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  1. Zimbabwean writing

    NoViolet Bulwayo's We Need New Names on stage plus "enfant terrible" Dambudzo Marechera

  2. Zadie Smith

    Zadie Smith talks dance, depicting teenage friends and US/UK differences with Philip Dodd

  3. Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

    Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of a Rwandan survivor of the civil war.

  4. Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf

    Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of a Rwandan survivor

  5. Yishai Sarid; marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2022

    Anne McElvoy talks to Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid & hears about new historical research

  6. Yiddish and Rotwelsch, Nazi France

    Michael Rosen and Martin Puchner talk to Matthew Sweet about a lost language of the road

  7. Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes

    Novelist R F Kuang, Dr Kerry McInerney, Ghislaine Boddington and MIT's Daron Acemoglu

  8. WW II radio propaganda & French relations

    From a gratitude train to the sinister broadcasts to US soldiers. Matthew Sweet presents.

  9. Writing Real Life from Brexit to Grenfell

    Ali Smith, Jay Bernard and James Graham at the British Library with Matthew Sweet

  10. Writing Place

    Sylvia Townsend Warner's move to Dorset, Heidegger's Heimat and the Arun river in Sussex.

  11. Writing Love: Sarah Hall, Monica Ali, Adam Mars-Jones

    Shahidha Bari is joined by three writers to discuss love and the contemporary novel.

  12. Writing and Place: Wales

    Zoë Skoulding and Tom Bullough talk to Joan Passey about Wales in their writing

  13. Writing and Place: The North-East

    Jessica Andrews and Jake Morris-Campbell compare notes with Ian McMillan

  14. Writing and Place: The Cairngorms

    Amanda Thomson and Merryn Glover talk to Kate Molleson about Scots nature writing

  15. Writing and Place: Northern Ireland

    Colin Bateman and Michelle Gallen talk about their writing to Shahidha Bari

  16. Writing and Place: Cornwall

    Wyl Menmuir and Natasha Carthew talk to Joan Passey

  17. Writing and Frankness

    Deborah Levy, Adam Phillips & Amia Srinivasan join Matthew Sweet at the British Library.

  18. Writing about money

    Orwell Prize finalist Kojo Koram plus poetry interested in economics

  19. Writing About Faith

    Stand-up Frank Skinner and novelists Jeet Thayil and Yaa Gyasi talk to Laurence Scott

  20. Writing a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel Holmes

    Biographers of Tom Stoppard, Sylvia Pankhurst and a little known SS soldier compare notes

  21. World's Fairs and the future

    Visions of the future shaped by empire, politics and unfaltering faith in progress

  22. Woody Allen, Charles Dickens biography and what it means to be human

    Juiet Gardner talks to Woody Allen about his latest comedy Midnight in Paris.

  23. Women's Art

    Jennifer Higgie, Adjoa Osei, Veronica Ryan, and Lydia Yee talk to Shahidha Bari

  24. Women, relationships and the law past and present

    Novelists Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Layla AlAmmar & historians Jennifer Aston + Jessica Malay

  25. Women, art and activism

    Naomi Paxton and guests on exhibitions at Tate Britain, the Barbican and Modern Art Oxford

  26. Women warriors and power brokers

    Shobana Jeyasingh, Cat Jarman and Janina Ramirez with Shahidha Bari

  27. Women Finding a Voice

    Deborah Frances-White host of The Guilty Feminist pod, Natalie Haynes, Michèle Roberts

  28. Women Behaving Badly?

    Kiley Reid on her new novel and Helen Lewis on 'difficult' women

  29. WOLVES

    How wolves shape our modern world.

  30. Wolfson Prize 2023

    Rana Mitter talks to the six authors shortlisted for the UK's main history writing prize

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