Jackie Kay, Jean Sprackland, Jane Feaver, Tom McRae

Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's Cabaret of the Word'. His guests include Jackie Kay whose play 'Manchester Lines' opens on June 12th and is set in a lost property office, Jane Feaver, whose new novel 'An Inventory of Heaven' is a 'meditation on the things we try to hold on to across our lives', the poet Jean Sprackland, who's turned to non-fiction with 'Strands' to record a year of discoveries on the beaches between Ainsdale and Liverpool, and acclaimed singer-songwriter Tom McRae.

Producer: Faith Lawrence.