Podcasts & Videos

J. Robert Lennon joins Tom to discuss Elmore Leonard’s rules for writers and the ways in which great crime novels will always defy the prescriptions of the genre.

The Belgrano affair reaches its climax as the stories of Narendra Sethia and Clive Ponting connect. The two whistleblowers appear in court and the diary makes its final journey.

In this episode, Mark and Seamus consider the different ways Jay Bernard’s 'Surge' and Kei Miller’s 'In Nearby Bushes' respond to the shocking events they depict, while also incorporating them into...

Parkinson’s disease turns off certain genes in the cells of the brain. What does it mean for a writer to confront scriptural disintegration and can boxing help rewire the spluttering brain? 

James Butler talks to former Labour MP and minister Chris Mullin, columnist Andy Beckett and journalist Morgan Jones about whether Labour can recover from mistakes over tax.

Wrong Norma is Anne Carson’s first book of original material in eight years, a collection of writings, as she puts it, ‘about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty,...