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Celebrating Pride 2025

Events from the archive featuring LGBTQ+ writers

(18 recordings)

Alan Hollinghurst | Our Evenings

Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart & Jackie Kay | Shuggie Bain

Joelle Taylor

Joelle Taylor | The Night Alphabet

Brandon Taylor & Colm Tóibín

Brandon Taylor & Colm Tóibín | Real Life

jacqueline wilson

Jacqueline Wilson | The Other Edie Trimmer

Isabel Waidner Goldsmiths Prize winner 2021

Isabel Waidner: The Goldsmiths Prize 2021 Winner

Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting | One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up (audio)

douglas stuart

Douglas Stuart | Young Mungo

Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen Maria Machado | In the Dream House

Jacqueline Wilson

Jacqueline Wilson

Colm Tóibín | Long Island

Colm Toibin

Colm Toíbín | The Magician

Jay Bernard & Raymond Antrobus

Jay Bernard & Raymond Antrobus

Maggi Hambling

Maggi Hambling

Derek Owusu, Eley Williams & Paul Mendez

Preti Taneja’s Debut Novelists: Derek Owusu, Eley Williams & Paul Mendez

Robin Stevens

Robin Stevens

Robin Stevens

Robin Stevens | Ministry of Unladylike Activity

Will Eaves

Will Eaves

421 recordings

Michael Heseltine

Michael Heseltine | An Urgent Agenda to Rebuild Britain

Robert Macfarlane

Robert Macfarlane | Is a River Alive?

Cressidas Cowell

Cressida Cowell | How to Train Your Dragon School

Gary Younge

Gary Younge | State of the Nation Lecture

Chloe Dalton

Chloe Dalton | Raising Hare

Jon Bloomfield

Jon Bloomfield & David Edgar | March of the Populist Right

brain boost

Barbara Sahakian & Christelle Langley | Brain Boost: Healthy Habits for a Happier Life

ilan pappe

Ilan Pappe | What’s Next for Israel & Palestine

Tom Heap

Tom Heap | Land Smart

ROOO Frances Spalding

A Room of One’s Own Lecture | Frances Spalding

Mike Berners-Lee & Tony Juniper | The Climate Dilemma

Lindsey Hilsum

Lindsey Hilsum | Stories and Poems from the Front Line

Joycelyn Longdon

Joycelyn Longdon | Natural Connection

Diana Henry

Diana Henry | Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons

Irish Debut novelists

Irish Debut Novelists | Roisín O’Donnell, Garrett Carr & Louise Hegarty

Sarah Churchwell Erica Wagner

Sarah Churchwell & Erica Wagner | Celebrating The Great Gatsby at 100

Joan Smith

Joan Smith | Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac

Kaliane Bradley

Kaliane Bradley | The Ministry of Time

Ash Sarkar

Ash Sarkar | Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War

Diane Abbott

Diane Abbott | A Woman Like Me

Jamie smart

Jamie Smart | Bunny vs Monkey, The Great Big Glitch

The New Statesman Debate | This house believes private schools should be abolished

Private eye ian hislop

Private Eye Podcast Live | Ian Hislop, Helen Lewis, Andrew Hunter Murray & Adam Macqueen

Anne Sebba

Anne Sebba | The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival

Emma Barnett | Maternity Service

katie Kirby

Katie Kirby | The World of Lottie Brooks

John Crace

John Crace | Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10

Wendy Hitchmough & Frances Spalding

Wendy Hitchmough | Vanessa Bell: The Life & Art of a Bloomsbury Radical

Samantha Harvey

Samantha Harvey | Orbital

Nick Harkaway

Nick Harkaway | Karla’s Choice

Richard Ayoade

Richard Ayoade | The Unfinished Harauld Hughes

Andrey Kurkov

Andrey Kurkov | The Kyiv Mysteries

Michael Banner | Britain’s Slavery Debt: Reparations Now!

afghan women's writers

A Year in the Life of an Afghan Women’s Writing Group

Abi Daré | And So I Roar

David Larbi

David Larbi | Frequently Happy: 52 Mindful Moments to Bring Hope and Joy

Jane Austen panel

Helena Kelly, Alex Clark & Bharat Tandon | The Life, Writing & Legacy of Jane Austen

Rob Cowan & Rob Macfarlane

Rob Cowen & Robert Macfarlane | The North Road

Sam Leith & Lucy Mangan

Sam Leith & Lucy Mangan | Growing Up with Books

eimear mcbride

Eimear McBride | The City Changes Its Face

Ashley John Baptiste

Ashley John-Baptiste | A Childhood in Care

breakfast with the editors

Breakfast with the Editors | Andrew Marr, Helen Lewis, Hannah Barnes & Megan Gibson

Anthony Horowitz

Literary Lunch with Anthony Horowitz

Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry | The Heart in Winter

Tessa Blackstone

Tessa Blackstone | Millicent Garrett Fawcett: The Fight for Votes for Women

Gwyneth Lewis & Pascale Petit

Gwyneth Lewis & Pascale Petit | Two Poets, One Story

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah | Theft

Suzanne O'Sullivan

Suzanne O’Sullivan | The Age of Diagnosis

Led By Donkeys

Led By Donkeys | Adventures in Art, Activisim & Accountability

Alan Hollinghurst | Our Evenings

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