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Drama of the WeekBlue CircleTwo days after the worst break-up of her life, a council registrar has to officiate a wedding. A wedding unlike any she's ever been to.An original short story for radio by Charlotte Runcie, author of Salt on Your Tongue: Women and the Sea, and of a new novel, Bring the House Down.Writer: Charlotte Runcie
Reader: Bettrys Jones
Producer: Mair BosworthA BBC Audio Bristol production for BBC Radio 42025-05-0214 min
The Burnout Rebellion PodcastThe Ocean's Thread: Talking memory, identity, and the sea with Sarah RobertsonThe moon tells the sky The sky tells the sea The sea tells the tide And the tide tells me.~Lemn Sissay, Let the Light Pour in.I have been listening to this podcast episode all week. Every time it brings something new. Sarah Robertson is one of the kindest souls, and through her work her soul sings. If this is your first time meeting Sarah, I am so excited for you, she is super inspiring. I first came across Sarah when she launched her Kickstarter programme, where she...2025-04-251h 15
Badii TalkWild Sauna on Edinburgh’s Seaside: Soul Water Sauna ReviewWe’re reviewing a wild sauna on Portobello Beach. Edinburgh, Scotland’s seaside. We’re joined by resident of Portobello, Edinburgh, Angie Spoto. Angie is an esteemed author who writes gothic fantasy deeply inspired by the Scottish coastline. Most recently, she’s published The Bone Diver, a novel inspired by the selkies of Scottish folklore.You’re not just going to hear a review of our sauna experience though. You’ll also learn a bit about the history of bathing in the UK and what makes a sauna a Finnish sauna. In this episode:- Badii’s r...2025-02-1539 min
In HasteWhat keeps you writing?It's a bonus episode! Authors Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie reflect on the first season of In Haste literary conversations, and, as always, discuss how their own writing is going.So far in 2024 we've been thinking about what stops authors from writing and what keeps them coming back to the page. In this special extra episode, Alice and Charlotte talk about how their own writing is fitting into their lives right now, and what they've learned.In Haste is produced by Holly Fisher for Hasty Productions, with original music by Maria Chiara Argiró and graphic d...2024-05-0726 min
In HasteHow should a book sound? with Caleb Azumah NelsonHow can a musical soundscape shape a novel?For the final episode in this first season of In Haste literary conversations, authors Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie meet novelist Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water (which won the Costa Book Award) and Small Worlds, to discuss his writing process, as well as faith, love stories, and the importance of place. Plus, Alice and Charlotte talk about how music influences their writing.This episode is made in partnership with Backstory, the new books magazine from the independent South London bookshop. To get your copy of...2024-04-2341 min
In HasteHow true is fiction? with Eliza ClarkWhy does it make us so uncomfortable when fiction feels like real life?Authors Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie meet Eliza Clark, author of the gloriously dark and unforgettable novels Penance and Boy Parts, and a member of Granta's most recent selection of best young British novelists. Eliza takes us through a sharp and candid discussion about the publishing industry, authorial voice and veracity in fiction, writing about dark themes, and what happens when your book goes viral on TikTok.Plus, as always, Alice and Charlotte discuss how their own writing is going....2024-04-1634 min
In HasteHow do you grow a book? with Fiona WilliamsHow does the natural world around us shape who we are?Authors Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie have both found themselves drawn to writing about landscapes. Today they’re joined by the debut novelist Fiona Williams, author of The House of Broken Bricks, for a warm and inspiring discussion about Fiona's own relationship with books, gardens, food, and finding a sense of home in nature.The House of Broken Bricks is an immersive story of a family with twin boys, who are both of dual heritage, but who look strikingly different from one another. They al...2024-04-0926 min
In HasteCan stories help us reclaim trauma? with Emilia HartHow does fiction explore deep-rooted sources of pain through history?Today in the In Haste writing hut, Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie are joined by the international bestselling novelist Emilia Hart, author of Weyward.Weyward is an unforgettable supernatural story about witches, but it’s also about something all too real: the suffering and violence inflicted on women across history. It's a powerful and inspiring reclaiming of a historical narrative we think we know. We hear how Emilia came to write the novel, which was a remarkable process in strange times.Please note th...2024-04-0229 min
