Meet the Writers

Culture

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...

Episodes

Ece Temelkuran on exile, language and finding a new voice

Nicholas Thompson on leading change and running habits

Rachel Eliza Griffiths and the weight of memory

Catherine Carr and the complexities of sibling dynamics

Maria Semple on stoicism, rebellion and personal growth

Poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney on writing with joy

Margaret Busby on publishing, power and representation

Fatima Bhutto at the Daunt Books Festival 2026

Francis Spufford on faith, fantasy and the craft of fiction

Luka Ivan Jukic on the enduring significance of Central Europe

Karen Dobres and pitch politics

Tom Freston on media, reinvention and change

Maria Alyokhina on activism, Russia’s regime and hope for the motherland

Bora Chung on the rise of Korean literature

Andrey Kurkov on chronicling a nation at war

Damian Barr on Scottish art, memory and belonging

Alexander B Smalls on opera, food and African heritage

Steve Crawshaw and confronting global impunity

Mary L Trump and how power destroys a nation

EA Hanks and retracing family ties