US journalist, novelist, translator and professor Maureen Freely joins Georgina Godwin in the studio. She is best known as the translator of Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk’s work. Freely has also written ‘The Life of the Party’, set in Turkey, and ‘The Other Rebecca’, a contemporary take on Daphne du Maurier’s classic 1930s novel. Her latest book, ‘My Blue Peninsula’, is set in Istanbul, where she spent her childhood.

Francis Spufford on faith, fantasy and the craft of fiction
31:25

Luka Ivan Jukic on the enduring significance of Central Europe
30:53

Karen Dobres and pitch politics
38:48