One Britain?s best loved writers, Fay Weldon has written over twenty novels to date including Down Among the Women, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, The Hearts and Lives of Men, Worst Fears and Big Women, a fictional account of feminism over the past 25 years. Weldon is also a prolific writer...

Michael Kustow is a theatre and film producer and writer. He has had a wide-ranging career in the arts as Associate Director of both The National Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company, as Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the first Arts Commissioning Editor for Channel 4...

Hugely popular Observer columnist Phil Hogan reads from his first novel Hitting the Groove which has just been published by Little Brown. Hitting the Groove explores the treacherous terrain of friendship, marriage, staying out late and flirting with disaster. <br><i>Yoko eventually...

Jean Baudrillard is one of France1s leading intellectuals. The foundation of Baudrillard1s philosophy is the criticism of traditional, critical scientific thinking, replacing reality with the illusion of truth. We live in an illusion, the radical illusion, where things are exactly what they...

Lawrence McKeown, a former IRA hunger-striker who spent 72 days without food, is joined in discussion by a panel of political commentators to commemorate the 20th anniversary on the H-Block Hunger Strike of 1981. McKeown is also an acclaimed writer whose own story is recounted in the book Nor...