Backstage with Eileen AtkinsHow does the writing we love create the roles we perform?Join Dame Eileen Atkins, stage and TV star, three-time Olivier Aw...

Donna Coonan is Editorial Director of the Virago Modern Classics list, which was set up 1978 to demonstrate the existence of a necessary canon of wome...

How do you say ‘Me Too’ in Chinese – when it’s banned on social media?吕频 Lü Pin, Chinese feminist activist featured in Awakening by Rachel Vogelstein ...

How do we get through the difficult days?Susie Boyt, author and theatre director, got through the pandemic by walking for miles listening to poetry po...

How can we find light in the dark?Oceanographer, marine biologist and author of Below the Edge of Darkness, Edie Widder’s life has been as fascinating...

Is writing a muscle? Kamila Shamsie, prize winning novelist, fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Granta Best of Young British author, talks ...

Can solitude be a source of inspiration?In this bonus episode, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson talks to Lucy Scholes about her latest...

Who is your feminism for?Austin Channing Brown was named by parents who deliberately wanted people to presume their daughter was a white man when appl...

What can we learn from African women’s movements?If you knew about the women who fought a freedom war in 1914 Nigeria, would it alter your view of fem...

Would you become a surrogate mother?Publishing her first novel over the age of fifty, Susan Spindler writes brilliantly about post-menopausal life in ...