We're talking about other people on this weeks show as we look at biography. Why are we so fascinated by other peoples' lives? Do they cast light on our own or is it just plain nosiness? Our studio guest is Dr Anna Whitelock, historian, author and broadcaster whose first biography, Mary Tudor: England's First Queen was shortlisted for the … [Read more...]

This week Book Night focuses on poetry. Our studio guest is winner of the Crashaw Prize and Granta New Poet, Kaddy Benyon, who talks to us about her first poetry collection, Milk Fever, and her forthcoming collection, Call Her Alaska (as well as what it was like to write for Hollyoaks!). We also have interviews with performance poets Fay Roberts … [Read more...]

This week Book Night meets up with writer and poet André Mangeot. André has published two poetry collections to date: Natural Causes (Shoestring, 2003) and Mixer (Egg Box, 2005) along with two books of short stories, A Little Javanese (Salt, 2008) and True North (Salt, 2010).  … [Read more...]

Leigh Chambers and Alex Ruczaj present a fortnightly show featuring Cambridge-based writers. This week’s show focuses on some of the fantastic writers involved in Cambridge’s very own festival of new plays –Hotbed. Staged at the Cambridge Junction, Hotbed is the brainchild of the Menagerie Theatre Company who support writers to develop … [Read more...]

Leigh Chambers and Alex Ruczaj present a fortnightly show featuring Cambridge based writers. Each show includes a studio guest or local author who chats about their life and career in the world of literature as well as playing some of their favourite music. … [Read more...]

Our studio guest this week is the wonderful Sarah Wise (author of The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London, The Blackest Streets: Life and Death of a Victorian Slum, and Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad Doctors in Victorian England) and we also have interviews with the marvellous Clare Mulley (The Spy Who Loved: The … [Read more...]

This week Book Night speaks to bestselling author, Victoria Hislop. Her first novel, The Island, has sold over two million copies worldwide. Her second novel, The Return, was a Sunday Times bestseller and The Thread, her third novel, followed suit. Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages. Paige Toon (centre with Leigh and Alex), … [Read more...]