Meet the Writers
Georgina Godwin in conversation with top authors. Explore their inspirations, writing processes, and the stories behind their books.
Latest Episodes
Ryan Gattis
Los Angeles-based US author Ryan Gattis is an extremely interesting character in his own right. He tells Georgina Godwin how being thumped in the face by a college friend on acid helped to shape his career and gives us some insight into the workings behind his latest book ‘All Involved’.…
Paul Beatty
Paul Beatty is a Los Angeles-born author and poet who has written satire and performed on television. His latest book ‘The Sellout’ has already won the National Book Critics Circle award and has now been given the UK’s highest literary honour, the Man Booker prize. Georgina Godwin speaks to him…
Jonathan Safran Foer: part two
The second of a two-part series featuring the acclaimed American author Jonathan Safran Foer. He speaks about his new novel ‘Here I am’, a book that is organised around two crisis: the discovery of a cellphone that reveals an affair and an earthquake. He discusses the meaning of the title,…
Jonathan Safran Foer: part one
In the first of a two-part series, we meet acclaimed US author Jonathan Safran Foer to discuss the near-death experience that led to him becoming a writer. While it may seem like he was an overnight success following the publication of ‘Everything is Illuminated’, here Foer divulges the wealth of…
Kathy Lette
This week on ‘Meet The Writers’, Georgina Godwin talks to the woman whose sharp and witty observations have earned her the name Miss Quiplash: best-selling Australian author Kathy Lette. Her work has been made into TV series and films, she once turned down a date with George Clooney and she’s…
Judith Kerr
Author and illustrator Judith Kerr has captured the heart of countless children with her books, including ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ and the ‘Mog the Friendly Cat’ series. She was born in 1923 and after escaping Nazi Germany settled with her family in the UK in 1936. In this…
Jay McInerney: part two
In the final instalment of our two-part series featuring the critically acclaimed author of ‘Bright Lights, Big City’, Jay McInerney, we hear about his children, the parallels between his writing and personal life and the current mood in New York.
Jay McInerney: part one
In the first in a two-part series featuring the critically acclaimed author of ‘Bright Lights, Big City’, we talk to Jay McInerney about his many marriages, his love of wine (and other intoxicants) and his latest work ‘Bright, Precious Days’.
Maureen Freely
Georgina Godwin sits down with Maureen Freely, a prolific writer and translator best known for her work with Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk. Freely is the head of the Literature department at Warwick University and the chair of English Pen, the writers organisation that champions freedom of expression. Here she talks…
Susan Williams
Georgina Godwin talks to academic and author Susan Williams about her book ‘Spies in The Congo’, which features espionage in the Belgian Congo during the Second World War and the secrecy surrounding the Manhattan Project. We also discuss ‘Who Killed Hammarskjöld?’, the book that triggered a new UN inquiry into…
