Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,09 Jul 2017,28 mins

Matt Haig

Open Book

Available for over a year

Matt Haig has written frankly and movingly about his struggles with depression, topped the seasonal bestseller lists with A Boy Called Christmas and The Girl Who Saved Christmas and his new novel, How To Stop Time, takes on big questions of life, death and mortality. He talks to Mariella Frostrup about his varied writing career. Also on the programme, as part of BBC Radio 4's Queer Icon Season, Val McDermid celebrates Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando; and a literary postcard from Argentina.

Programme Website
More episodes