Diana Athill talks to Mariella Frostrup, Lee Child is observed at work, and the programme hears from three writers attempting to complete a novel in a month. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC One Northern Ireland HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Northern Ireland HD
Sixty-year-old Shirley sets out on an epic journey to row 3,000 miles unsupported across the Atlantic Ocean while her sister, Evelyn, battles a rare incurable cancer back home in Northern Ireland. Show more
Philip Dodd and guests debate the question 'does France have to stop being French to survive?'. With Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, Elizabeth Buettner, Ziauddin Sardar and Andy Martin. Show more
Presented by Anne McElvoy. With King Charles III writer Mike Bartlett, Michel Houellebecq's novel Soumission, Hans Fallada's prison diary, and artists Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson. Show more
