About This Episode
<p>Live from Hay, celebrating reading and writing in many different forms, Samira is joined on stage by Jack Thorne - multi-award-winning screenwriter of the TV sensation Adolescence and his newest drama Falling, about a nun and a priest who fall in love.</p><p>Also, Tartan Noir titan Val McDermid speaks about crime fiction and her 40 years of writing.</p><p>The Ian Fleming estate has granted novelist Vaseem Khan permission to write a book in the Bond-iverse. This time, it's set in the world of Q, Bond's gadget supplier.</p><p>And Hanan Issa, the National Poet of Wales, joins us to explore Welsh/Iraqi storytelling and poetry.</p><p>Presenter: Samira Ahmed</p>