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Historian Orlando Figes discusses his book Just send me word, the story of a young Muscovite exiled to a Soviet arctic gulag and his relationship through over one thousand five hundred letters with his wife to be. These letters are the largest ever found about gulag life and give a fascinating insight into conditions there and in 1950s Soviet Russia.

Long summer days, the sound of leather on willow, googlies, ducks and silly mid offs.... the game of cricket has captured the imagination of writers from Dickens, LP Hartley and P. G Wodehouse to Douglas Adams and Joseph O'Neill. Authors Anthony Quinn and Shehan Karunatilaka discuss how the game of cricket has inspired their latest books

Writing Britain; Wastelands to Wonderlands is a new exhibition at the British Library, where they have one hundred and fifty original items exploring how writers view Britain in six literary inspired themes, from Rural Dreams to the Industrial Muse. In today's programme the exhibition's lead curator Jamie Andrews discusses "Cockney Visions," - the role London has played in the literary landscape.
Writing Britain continues at the British Library until the 25th of September.

Producer: Andrea Kidd.