For Episode Four, I spoke to Heather Parry, writer, editor, crochet-enthusiast, co-founder of the brilliant magazine Extra Teeth, and excellent event chair who has worked with a great many venues and festivals — including Golden Hare Books and Edinburgh International Book Festival — and knows how to get the best out of authors and artists alike. We spoke about the process and etiquete of interviewing writers onstage and the necessity to kill one's darlings when editing writing — something Heather turned out to be frighteningly enthusiastic about. Follow Heather on Twitter — @heatherparryuk

For Episode Three, I spoke to Dr. Sarah Lonsdale, Senior Lecturer in Journalism at City, Univerity of London, about her new book — Rebel Women Between the Wars: Writers, Activists, Adventurers (Manchester University Press, October 2020)

Other Books and Articles discussed —

Observer Article — The pioneering women who took on Hitler … and Fleet Street

Climbing Days — Dan Richards

For Episode Two, I met up with playwright & dramatist Oliver Emanuel and author Max Porter to discuss writing, collaboration and the recent adaptation of Max's novel, Lanny, which Oliver has undertaken for BBC Radio 4... along with some excellent bear-based chat!

Books and programmes mentioned — The Tenderness of Boys - Oliver Emanuel / The Gift - Lewis Hyde / I Want My Hat Back - Jon Klassen / Grief Is The Thing with Feathers - Max Porter / Lanny - Max Porter / We're Going on a Bear Hunt - Michael Rosen & Helen Oxenbury

For this first episode, I spoke to writer Sarah Perry, author of three acclaimed novels — After Me Comes The Flood (2014), The Essex Serpent (2016), and Melmoth (2018).

Sarah's first work of non-fiction, Essex Girls, is set to be published in October 2020.

— Music, books and films mentioned —

• Spotify Playlist of Music Discussed
• The soundtrack for Patience (After Sebald) (2012), a film by Grant Gee
• Honeyvoiced Mythweaver (Sappho) by Stephen Crowe

• A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor - John Berger & Jean Mohr
• Sombrero Fallout - Richard Brautigan
• There Will Be No Quiet - Stanley Donwood
• Middlemarch - George Eliot / Mary Anne Evans
• Consider the Oyster - MFK Fisher
• Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now - Jason Lanier
• Holloway - Robert Macfarlane, Dan Richards & Stanley Donwood
• The Mirror & the Light - Hilary Mantel
• Autumn Journal - Louis MacNeice
• The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
• Melmoth - Sarah Perry
• Essex Girls - Sarah Perry
• Climbing Days - Dan Richards
• Outpost - Dan Richards
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli
• The Order of Time -  Carlo Rovelli
• The Gilead series - Marilynne Robinson
• The Rings of Saturn - WG Sebald
• Maus - Art Spiegelman
• Reunion - Fred Uhlman

• The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick (2011)