Writing

They hold our secrets, and preserve our memories, but why do we need diaries?

Femi Martin finds fulfillment as a writer and performer as a result of a chronic illness.

Ken Hollings examines the artistic device to create new meaning from existing recordings.

The writer Matt Haig describes how words helped him live with depression.

Three Booker Prize winners give their view on Margaret Thatcher's influence on fiction.

At the 2015 Hay Festival, Welsh poet laureate Gillian Clarke explains why she writes.

At the 2015 Hay Festival, novelist Frank Cottrell Boyce explains why he writes.

Literary journalist and writer Alex Clark explains why she writes.

At the 2015 Hay Festival, author and journalist Horatio Clare explains why he writes.

Editor and translator Daniel Hahn explains why he writes.

Nick Rankin explores the literary legacy of the writer John Buchan.

Naomi Alderman talks to novelist Ursula Le Guin and hears from fans including Neil Gaiman.

Matthew Sweet explores the science fiction futures of three neglected female writers.

Debbie Wiseman delves into the world of the song lyricist

Novelist Deborah Moggach revisits her first book, written in Pakistan.

Does it matter if we write less by hand?

Philip Pullman and Michael Rosen talk in depth about language and writing.

Alexander McCall Smith explores the work of writers and their favourite characters.

Elizabeth Wurtzel explores the relationship between writing and the need to pay the bills.

The disappearing art of the hand-written letter and three stories of love

Aminatta Forna tells the extraordinary story of hard-living writer Jack London.