Leigh Chambers' guest is Beth Lynch talking about her memoir, Where The Hornbeam Grows, how her search for a garden helped her overcome grief and, literally, put down roots. Melissa Fu discusses the inspiration behind her debut poetry collection, Falling Outside Eden. … [Read more...]

Leigh Chambers’ guest is David Reynolds talking about his book, Island Stories, which investigates how Britain’s sense of national identity has been shaped, and how that has brought us to Brexit. Simon Parkin discusses his book A Game of Birds and Wolves in which he reveals how a secret war game played helped Britain win the Battle of the Atlantic. … [Read more...]

For the Christmas Bookmark Leigh Chambers looks at the most popular genre of fiction, crime fiction. Richard Reynolds from Heffers Bookshop joins Leigh to talk about his favourite crime novels of 2019 and some of the outstanding crime authors based in Cambridge and Cambridgeshire. … [Read more...]

This edition has a theme of looking back at the past. The studio guest is Zeba Talkhani talking about her memoir My Past Is A Foreign Country; A Muslim Feminist Finds Herself. Award-winning journalist Amelia Gentleman discusses her book The Windrush Betrayal about the mistreatment by the Home Office of descendants of the Windrush generation. And … [Read more...]

Claire McGlasson talks to Leigh Chambers about her debut novel, The Rapture, based on the real-life story of The Panacea Society, a 1920s religious cult of women who believed that they’d discovered the original Garden of Eden in Bedford. Toby Litt discusses his new novel Patience set in an orphanage in 1979. And Erica Wickerson explores the ongoing … [Read more...]

Leigh Chambers is joined by Jennifer Wallace who’ll be choosing the music and discussing her new book, Tragedy Since 9/11, which argues that a knowledge of tragedy in literature can help us understand tragic events of the 21st century. Children’s writer, Janet Bingham, talks about why she was drawn to the picture book genre. And YA author, Bex … [Read more...]

Nicola Upson talks to Leigh Chambers about her latest novel, Stanley and Elsie, based on the complicated love-life of the artist Stanley Spencer. Dennis Grube discusses his new book Megaphone Democracy, an examination of the increasing role civil servants are playing in political public life. And Kate Fleet and Angela Cogo chat about their … [Read more...]