MATTER - Max Porter - GHOST
Max Porter worked as a bookseller at Daunt Books and was later editorial director of Granta and Portobello Books. In 2015, he published his first novel, Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, which won sev...
2 Apr 202413min
MATTER - Hayley Campbell - FLESH
Hayley Campbell is an author, broadcaster, and journalist. Her work has appeared in WIRED, The Guardian, New Statesman, Empire, GQ, and more. Her books include All the Living and the Dead and The Art ...
2 Apr 202411min
MATTER - Peter Apps - FIRE
"The plastic bonding the metals together is polyethylene. It is literally solid petrol and will burn like it. This is what was starting to happen at Grenfell Tower." Peter Apps is an award-winning jo...
2 Apr 202411min
MATTER - Liz Berry And Zaffar Kunial - ENGLAND
"In the owl-light, / when loneliness shines / through your bones like a bare bulb." Liz Berry is an award-winning poet from the Black Country and the author of The Patron Saint of Schoolgirls, Black...
2 Apr 202419min
MATTER - Tim Dee - DUST
"In spring things come together, blood flows into the heart and away from the heart, swallow appear and swallows vanish." Tim Dee was born in Liverpool in 1961. He has worked as a BBC radio producer...
2 Apr 202413min
MATTER - Gavin Francis - BODY
Gavin Francis is a GP, and the author of True North and Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins, which won the Scottish Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and...
2 Apr 202413min
MATTER - Sam Guglani - BLUE
Dr Sam Guglani is a Consultant Oncologist in Cheltenham, specialising in the management of lung and brain tumours. He has Masters degrees in Ethics and Creative Writing. He is director of Medicine Unb...
2 Apr 20244min
MATTER - Lucy Winkett - ASH
"God is with humanity. Intertwined in all the mess and unsteadiness: in the vulnerability of a baby and with the light and power of the sun." Ordained as a priest in 1996, the reverend Lucy Winkett i...
2 Apr 202411min
