Wole Soyinka

American author Rachel Kusher talks about her award-winning novel, The Mars Room. The novel follows Romy Hall, as she begins two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, after killing her stalker.The story weaves between the two sides of Romy’s exist ...  Show more

World Book Club welcomes Karin Slaughter to answer your questions about her brutal, heart-rending thriller, The Good Daughter.28 years after the murder of their mother, another horrific crime forces sisters Sam and Charlie Quinn to confront the truth about the night that shattere ...  Show more

100 years ago English PEN was founded to create a “common meeting ground in every country for all writers.” and it quickly grew into an international organisation. The organisation has long campaigned for Freedom of Expression for writers. To mark the centenary, in a special edit ...  Show more

Oprah sits down with New York Times bestselling author, mentor and criminal justice activist, Shaka Senghor, for a powerful conversation about his new book, Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father's Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom. After being incarcerated for nearly tw ...  Show more

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown picks Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart. With archive contributions from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chinua Achebe himself. He was born in Nigeria in 1930 and Yasmin Alibhai Brown met him twice in Uganda in the 1960s and re ...

Meet Okechukwu Ofili, the Nigerian writer who produced the books How Intellugence Kills and How Stupidity Saved My Life, as Sally speaks to him about how to turn failure into success, and what is his most important book to date, the Girl with the Magical Hair! Listen to #Pulse95R ...  Show more