Line by Line

Our guests this week are Chief theatre critic at The Guardian and author of Consumed, Arifa Akbar, and New Yorker writer, Ed Caesar, who recently published The Moth and the Mountain. If you would like the read the extracts discussed in this episode go to linebyline.substack.com. Comments and feedback to @tds153 on Twitter. Line by Line is produced by Ben Tulloh with readings by Deli Segal. Music by Dee Yan-Key. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guests this week are Ellah Wakatama, chair of the Caine Prize for African writing and Editor-at-large for Canongate Books and the critic John Self, who writes about books on his own blog Asylum, as well a broad variety of newspapers and radio programmes. If you would like the read the extracts discussed in this episode go to linebyline.substack.com. Comments and feedback to @tds153 on Twitter. Line by Line is produced by Ben Tulloh with readings by Deli Segal. Music by Dee Yan-Key. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guests for this food-related episode are the author and chef Nigella Lawson, whose most recent book is Cook, Eat, Repeat and the award-winning novelist Aminatta Forna, author of Happiness and, most recently, a collection of essays called Window Seat. If you would like the read the extracts discussed in this episode go to linebyline.substack.com. Comments and feedback to @tds153 on Twitter. Line by Line is produced by Ben Tulloh with readings by Deli Segal. Music by Dee Yan-Key. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guests for this episode are Sathnam Sanghera, a British journalist and author of EmpireLand: How Modern Britain is Shaped by its Imperial Past and Linda Grant, the Orange Prize for Fiction winning novelist whose latest book A Stranger City, was published in 2019. If you would like the read the extracts discussed in this episode go to linebyline.substack.com. Comments and feedback to @tds153 on Twitter. Line by Line is produced by Ben Tulloh with readings by Deli Segal. Music by Dee Yan-Key. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guests for this episode are Gill Hornby, author of The Hive and the number one bestseller Miss Austen and David Baddiel, comedian, writer and author, most recently, of Jews Don’t Count. If you would like the read the extracts discussed in this episode go to linebyline.substack.com. Comments and feedback to @tds153 on Twitter. Line by Line is produced by Ben Tulloh with readings by Deli Segal. Music by Dee Yan-Key. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guests for this episode are Naomi Alderman, author of The Power, winner of the 2017 Bailey’s Women’s Prize For Fiction, and Philip Hensher, whose most recent novel is A Small Revolution in Germany. If you would like to read the extracts discussed in this episode go to https://linebyline.substack.com Twitter: @tds153 Line by Line is produced by Ben Tulloh with readings by Deli Segal. Music by Dee Yan-Key Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A conversation about beginnings with Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch and winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for her short story Grace Jones, and Helen Lewis, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of Difficult Women. If you would like to read the extracts discussed in this episode go to: https://linebyline.substack.com Twitter: @tds153 @IrenosenOkojie @helenlewis Line by Line is produced by Ben Tulloh with readings by Deli Segal. Music by Dee Yan-Key Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.