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Journalist Hattie Crisell visits the studies of writers of all kinds – novelists, screenwriters, poets, journalists and more – to find out how they write, why they write, and what they can t...
For this final episode of the sixth season of In Writing , I sat down with Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession , and writer/co-writer of...
Fresh from judging the Booker Prize, novelist Sara Collins joins us this week. Her debut The Confessions of Frannie Langton won the First No...
This week I'm talking to Tom Crewe, author of 2023's The New Life , contributing editor of the London Review of Books and winner of the Sund...
This week I'm in the London home of artist and writer Posy Simmonds. From the 1970s onwards, Posy had a regular comic strip in The Guardian,...
Nathan Silver, director and co-writer of Between the Temples (and many other movies) joins me from New York today to talk about his 'scriptm...
This slightly silly bonus episode marks the launch today of In Writing: Conversations on Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation...
Yomi Adegoke, bestselling author of The List and co-author of Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible , spoke to me in August for this episo...
I had a great chat this week with Craig Brown, parody writer and columnist for Private Eye and the Daily Mail , and author of offbeat biogra...
The very funny and frank Bella Mackie is with me today. We met in August to talk about the writing of her three bestselling books: the nonfi...
This week, meet Donal Ryan, who has since 2012 published seven bestselling novels and a collection of short stories. Based in County Limeric...
We're back! And I'm sitting down with influential Canadian writer and thinker Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger , No Logo , The Shock Doct...
In this final episode of the season, recorded in February 2023, I'm joined by the beloved poet and author Michael Rosen. Known equally for h...
This week's guest is the beloved novelist Barbara Trapido, who I met at her home in Oxford in March 2023. Barbara's first novel was 1982's B...
A little detour into death this week – or life, depending on how you look at it. Nigel Williamson, obituary writer for The Times newspaper,...
This week's guest is my friend Tor Freeman, who writes and illustrates comics and children's picture books. Tor is a hugely imaginative pers...
Geoff 'genre-defying' Dyer, whose career moves between fiction, non-fiction and a grey area in between, joins me this week from California....
This week, the Guardian journalist Zoe Williams joins me on In Writing . I recorded with Zoe at her home in London just before Christmas. Sh...
Hallå! My guest this week is Swedish screenwriter and director Ruben Östlund, who I met in London in December. Ruben's feature films include...
This week's guest is Sophie Mackintosh, author of books including the Booker Prize-longlisted The Water Cure , and new novel Cursed Bread ....
The fifth season of In Writing continues with Vogue columnist Raven Smith, who's known for his witty takes on pop culture, modern life and m...
I'm back! And very happy about it. This week, Nigerian novelist Ayobami Adebayo speaks to me from her home in Lagos. Ayobami is the author o...
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For the last episode of the fourth series of In Writing , Rumaan Alam joins me remotely from his house in Brooklyn, New York. Rumaan is the...
Georgia Pritchett is my very funny guest this week. She's been writing for TV since the early Nineties and has worked on Smack the Pony , Th...
The 40th episode of In Writing focuses on the art of letter-writing. Shaun Usher, who spoke to me last week from his home in Manchester, is...
Australian writer Liane Moriarty joins me this week from her family home in Sydney. Liane has written nine novels, including her latest myst...
Today's interview is with the writer and editor Craig Taylor, who dials in from an island shack off the coast of western Canada. Once a Guar...
It's wonderful to have novelist Meg Mason on the podcast this week. On holiday in June, I got more hooked on her novel Sorrow and Bliss than...
Not a normal In Writing episode today, but a wholehearted recommendation for something new . This is a guest episode of the excellent podcas...
This week's guest is The Guardian 's John Crace, writer of satirical parliamentary sketches, as well as a personal diary column. For a long...
This week I sit down with Christine Rose at her home in London, to find out all about a job that most people aren't aware exists. Christine...
This week, armed with tea and Jaffa cakes, I speak to the writer Amer Anwar at his home in west London. Amer is the author of Brothers in Bl...
I'm thrilled to be back for a fourth series, and to be kicking it off with such an interesting guest. Elif Shafak is a British-Turkish novel...
This is a bonus episode with a writer who, in a way, has carved out a bonus career: Graham Norton. Long-established as a hugely successful p...
In the final episode of the third series (thank you for listening!), Maggie O'Farrell joins me from her home in Edinburgh. Maggie is the aut...
James Acaster joins me this week to talk about writing stand-up comedy. James has filmed five stand-up specials – the first four make up the...
This week I'm joined by Wendy Erskine, author of the remarkable Sweet Home , an award-winning short story collection set in modern Belfast....
Back in early November 2020, Will Storr spoke to me from a solo writing retreat in Spain, where he was working, sleeping and doing nothing e...
The writer and illustrator Cressida Cowell joins me this week, with a backdrop of birdsong from outside her writing shed. Cressida wrote and...
This week I speak to George Saunders: author of 11 books including the 2017 Man Booker Prize winner Lincoln in the Bardo ; regular contribut...
Grace Dent – Guardian restaurant critic, columnist, author and Masterchef star – joins me from her bed this week. With a string of young adu...
Brandon Taylor, author of the novel Real Life , joins me from Iowa this week. At the end of a whirlwind year in which his debut was shortlis...
In this bonus episode, I speak to London Grammar‘s Hannah Reid, songwriter and vocalist. Ahead of the release of the band's third album, Cal...
This week, John Lanchester joins me from his writing shed at the bottom of the garden. John has just published a new collection of spooky sh...
Season 3 is here! My first guest is Lucy Prebble, playwright of A Very Expensive Poison and Enron; showrunner of the Sky series I Hate Suzie...
My final guest of the second series is Jon Ronson: journalist, documentary-maker, screenwriter, and author of wonderful narrative longform n...
Kit de Waal, whose books include My Name Is Leon, The Trick to Time and the new short story collection Supporting Cast , joins me this week...
TV writer Robert Popper joins me for a chat this week, fresh off the sixth series of his Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner . Robert has b...
Mhairi McFarlane is the author of six great novels in the genre of romantic comedy/chick lit (delete as preferred), including her most recen...
This week I chat to Will Harris, a London-born poet and essayist of mixed Anglo-Indonesian heritage. Will’s debut poetry collection RENDANG...