Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 8 days 8 hours 46 minutes
In an audio play specially commissioned for the Guardian by Soho Theatre, a fisherman confronts the tide of refugees sweeping across the Mediterranean
We catch up with the novelist Colm Tóibín at the Charleston festival, and explore why women are so often at the centre of his work
We confront the most difficult subjects with the novelist Anuradha Roy and mortician Caitlin Doughty
Raj Ghatak reads the first chapter of Amitav Ghosh's latest novel, Flood of Fire• Interview: Amitav Ghosh
We explore the connections between Patrick Gale’s novel A Place Called Winter and a memoir from Barbara Taylor, The Last Asylum
From the depths of the British Library to the top of Manchester’s great domed Central Library, we explore the inner workings of our most precious treasure houses of knowledge
We follow the call of the wild with Thwaites Wainwright prizewinner John Lewis-Stempel and novelist Sarah Hall
The troubled histories of Rwanda and Angola feature in two debuts in contention for the Baileys and Orwell prizes
The philosopher John Gray discusses his latest book, The Soul of the Marionette, with the novelist Will Self
We go in search of heroes with Amit Chaudhuri’s reworking of the Odyssey and Katrine Marçal’s deconstruction of economic myth