259 Episodes

  1. Karin Slaughter on banned books and the fight for truth

    Published: 8/17/2025

  2. The women redefining literary festivals

    Published: 8/13/2025

  3. Nick Harkaway and the legacy of Le Carré

    Published: 8/10/2025

  4. Jean McNeil on bearing witness to a disappearing world

    Published: 8/3/2025

  5. Guadalupe Nettel on human nature in fiction

    Published: 7/27/2025

  6. C K Stead at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival

    Published: 7/23/2025

  7. Karim Kattan on writing between languages and landscapes 

    Published: 7/20/2025

  8. Michael and Matariki Bennett at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival 

    Published: 7/16/2025

  9. Damian Le Bas on writing between worlds

    Published: 7/13/2025

  10. Agustina Bazterrica at Hay Festival 2025

    Published: 7/9/2025

  11. Esther Freud on family, fiction and healing

    Published: 7/6/2025

  12. Damien Wilkins at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival

    Published: 7/2/2025

  13. Eliza Reid on crafting her first mystery

    Published: 6/29/2025

  14. Meike Ziervogel on her humanitarian and literary drive

    Published: 6/22/2025

  15. The Winners of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction

    Published: 6/15/2025

  16. Miranda Cowley Heller on what lies beneath art and memory

    Published: 6/8/2025

  17. Ewan Morrison on AI and its side effects

    Published: 6/1/2025

  18. Tiffany Watt Smith on female friendships

    Published: 5/25/2025

  19. Jeremy Vine: Broadcasting and the stories that matter

    Published: 5/18/2025

  20. Ahmed Alnaouq: the voices of Gaza beyond the headlines

    Published: 5/11/2025

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Want to know more about the authors behind your favourite books? Tune in to discover the methods of – and inspiration behind – some of the world’s most exciting writers. Every Saturday, Georgina Godwin hosts an in-depth discussion with the person behind the prose.