In HasteIs writing real life? with Cathy RentzenbrinkHow does reading and writing change you?Joining Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie this week is the author Cathy Rentzenbrink, who doesn’t like being described as an “acclaimed memoirist”, and would rather we described her as an “honest puzzler” - or something even less kind.But she has, in fact, written many excellent memoirs and novels, and there’s no getting around it. Her clear-eyed, truth-filled writing tackles subjects including profound grief, as well as her own very personal relationship with books and reading. In today’s conversation, we discuss the strange otherworldliness of writing, and h...2024-03-2631 min
In HasteWhat if writing is about waiting? with Rowan Hisayo BuchananCan books make us more patient?In Haste is back! This week, writers Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie speak to Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of three beautiful novels (The Sleep Watcher, Starling Days, and Harmless Like You) about teaching writing, learning about writing, whether writers tend to be dog people or cat people, and patience.“There are some writers I see who write something, and it isn’t quite what they imagined, and so they throw it out, and they write something new. They’re not able to sit with the discomfort of it not being...2024-03-1933 min
In HasteHow can fantasy change your reality? with Sunyi DeanWhat’s the relationship between fantasy literature and real life?Writers Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie speak to Sunyi Dean, author of the bestselling novel The Book Eaters, and co-host of the excellent Publishing Rodeo podcast.Sunyi discusses how she came to write the book and what was going on in her life at the time, as well as her somewhat stormy publication journey, in an episode that also touches on what makes us readers of fantasy — and what makes us think of ourselves as fantasy readers.Each episode of In Haste is acco...2024-03-0530 min
In HasteHow deep can a short story go? with Thomas MorrisHow do you expose emotion through writing?Writers Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie speak to Thomas Morris, whose short story suite, Open Up, was among the most widely admired literary publications of 2023.Thomas Morris is a Welsh writer who is the former editor of Stinging Fly and has been named as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. In this episode, he talks about writing masculinity and articulating emotions, going further into a story and the pursuit of “knowing more”, and the strange lives of seahorses. Thomas also shares how reading defines his work as a w...2024-02-2731 min
In HasteWhat's it like to be a debut author? with Jennie GodfreyWriters Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie meet Jennie Godfrey, debut novelist and author of The List of Suspicious things.Jennie discusses how she wrote her novel, which has garnered a huge amount of buzz in the British publishing industry and beyond, and which has themes that draw on Jennie’s own childhood experiences growing up in Yorkshire during the strange and troubling time when the Yorkshire Ripper was at large. Alice and Charlotte share their own journeys to publication - from the rocky to the dreamlike - as well as speaking to Jennie about writing inspiration, crime fi...2024-02-2032 min
In HasteShould you write on holiday? with Sophie MackintoshCan a writer ever meaningfully take a break? And what’s it like to get the call saying you’ve been longlisted for the Booker Prize?Today on In Haste, writers Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie are joined by the novelist Sophie Mackintosh. Sophie is the Booker-longlisted author of The Water Cure, Blue Ticket, and Cursed Bread, and was named one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists of 2023.Sophie takes us behind the scenes into her writing process and life as an author, including discussing the myths and folk tales where she finds literary inspiration. Alic...2024-02-1329 min
In HasteWhy don't we have enough time? with Oliver BurkemanYou’d write a great book if only you had the time. Well, there are all sort of things we’d do if we had enough time. But what if you never have enough time? Would you try, anyway? What if, in fact, right now is the most time you’ll ever have?In this episode of In Haste, authors Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie speak to Oliver Burkeman, the journalist and internationally bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals.Oliver joins Alice and Charlotte in the writing hut to discuss how author...2024-02-0632 min
In HasteCan your diary be a bestseller? with Amy LiptrotIt sounds like a dream: you write a diary, and one day it suddenly becomes a prize-winning Sunday Times Bestseller. It worked for Amy Liptrot. Could it work for us, too?This is episode one of In Haste, with authors Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie in conversation with Amy Liptrot. Amy is the author of two exquisite and prize-winning memoirs that have resonated with readers across the world: The Outrun and The Instant. The Outrun, Amy's account of her recovery from addiction while immersed in the vivid natural landscape of her native Orkney, has just been made...2024-01-3032 min
