Collected: The Podcast

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• #509: Daniel Hahn, award-winning translator, author and editor 20.06.2026 35мин

  Daniel Hahn discusses his latest book on translating Shakespeare, explains why books should be labelled if they're translated by AI and considers whether there's really such a thing as translator's block. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #508: John Aizlewood, music journalist and sports writer 06.06.2026 53мин

  Music journalist, rock biographer and sports writer John Aizlewood shares his insights into having tea with Peter Gabriel, travelling on Texas' tour bus and spending a year attending every game played by league one football club Stevenage accompanied by his teenage son. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #507: Hanif Kureishi, celebrated novelist, screenwriter and playwright 25.04.2026 36мин

  In this special interview, cult author and RLF beneficiary Hanif Kureishi tells Paul Dodgson about working with David Bowie, why he has given up listening to music except for one particular song, and how he has rebuilt his writing process after the fall that left him paralysed in 2022. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #506: Sara Shaarawi, playwright and producer 11.04.2026 47мин

  The Cairo-born scriptwriter joins host Ann Morgan to explore her accidental route into writing, what it means to speak English wrong, the challenges and opportunities of being a writer of migrant heritage and how she has blended Egypt and Scotland in her work. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #505: Hugo Williams, award-winning poet 29.03.2026 50мин

  The winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry joins host Julia Copus to discuss why he hardly reads novels, shifting literary fashions, building poems from snippets and growing up in a family of actors. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #504: Katharine Quarmby, novelist, journalist and non-fiction writer 15.03.2026 42мин

  The East Anglian writer tells Jonathan Tulloch what editing taught her about rejection and why ghosting is so damaging for writers. She also discusses investigating asbestos and hate speech, and discovering the spectres of places that used to exist through archival research. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #503: Pat Cumper MBE, playwright, producer, director and cultural commentator 01.03.2026 58мин

  Pat Cumper, the celebrated former artistic director of Talawa Theatre Company talks to fellow playwright Juliet Gilkes Romero about the survival of political theatre, her experience of racism at Cambridge University in the 1970s, adapting work by Toni Morrison and what it means to be in the writing zone. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #502: Emma John, journalist and memoirist 15.02.2026 48мин

  Emma John, chronicler of cricket, bluegrass music and singlehood, talks to presenter Paul Dodgson about creating a writing panic room, writing memoirs by accident and when it is acceptable to tweak facts in non-fiction. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #501: John Lewis-Stempel, celebrated nature writer and farmer 01.02.2026 53мин

  The celebrated nature writer and farmer delves into the Royal Literary Fund archive, reflecting on his singular creative processes, why rewilding may not always be a good thing and how he learnt to speak dog. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #500: Abigail Mann, comedy writer turned queen of erotic fiction 18.01.2026 52мин

  In her first conversation about her hotly anticipated new erotic novel Wet Ink, written under the pen name Abigail Avis, RLF Fellow Abigail Mann tells presenter Ann Morgan about the importance of portraying a diversity of experiences in sex scenes, the perils of the productivity mindset and the fear of combining writing and motherhood. Abigail will be writing a series of articles for Collected following the process of Wet Ink's publication this year. Follow her journey on the RLF's Substack: https://royalliteraryfund.substack.com  © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #499: Vanessa Collingridge, broadcaster and non-fiction writer 21.12.2025 41мин

  Collected's Caroline Sanderson is joined by author and broadcaster Vanessa Collingridge to discuss writing about neurodiversity, chronicling the adventures of her distant relative Captain Cook, tackling fake news and democratising knowledge, and a career that has spanned seven continents. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #498: Paula Hawkins, internationally bestselling novelist 07.12.2025 46мин

  International bestseller and RLF trustee Paula Hawkins joins Collected host Sonia Faleiro to reflect on her journey to success, how she deals with criticism, and the way each book comes to her differently. Paula's renowned thrillers include The Girl on the Train, A Slow Fire Burning and Into the Water. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #497: Satinder Chohan, playwright and dramastorian 23.11.2025 44мин

  Presenter Juliet Gilkes Romero is joined by playwright Satinder Chohan to discuss what it means to be a dramastorian, how telling more stories about the dark side of empire would improve our understanding of immigration, and how you balance writing and caring for family members. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #496: Elif Shafak, award-winning & international best-selling novelist, essayist and activist 09.11.2025 59мин

  Elif Shafak, the internationally acclaimed Turkish-British author of 21 books joins host Doug Johnstone on a deep dive into the RLF sound archive. Responding to other writers' observations, she reflects on her approach to structure, the role of activism in her writing, what it means to write a book that won't be read for 100 years, and her love of heavy metal music. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #495: Matt Carr, fiction and non-fiction writer, journalist and podcaster 25.10.2025 48мин

  Presenter Paul Dodgson is joined by Matt Carr, whose wide-ranging curiosity has led him to write books on topics as diverse as the history of terrorism, the conquest of Patagonia and Charles Darwin. As a lifelong Hispanophile, Matt also writes fiction and nonfiction often focused on themes from Spanish and Latin American culture, history, and politics. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #494: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, author and genocide survivor 11.10.2025 58мин

  French-Rwandan writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse joins host Sonia Faleiro and responds to clips from the RLF archives, using them as ways into her creative process. This moving discussion, which features frank descriptions of violence, reveals how the will to survive can inspire storytelling, the importance of sharing survivors' accounts, and how this can build fellowship and community in the wake of profound trauma. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #493: Ian Seed, translator, short-story writer and prose poet 27.09.2025 44мин

  Host Jonathan Tulloch is joined by award-winning poet, translator, short-story writer, essayist and editor Ian Seed, to explore what makes a prose poem, how translating can influence writing and the power of redrafting. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #492: Blake Morrison, poet, memoirist and critic 13.09.2025 45мин

  Blake Morrison joins Julia Copus to respond to material from the RLF archives, and reflect on his work and process. They discuss how he grew into being more confessional in his writing, how he encourages students to overcome their fears when writing memoir and how he has come to write in such an extraordinary range of genres. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #491: Marianne Colbran, TV scriptwriter turned criminologist 30.08.2025 47мин

  Presenter Doug Johnstone is joined by Marianne Colbran, whose work explores how media presentations of crime and the police differ from reality. They discuss finding your voice in academic writing, the pressures of TV writers' rooms and how an unexpected stint as a magazine sex expert launched Marianne's writing career. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk
• #490: Pragya Agarwal, behavioural and data scientist, and founder of The 50 Percent Project 16.08.2025 48мин

  Academic Pragya Agarwal joins host Sonia Faleiro on a deep dive into the Royal Literary Fund archives, using the recordings to reflect on her work drawing attention to the spaces where women have been rendered invisible, the role that science writing can play in combatting climate change and the inequalities embedded in the publishing industry. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk