Meet the Writers
Georgina Godwin in conversation with top authors. Explore their inspirations, writing processes, and the stories behind their books.
Latest Episodes
Douglas Kennedy
Bestselling author of ‘The Big Picture,’ ‘The Pursuit of Happiness,’ ‘Leaving the World’ and ‘The Moment’ joins Georgina Godwin in the studio. He talks about his jump from theatre to literature, as well as writing as a woman.
Julian Fuks
Fuks is one of Brazil’s rising literary talents who has won or been nominated for a clutch of prestigious prizes and seen his work translated into more than 10 languages. His latest book, ‘Resistance’, is an examination of family, identity, belonging and different forms of exile, as he discusses with…
Thomas Page McBee
Thomas didn’t start off as a man. As his body has changed, he’s explored the meaning of gender and how culture shapes our understanding of masculinity. He discusses it with Georgina Godwin.
Chris Bryant
Chris Bryant is a former priest and now a Labour party member of parliament. He talks about going from the House of God to the House of Commons, the biographies he has written including two volumes on parliament, his new book ‘Entitled’ about the British aristocracy and how he is…
Julian Sayarer
Julian Sayarer is a true adventurer: he broke a world record in his mid-twenties, he’s hitchhiked through middle America and travelled by boat to remote islands in Asia. It’s come together with his background in political science to create a critically acclaimed travel-writing style – politics at roadsides – as…
Tim Moore
British travel writer Tim Moore has 10 travelogues under his belt. His latest, ‘Another Fine Mess: Travels Through Trumpland in a Model T Ford’, charts his journey through the Trump-voting areas of the US. He tells us all about it.
ScotiaBank Giller prize
In a special episode we feature the award that recognises excellence in Canadian writing. We hear from all the shortlisted authors (including the winner, of course), judge Philip Hensher and the executive director of the prize, now in its 25th year.
Paul Kenyon
Kenyon is a Bafta-winning journalist. His new book, ‘Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa’, describes the violence and excess of some of the continent’s strongmen – and behind them, the greed and complicity of the West.
Sulaiman Adonia
Eritrean-born writer Addonia grew up in a Sudanese refugee camp and arrived unaccompanied in the UK without a word of English. Since then he’s been published around the world in more than 20 languages; he tells Georgina Godwin about his amazing journey.
Kamal Ahmed
This week we examine identity through the eyes of prominent journalist Kamal Ahmed. He discusses his dual heritage – his mother is English and father was Sudanese – in his new book ‘The Life and Times of a Very British Man’.
