Wigtown Book Festival

Episode 32: Award Winners

Maggie O'Farrell & Dara McAnulty

In the first podcast of edited highlights from this year's Wigtown Book Festival we feature two award winning authors whose very different books look at our interconnected lives.

Episode 31: Word Perfect

Susie Dent talks to Jessica Fox

On this episode Jessica Fox speaks to etymologist and lexicographer Susie Dent ahead of the publication of her new book Word Perfect, a brilliant linguistic almanac full of unforgettable true stories tied to every day of the year.

Festival 2020 Day 11

Wilde at Heart with Matthew Sturgis and Sally Rees

This episode continues our celebration of the legendary Oscar Wilde with Matthew Sturgis, the author of acclaimed biography Oscar: A Life, and Sally Rees, a teacher and festivals organiser in Enniskillen who offers her unique insights into the world of Wilde.

Festival 2020 Day 10

Wilde at Heart with Rupert Everett

On this episode we feature actor, director and author Rupert Everett for a very special chat with Wigtown favourite Lee Randall.

Festival 2020 Day 9

Featherston Book Town

On today's episode we're teaming up with our sister book town, Featherston, to celebrate all things New Zealand.

Festival 2020 Day 8

Alycia Pirmohamed and Luis Sagasti

Claire Urquhart and Marjorie Lotfi Gill from shared reading charity Open Book present the second of their two Wigtown Book Festival takeovers.

Festival 2020 Day 7

Year of Coasts and Waters Part II

The second of two episodes dedicated to Scotland's Year of Coast and Waters.

Festival 2020 Day 6

Robyn Marsack and Yvonne Ridley

Today we are joined by Robyn Marsack to discuss Scotland's first Makar Edwin Morgan and Yvonne Ridley gives us a taste of her time-travelling YA adventure The Caledonians: Mr Petrie's Apprentice.

Festival 2020 Day 5: Reading 'Pigeon' and 'Meditation While Plaiting My Hair' with Open Book

Marjorie Lotfi Gill and Claire Urquhart

Marjorie Lotfi Gill and Claire Urquhart from Open Book join us with some poetry readings.

Festival 2020 Day 4: Year of Coasts and Waters Part 1

Vicky Allan and Anna Deacon

The first of two episodes dedicated to the Year of Coast and Waters.

Festival 2020 Day 3: Libraries of the Future and The Unheard

Katie Paterson and Stuart McLean

We talk to the people behind The Future Library and The Dark Outside projects.

Festival 2020 Day 2: The Whole Hogg

Valentina Bold, James Robertson and Graeme Macrae Burnet

This year, 2020, is the 250th anniversary of the birth of the remarkable Scottish author James Hogg.

Episode 20: A writer and an artist meet in Wigtown

Astrid Jaekel and Ken Ilgunas

This episode has a distinctive Wigtown theme as we feature Astrid Jaekel and Ken Ilgunas, a married couple who met at the Festival.

Episode 19: Liberating change

Dean Atta and Sam Baker

This week’s episode features two authors who have recently moved to Scotland, and whose very different books are united in looking at the potentially liberating possibilities of change in our lives.

Episode 18: Reading dangerously

Peggy Hughes sits down with Andy Miller, one of the hosts of Backlisted podcast and author of 'The Year of Reading Dangerously'.

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