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Journeys to the Grave
Five more writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.
Tracy Chevalier on Thomas Hardy
Series 2. Five writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.
Helen Mort on Sylvia Plath
Brandon Taylor on Langston Hughes
Geoff Dyer on DH Lawrence
Black Country Secrets
Liz Berry on Gorge Road, Sedgley
Writers choose a Black Country scene to reveal something of this strangely hidden region.
Emma Purshouse on St Bart’s Church, Wednesbury.
Brendan Hawthorne on Toll End Road, Tipton
R.M. Francis on Wren’s Nest, Dudley
Roy McFarlane on Bilston
Another Northern Ireland
Traybakes
Author Jan Carson on the women who kept her church supplied with tea and traybakes
Searching with Shorelines
Poet Gail McConnell on the inspiration of the sea in Louis MacNeice's work and her own.
The Art of Staying
Poet Míchéal McCann navigates the careful etiquette of a rural Northern Irish wake.
Chalk on the Wall
Writer Claire Mitchell peels back the layers of her hometown to find a radical history.
Euphoria
Novelist Glenn Patterson on Belfast's hairdressers and clothes shops during the Troubles.
1. Susannah Dickey: Two Pills
Poet and novelist Susannah Dickey assumes a new identity at a local pharmacy.
2. Nandi Jola: Neither Here Nor There
Nandi Jola finds some surprising connections between Africa and Northern Ireland.
3. Nick Laird: Animal Life
Nick Laird wonders if his children are missing out on the rural upbringing he enjoyed.
4. Darran Anderson: Map Making
Darran Anderson draws an alternative map of Ulster for his young son.
5. Bernie McGill: Our Art
During the Troubles, Bernie McGill was often told to be careful about what she said.
Controversies: American Writing of the 1960s
William Styron
Should a white man write about a black revolutionary?
Amiri Baraka
How poet and playwright Amiri Baraka cancelled himself in a single public appearance.
Norman Mailer
Michael Goldfarb looks at how Norman Mailer's misogyny eventually caught up with him.
Philip Roth
How Philip Roth's writing alienated him from the Jewish community in America.
Joan Williams
Novelist Joan Williams, after a promising start, just disappeared. Why?
Five Cellos: Lost and Found
The Soul of Music
Kate Kennedy reflects on her quest to find Pal Hermann's cello, and his soul.
The Bee Cello
The story of an abandoned cello that a physicist has filled with 400,000 bees.
The Auschwitz Cello
How the cellist of Auschwitz, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch's life was saved by her cello.
The Shipwrecked Cello
The unlikely story of the reconstruction of the 'Mara' Stradivarius.
The Flat-Pack Cello
Kate Kennedy reflects on a reimagined cello whose story is yet to begin.
Highland Tails
The Reindeer
An Essay and reflection in poetry on the reintroduction of wild animals into the Highlands
