Meet the Writers
Georgina Godwin in conversation with top authors. Explore their inspirations, writing processes, and the stories behind their books.
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Joanna Walsh
To call Walsh just an award-winning author would be a disservice. She’s also a journalist, campaigner, a literary judge, speaker and a diarist. She spoke to Georgina Godwin about her extraordinary output.
Leïla Slimani
Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France’s most prestigious award for literature, the Prix Goncourt. Her international bestseller ‘Lullaby’ has just been translated into English and she’s been appointed French president Emmanuel…
Professor Muhammad Yunus
Meet the man who invented micro finance and has won the Nobel Peace prize for his endeavours to end poverty. He tells us about his latest book, A World of Three Zeros: The New…
Jeetendr Sehdev
Sehdev, professor of marketing at the University of Southern California, is best known for pioneering a scientific, research-based approach to quantify celebrity influence. He’s now written an eye-opening guide to understanding why only the…
Vanessa Nicolson
Vanessa Nicolson worked as an art historian and journalist before publishing ‘Have You Been Good?’ in 2015, her debut memoir about growing up in one of the UK’s most eminent aristocratic and artistic families.…
Jeremy Thompson
“Award-winning broadcaster Jeremy Thompson has reported on monumental events around the world, from Indira Ghandi’s assassination and the Tiananmen Square massacre to the release of Nelson Mandela, countless wars, elections and military coups. He…
Amanda Craig
Compared to Charles Dickens for her work commenting on the gulf between the rich and poor, Amanda Craig tells Georgina Godwin about her seven interconnected novels on the state of contemporary British society. Craig…
100 Years of Finland Part 2: Horatio Clare
As Finland celebrates 100 years of independence, we continue to explore the country’s literary scene. We talk to travel writer, memoirist and children’s author Horatio Clare. A message from the Finnish embassy launched him…
100 Years of Finland Part 1: Pajtim Statovci
As Finland celebrates 100 years of independence, we have the first of two programmes with a special focus on the country’s literary scene. Georgina Godwin talks to Pajtim Statovci about his debut book ‘My…
Mike Brearley
In the week The Ashes begin, we meet one of England’s greatest cricket captains, who has also spent the past 30 years as a psychoanalyst. Mike Brearley talks about what it means to be…
