Writing
Desert Island Discs. Ali Smith. Audio, 45 minutes
Ali Smith, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Four Thought. Other People's Stories. Audio, 15 minutes
Anna Derrig asks who has the right to tell someone else's story.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Four Thought. The Art of Diary Writing. Audio, 15 minutes
Sally Bayley traces the art of diary writing from Pepys to today's culture of blogging.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Ramblings. Series 34, Passionate Walkers: David Nicholls. Audio, 23 minutes
Clare Balding meets novelist David Nicholls to walk to The Devil's Punchbowl in Surrey.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Four Thought. The Social Media Poet. Audio, 15 minutes
Brian Bilston on becoming an accidental Twitter poet.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Jilly Cooper. Audio, 45 minutes
Jilly Cooper, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Horrible Histories. Specials, Staggering Storytellers. Video, 28 minutes
A look at some of literature's greatest works and history's wackiest writers.
- AttributionCBBC
- Available for over a year
The Essay. The Earl Grey Whistle Test, The Earl Grey Whistle Test: The Writer's Wardrobe. Audio, 15 minutes
Music journalist David Hepworth discusses the dress code for the creative homeworker.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Between the Ears. The Impossible Book. Audio, 45 minutes
Drama about a writer suffering hallucinations on a train travelling through time and space
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Radio 3 Documentary. Literary Pursuits: Jane Austen's Persuasion. Audio, 44 minutes
Sarah Dillon discovers how Jane Austen's last completed novel, 'Persuasion' was written.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
A Point of View. The Power of the Pen. Audio, 10 minutes
Sarah Dunant reflects on the demise of handwriting.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Heart and Soul. Marilynne Robinson on Fear. Audio, 27 minutes
Author Marilynne Robinson on the role fear plays in faith, politics, democracy, culture
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
One to One. Mark Lawson talks to Rachel Cusk. Audio, 15 minutes
Mark Lawson talks to writer and author Rachel Cusk.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives. Manto: The Unsentimentalist. Audio, 14 minutes
Exploring the life and work of India's master of the short story, Saadat Hasan Manto.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
One to One. Mark Lawson talks to Adam Mars-Jones. Audio, 15 minutes
Mark Lawson talks to author and critic Adam Mars-Jones about writing a memoir.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Literary Pursuits, Charles Dickens: Great Expectations. Audio, 45 minutes
Sarah Dillon reveals a tale of money and passion behind Dickens's Great Expectations.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Colm Toibin. Audio, 45 minutes
Colm Toibin, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Miles Jupp and the Plot Device. Audio, 30 minutes
Miles Jupp investigates the Plot Device that spawned a million pulp fictions.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Profile. Michel Houellebecq. Audio, 13 minutes
Ed Stourton profiles Michel Houellebecq, the controversial novelist who loves to provoke.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Why Factor. Why Do We Need Diaries? Audio, 12 minutes
They hold our secrets, and preserve our memories, but why do we need diaries?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Achalasia Diaries. Audio, 30 minutes
Femi Martin finds fulfillment as a writer and performer as a result of a chronic illness.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Cutting Up the Cut-Up. Audio, 30 minutes
Ken Hollings examines the artistic device to create new meaning from existing recordings.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Four Thought. Matt Haig. Audio, 15 minutes
The writer Matt Haig describes how words helped him live with depression.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
