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In The Wintering Sessions, NYT bestselling author Katherine May talks to writers or performers about the cold seasons in life: the times they’ve fallen through the cracks, felt left out, iso...
A beautiful, bird-filled episode from the wonderful collaborative duo of writer Robert Macfarlane and illustrator Jackie Morris. Together th...
We’re back! After a small, restorative break, we are excited to bring you a new season of The Clearing, where Katherine will explore visions...
California-based illustrator, author and Instagram phenomenon Carissa Potter chats to Katherine about the complexities of taking rest during...
Experiencing everything, everywhere, all at once is where we find our guest Elissa Altman this week, as she chats to Katherine in the midst...
As someone whose life was turned upside down by an unexpected divorce and a subsequent move away from the evangelical church, US author and...
A deliciously glamorous escape to the snowy setting of a luxury Swiss chalet hotel where 1920s faded English aristocracy meets 1950s Hollywo...
Floor to ceiling windows overlooking a temperate blue ocean off the coast of New Zealand is where this week’s guest, journalist and author P...
Prolific author of nine books and writer behind the Substack phenomenon The Hyphen, Emma Gannon takes us away for a whole year to her imagin...
Settling in amongst the sparkling sea views and scented coniferous trees of Corfu, writer Mike Sowden tells Katherine why he is ditching the...
Katherine explains why we are heeding our own advice and taking a tiny break this week. She also previews some exciting, listener-led bonus...
A modern sage who forewarned the world of the rise of fascism, writer Ece Temelkuran explains why she ‘put her heart in the freezer’ ten yea...
Author, storyteller and enrolled citizen of the Potawatomi nation, Kaitlin Curtice, shares her beautiful image of the perfect retreat, creat...
This episode of The Clearing with renowned, Oprah-endorsed American life coach Martha Beck and her wonderful wife and podcast co-host Rowan...
Chef and cookery writer Melissa Hemsley shares her bucolic, Darling Buds of May-esque fantasy of ‘safe’ escape with Katherine. Filled with w...
Writer and former magazine editor Sam Baker is dragged kicking and screaming into this getaway as she admits she can never let go of her int...
The ADHD and autistic tendency to rest in motion is fully realised in American author and illustrator Andy J. Pizza’s vision of the ideal re...
Kicking off the episode with an existential crisis, the inimitable Oliver Burkeman joins Katherine to explore his own, unique take on rest a...
In this episode Katherine chats to Laura Pashby, author of the incredible book Chasing Fog and master of ethereal photography, about her vis...
Katherine launches her new podcast The Clearing with British actor, comedian, author and 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction judge Cariad Lloyd....
Katherine is delighted to let you know she’s back with a new podcast series called The Clearing. In each episode she asks writers and creati...
Recently, Katherine interviewed Sarah Moss about her incredible new memoir, My Good Bright Wolf , an account of growing up as a difficult gi...
What’s to be done with the lost, the dead, but write them into being?’ So writes Hilary Mantel in her extraordinary memoir, Giving Up the Gh...
It was National Poetry Day in the UK earlier this month and Katherine talked to Kate Fox about her new book, On Sycamore Gap , in an extra B...
September - when we’re almost as likely to be trying to reform ourselves as in January - is the perfect moment for Oliver Burkeman’s new boo...
This month, Katherine spoke to Lucy Jones about Matrescence , her book about the profound changes wrought by pregnancy and birth. Combining...
Katherine was excited to speak to Daniel Tammet about his latest book, Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum . Katherine has been reading...
Join Katherine as she talks with Tom Newlands about his debut novel, Only Here, Only Now . Katherine talks with Tom about his female main pr...
Join me for a recent conversation with comedian, essayist, blogger, and television writer Samantha Irby. Recorded as part of my True Stories...
At a superficial level, Soil is a gardening memoir, full of gorgeous descriptions of plants and getting your hands in the soil. But the gard...
In the past few years, resistance has been a live issue for many of us, whether we’re wondering for the first time how to bring about social...
The wolf carries an almost unbearable amount of symbolism in western culture, encapsulating the predatory, the carnal, the supernatural and...
I stumbled across Dacher Keltner’s work when I was first researching Enchantment , and now - for the final episode in this season - I’m hono...
Marjolijn van Heemstra believes that we can change the world by gazing into the night sky. Her book, In Light Years There’s No Hurry , explo...
How can we return to a richer, more complex understanding of national identity and personal ethics - one that can only come from folklore? A...
In this week’s episode of How We Live Now, Katherine speaks to author and public intellectual Báyò Akómoláfé. We consider how we can step ou...
Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s writing rings with a sense of connection between this world and the otherworld, and nowhere is it expressed more clea...
When I spoke to Morgan Harper Nichols, she was taking a break from assignment-writing for the MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Arts she’s stud...
Pico Iyer’s latest book, The Half Known Life, looks at the ways in which we seek paradise on earth, sometimes in places that are fraught wit...
We're in between seasons of How We Live Now and Katherine is in the midst of talking about her new book Enchantment in radio and podcast int...
Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran understands the problems of rightwing populism better than most: she lives as an exile, after her criticis...
Emma Gannon is a true digital native, a storyteller who finds creative inspiration in online communities, and who has sought a more thoughtf...
Jay Griffiths’ writing has long explored the link between land, culture and our potential for connection, but her father’s death during lock...
Many of us are enduring a painful new awareness of the conflicts that underpin our social relationships. For Buddhist teacher Lama Rod Owens...
Being a Sikh in America gives Simran Jeet Singh a very particular insight into the divisions that run between us: on one hand, his visible d...
When it comes to getting together, Priya Parker turns our assumptions on their heads: gatherings, she says, benefit from firm rules and care...
Susan Cain’s groundbreaking book, Quiet , taught a generation of readers to perceive and value their introvert qualities. Her latest book, B...
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May. Author Raynor Winn talks to Katherine May about the losing her home when her husband w...
While we take a rest over the summer, we’re sharing some remastered episodes from Season One, chosen by listeners. This week, I talk to Leah...
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May. While we take a rest over the summer, we’re sharing some remastered episodes from Seas...
Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May. Producer Note: You'll notice a slight change in Katherine's audio in the second half o...