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Welcome to our fortnightly podcast, where we delve into the vibrant world of contemporary writers and the literary life they lead. Offering a deeper and more nuanced perspective on the writing journey, we go beyond the surface often presented in the media.This season, we're thrilled to feature an exceptional lineup of special guests, including best-selling author and Women's Prize founder Kate Mosse, poet and artist Ella Frears, Royal Court Associate Playwright Ishy Din, WritersMosaic Director Colin Grant, and the award-winning author Deepa Anappara. Plus, enjoy extracts from our archive, showcasing our writers reflecting on their creative processes.Join us for honest and heartfelt discussions about the triumphs and challenges of putting words to the page. Whether you're a reader, writer, or simply curious about the art of storytelling, find solidarity, and inspiration with the Royal Literary Fund's Collected podcast.© 2025. All rights reserved. Charity No: 219952
Royal Literary Fund hosts Collected: The Podcast, a arts show with 38 episodes published.
The author of Read Yourself Happy joins host Ann Morgan to discuss the National Year of Reading and how spending time with books can help ease anxiety, as well as her new novel, All Grown Up, a modern-day retelling of Li
The author of Read Yourself Happy joins host Ann Morgan to discuss the National Year of Reading and how spending time with books can help ease anxiety, as well as her new novel, All Grown Up, a modern-day retelling of Li
In this special episode to mark the centenary of Winnie-the-Pooh, comic strip artist and author Sally Kindberg and host Jonathan Tulloch explore the legacy of AA Milne, and discuss Kindberg's experiences as an accidental
In this special episode to mark the centenary of Winnie-the-Pooh, comic strip artist and author Sally Kindberg and host Jonathan Tulloch explore the legacy of AA Milne, and discuss Kindberg's experiences as an accidental
Daniel Hahn discusses his latest book on translating Shakespeare, explains why books should be labelled if they're translated by AI and considers whether there's really such a thing as translator's block. © Royal Literar
Music journalist, rock biographer and sports writer John Aizlewood shares his insights into having tea with Peter Gabriel, travelling on Texas' tour bus and spending a year attending every game played by league one footb
In this special interview, cult author and RLF beneficiary Hanif Kureishi tells Paul Dodgson about working with David Bowie, why he has given up listening to music except for one particular song, and how he has rebuilt h
The Cairo-born scriptwriter joins host Ann Morgan to explore her accidental route into writing, what it means to speak English wrong, the challenges and opportunities of being a writer of migrant heritage and how she has
The winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry joins host Julia Copus to discuss why he hardly reads novels, shifting literary fashions, building poems from snippets and growing up in a family o
The East Anglian writer tells Jonathan Tulloch what editing taught her about rejection and why ghosting is so damaging for writers. She also discusses investigating asbestos and hate speech, and discovering the spectres
Pat Cumper, the celebrated former artistic director of Talawa Theatre Company talks to fellow playwright Juliet Gilkes Romero about the survival of political theatre, her experience of racism at Cambridge University in t
Emma John, chronicler of cricket, bluegrass music and singlehood, talks to presenter Paul Dodgson about creating a writing panic room, writing memoirs by accident and when it is acceptable to tweak facts in non-fiction.
The celebrated nature writer and farmer delves into the Royal Literary Fund archive, reflecting on his singular creative processes, why rewilding may not always be a good thing and how he learnt to speak dog. © Royal Lit
In her first conversation about her hotly anticipated new erotic novel Wet Ink, written under the pen name Abigail Avis, RLF Fellow Abigail Mann tells presenter Ann Morgan about the importance of portraying a diversity o
Collected's Caroline Sanderson is joined by author and broadcaster Vanessa Collingridge to discuss writing about neurodiversity, chronicling the adventures of her distant relative Captain Cook, tackling fake news and dem
International bestseller and RLF trustee Paula Hawkins joins Collected host Sonia Faleiro to reflect on her journey to success, how she deals with criticism, and the way each book comes to her differently. Paula's renown
Presenter Juliet Gilkes Romero is joined by playwright Satinder Chohan to discuss what it means to be a dramastorian, how telling more stories about the dark side of empire would improve our understanding of immigration,
Elif Shafak, the internationally acclaimed Turkish-British author of 21 books joins host Doug Johnstone on a deep dive into the RLF sound archive. Responding to other writers' observations, she reflects on her approach t
Presenter Paul Dodgson is joined by Matt Carr, whose wide-ranging curiosity has led him to write books on topics as diverse as the history of terrorism, the conquest of Patagonia and Charles Darwin. As a lifelong Hispano
French-Rwandan writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse joins host Sonia Faleiro and responds to clips from the RLF archives, using them as ways into her creative process. This moving discussion, which features frank descriptions
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