Backlisted

A timely revisit of our 2022 Christmas special which celebrates  [Ballet Shoes] (https://u... more

Writer and critic Matthew De Abaitua joins Andy, Una and Nicky to discuss Last and First M... more

Something a little different this week. Andy, Una and Nicky discuss the novel Transit by R... more

For this year's Halloween episode, we take a windswept walk across the Yorkshire moors wit... more

To honour the life of Jilly Cooper, we are replaying this joyous episode from 2019 with a ... more

Writer Jason Hazeley joins Andy, Una and Nicky for a celebratory investigation - or invest... more

Emmy Award-winning writer David Quantick (Veep, The Thick of It) joins Andy and Una for a ... more

Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan (1971), the second Earthsea novel, is the subject o... more

Leonora Carrington's charming and surreal novel The Hearing Trumpet (1976, probably) is th... more

Dave Haslam and Melanie Williams join us to discuss A Taste of Honey (1958), Shelagh Delan... more

The writer Alan Moore is the subject of this long-awaited episode. Joining Andy and Una is... more

Angel (1957) by the English writer Elizabeth Taylor, is the subject of this special episod... more

Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them (1948) is the subject of this episode, ... more

Books we think you might enjoy on a plane, by the pool or in the park. Andy, Nicky and our... more

The wonderful Nina Stibbe, award-winning novelist and diarist, joins us for a discussion o... more

To discuss The Image of Her (1966) by Simone de Beauvoir we are joined by writer and trans... more