In HasteOh look, a podcast!In Haste is a new podcast about how great books really get written, from writers Alice Vincent and Charlotte Runcie. We’ll be asking award-winning and bestselling authors how they write, what gets in their way, how they overcome that, and what keeps them going. The first episode is released Tuesday January 30th, 2024.Subscribe to catch the first episode when it launches. Our first guest is the wonderful Amy Liptrot, who’ll be discussing her books The Instant and The Outrun – which has just been made into a film starring Saoirse Ronan. We’ll also be findin...2024-01-1602 min
Arts & IdeasPiratesFrom the Pirates of Penzance and Captain Hook, to Ottoman corsairs, Henry Avery, Mary Read and Lady Killigrew: Anne McElvoy is joined by New Generation Thinkers Michael Talbot and Joan Passey, and by Robert Blyth, Senior Curator of World and Maritime History, Royal Museums Greenwich, who is also one of the co-curators of Pirates at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall.Producer: Harry ParkerPirates runs at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall from April to December and then moves in 2025 to Royal Museums GreenwichOther conversations in the Free Thinking archives available on the...2023-04-1145 min
Natalia Slow CafeMoje ukochane książki z 2021 roku - Czuła przewodniczka, Rzeczy osobiste, Trylogia zimowej nocyOpowiadam o moich ukochanych książkach przeczytanych w 2021 roku. Mówię o książkach: seria Jeżycjada Małgorzata Musierowicz, Czuła przewodniczka Natalia de Barbaro, Szymborska. Znaki szczególne Joanna Gromek-Illg, Rzeczy osobiste. Opowieść o ubraniach w obozach koncentracyjnych i zagłady Karolina Sulej, Trylogia zimowej nocy Katherine Arden, Pieśń ziemi. Rdzenna mądrość, wiedza naukowa i lekcje płynące z natury Robin Wall Kimmerer, Cukry Dorota Kotas, Wyspa kobiet morza Lisa See, W ustach sól Charlotte Runcie, Gdzie śpiewają raki Delia Owens.Kontakt: nataliaslowcafe@gmail.com2022-02-2055 min
Download New Full Audiobooks in Romance, HistoricalThe Elizabeth Gaskell Collection: A BBC Drama collection including North and South, Wives and Daughters & more by Steve Wakelam, Jenny UglowPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection: A BBC Drama collection including North and South, Wives and Daughters & more Author: Steve Wakelam, Jenny Uglow, Amanda Vickery, Barry Campbell, Elizabeth Gaskell Narrator: Emily Mortimer, Jodie Comer, Kenneth Cranham, Rebecca Front, Paul Copley, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Sue Johnston, David Threlfall, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 21, 2021 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: A collection of BBC Radio dramatisations of Elizabeth Gaskell's well loved novels - plus bonus material Elizabeth Gaskell was one of Victorian England's pre-eminent female novelists. Admired by Charles...2021-10-2105 min
Download New Full Audiobooks in Romance, HistoricalThe Elizabeth Gaskell Collection: A BBC Drama collection including North and South, Wives and Daughters & more by Steve Wakelam, Jenny Uglow, Amanda Vickery, Barry Campbell, Elizabeth GaskellPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530101to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection: A BBC Drama collection including North and South, Wives and Daughters & more
Author: Steve Wakelam, Jenny Uglow, Amanda Vickery, Barry Campbell, Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrator: Emily Mortimer, Jodie Comer, Kenneth Cranham, Rebecca Front, Paul Copley, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Sue Johnston, David Threlfall, Full Cast
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 23 hours 20 minutes
Release date: October 21, 2021
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A collection of BBC Radio dramatisations of Elizabeth Gaskell's well loved novels - plus bonus material Elizabeth Gaskell was one of Victorian England's pre-eminent female novelists. Admired by Charles Dickens...2021-10-2111h 20
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaThe Elizabeth Gaskell Collection: A BBC Drama collection including North and South, Wives and Daughters & more by Steve Wakelam, Jenny UglowPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection: A BBC Drama collection including North and South, Wives and Daughters & more Author: Steve Wakelam, Jenny Uglow, Amanda Vickery, Barry Campbell, Elizabeth Gaskell Narrator: Rebecca Front, Paul Copley, Sue Johnston, David Threlfall, Full Cast, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Jodie Comer, Kenneth Cranham, Emily Mortimer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 21, 2021 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A collection of BBC Radio dramatisations of Elizabeth Gaskell's well loved novels - plus bonus material Elizabeth Gaskell was one of Victorian England's pre-eminent female novelists. Admired by Charles...2021-10-2105 min
