or Dated: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Are you ready for our close ups? Maybe not, but tuck in anyway as we watch Gloria Swanson's glorious swansong in Billy Wilder's dark comedy about lost fame, madness and how to arrange a funeral for a ...
16 Heinä 202526min
Jean McNeil's wild encounters
Adventurer, award-winning travel writer and Director of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, Jean McNeil knows a lot about the world and our ever-more threadbare connection to it. She ...
15 Heinä 202526min
Laura Abbott on Lost Mothers
During her career as a midwife, Dr Laura Abbott – now an associate professor in research at the University of Hertfordshire – became interested in the plight of women who gave birth in prison, or were...
14 Heinä 202527min
Karen Pirie, TV's most ordinary detective
The second series of crime drama Karen Pirie is about to arrive, so Hannah grabbed some time with its star Lauren Lyle to talk about why Karen's not like other detectives, but a lot like most women he...
11 Heinä 202524min
Rated or Dated: Back to the Future (1985)
Starring Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd and a genuinely beautiful school building, Robert Zemeckis’s time travel comedy blockbuster continues to be a cultural touchstone. At the time, it dazzled at ...
9 Heinä 202533min
Body talk with Rose Keating
Oddbody is Rose Keating’s debut short story collection, an anthology of bold and unsettling tales inspired by her love of horror – and the genre's intersection with the female experience. In this epis...
7 Heinä 202526min
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Esther Freud’s sister (and other love[r]s)
Author Esther Freud first shot to fame with her debut novel, Hideous Kinky, back in 1992. Her tenth novel, My Sister and Other Lovers, reunites readers with sisters Lucy and Bea, and astutely captures...
4 Heinä 202526min
