December 23

This month, we’re out on the marsh - exposed beneath the fleeting February sky. Wading birds chatter and forage around us as we note the names of grasses, and hunt for sea beet and will o' the wisps. Silver fish slip through the shallows, and as we get closer to the sea a song of ...  عرض المزيد

For January’s episode, the first of 2026, Alice Boyd meets artist, illustrator and curator Tabby Booth at her studio in Falmouth, Cornwall. They talk outsider art, re-connecting with your creativity and retreating into the cave - meanwhile meeting Raisin, Tabby's rescue pigeon. F ...  عرض المزيد

Dr Seuss' fable of needless consumerism and environmental ruin, The Lorax, is half a century old this year. The 'shortish, brownish, oldish and mossy' character who 'speaks for the trees' increasingly features on placards at demos. Michael Rosen looks at the book's influence on t ...  عرض المزيد

For March, Jaclyn and Kendra, with special guest Winnie Loo, talk about women writers from Australia and the surrounding archipelago! Find a full version of the show for this episode on our website. Use code READINGWOMEN15 to get 15% off your purchase in our Reading Women Store.  ...  عرض المزيد

Great Britain’s Regency Era (1811–1820) has long been wildly popular as a subject of historical fiction yet overly focused on the romance genre. The towering figures of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer have tended to dominate the field to the point where even novels that are not p ...  عرض المزيد

The show takes a spooky turn as we go on a ghost hunt through the natural world. Sebastian shares his adventures finding fossils – the traces of animals that once lived, and Rutendo talks about her experiences in The Cradle of Humankind, the South African UNESCO World Heritage si ...  عرض المزيد