Find Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary WomenThe Elizabeth Gaskell Collection: A BBC Drama collection including North and South, Wives and Daughters & more by Steve Wakelam, Jenny UglowPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530101 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection: A BBC Drama collection including North and South, Wives and Daughters & more Author: Steve Wakelam, Jenny Uglow, Amanda Vickery, Barry Campbell, Elizabeth Gaskell Narrator: Emily Mortimer, Jodie Comer, Kenneth Cranham, Rebecca Front, Paul Copley, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Sue Johnston, David Threlfall, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 21, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A collection of BBC Radio dramatisations of Elizabeth Gaskell's well loved novels - plus bonus material Elizabeth Gaskell was one of Victorian England's pre-eminent female novelists. Admired by...2021-10-2105 min
Making a Splash with Amber ButchartNell Frizzell - Making a SplashThis week, I dive into the literature of swimming with journalist, author and Vogue columnist Nell Frizzell. Nell worked for a while as a lifeguard at the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond, which she wrote about for the Daunt books anthology, At the Pond, and she has written numerous articles about the joys of swimming outdoors. Her second book, The Panic Years, with an accompanying podcast, was out earlier this year. Stay tuned as we discuss writing and reading about swimming, water rituals, the most unlikely creatures spotted in the Hampstead Ponds and why Lord Byron would be the...2021-08-0545 min
Love your libraryMini episode 5 | Stephen Moss interviewThis mini episode features an interview with Stephen Moss talking about his new book The Accidental Countryside Hidden Havens for Britain’s Wildlife. Stephen’s book takes a journey of discovery through Britain, in search of the unexpected corners where wildlife survives against all odds. In the interview he talks about his childhood introduction to wildlife on the edges of the urban landscape as well as why these hidden nature havens can seem more inclusive and less excluding than other more traditional nature reserves.
Stephen is a naturalist, author and broadcaster: in a distinguished career at the BBC...2020-05-2017 min
A Poem A Day from Sudhanva#20. Knowing | Somaya Al SusiTranslated by Charlotte Runcie.A Poem A Day by Sudhanva Deshpande.Read on April 15, 2020.Art by Virkein Dhar.2020-04-1802 min
Persistent and NastyEpisode 47 - Jessica HardwickIn today’s episode Elaine chats to Scottish actress and photographer Jessica Hardwick. Jess should have been at Pitlochry Theatre then on to The Lyceum Theatre in Barefoot in The Park playing Corie. However, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and no gatherings of more than 2 people this production has had to be cancelled for the moment. Here is hoping they can remount soon.
Jessica graduated from the BA Acting course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Since graduating she went on to win the Billy McColl Award for Most Promising Newcomer in Scottish Stage Acting 2014 and won Best Female pe...2020-03-271h 08
The Book Club ReviewBee's Bookshare InterviewA book club for people who don't like the idea of all having to read the same book. At Bee's Bookshare everyone brings a book they’ve loved, loathed, can’t put down or can’t get into and shares them – best of all everyone gets to take away a new read at the end. We met up with Bryony Bishop, founder of Bee’s Bookshare, to find out more. • Books mentioned: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Norwegian Wood by Lars Mytting Stoner by John Williams God Help th...2019-11-1016 minArts & IdeasSea GoingsConceptual artist Katie Paterson on art which produces candles scented with planetary odours – one of Saturn's moons has a hint of cherry…and how she and co-exhibitor the Romantic painter JMW Turner share an interest in the precise nature of moon light. Writers Julia Blackburn and Charlotte Runcie on the gaze of the beachcomber and searching for lost worlds along the tideline and Cutty Sark curator Hannah Stockton explains why the story of the famous tea cutter is one of survival. A place that exists only in moonlight: Katie Paterson & JMW Turner at Turner Contemporary Margate until May...2019-01-3151 min
Standard Issue PodcastSIM Ep 183 Pod 62: Patti Smith, armchair critics, and the seaNew week, new podcast and we've another treat for your earballs here. Mickey talks to music mega-mind Liz Buckley about the glorious Patti Smith, Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch talks when armchair criticism goes to far, and Jen chats to journalist Charlotte Runcie about her debut book Salt On Your Tongue: Women and The Sea. Plus there's the Australian Open in Jenny Off The Blocks and #DunleavyDoesDisney goes to Utopia, sorry Zootopia. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about you...2019-01-161h 00