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Talking Books Episodes

    Hay Festival 2019: Nicci Gerrard

    Writer Nicci Gerrard talks to George Alagiah about her latest book on dementia

    Hay Festival 2019: Kapka Kassabova

    Novelist and poet Kapka Kassabova talks about growing up behind the Iron Curtain

    Hay Festival 2019: Fatima Bhutto

    Fatima Bhutto talks to George Alagiah about how politics and tragedy shaped her writing

    T. Geronimo Johnson

    Kirsty Wark talks to author and academic T. Geronimo Johnson

    Asne Seierstad

    Norwegian author Γ…sne Seierstad is renowned for her accounts of daily life in war zones

    Anuradha Roy

    Indian writer and publisher Anuradha Roy on her novel An Atlas of Impossible Longing

    Alexander McCall Smith

    Writer Alexander McCall Smith on creating The Number 1. Ladies’ Detective Agency

    Tim Winton - Author

    Australian author Tim Winton on what drives him and his literary career

    Elizabeth Strout - Author

    Pulitzer prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout on what drives her and her literary career

    Sebastian Barry

    Author Sebastian Barry on his writing career and latest novel Days Without End

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