Radio

I love doing live (and recorded) radio. Here’s a selection of programmes I’ve done for BBC Radio 4:

BBC Radio 4 Free Thinking: Charms – with fellow authors Madeline Miller and Kirsty Logan

BBC Radio 4 Free Thinking: Enchantment, Witches and Woodlands – in the woods with Matthew Sweet and witch William Hunter

BBC Radio 4 Free Thinking: May Day Rituals – with Tim Healey, author of The Green Man in Oxfordshire

BBC Radio 4 Free Thinking: A Pinch of Salt – the symbolism of salt in folklore, science, art and food

BBC Radio 4 Open Book: Folk Resurgence in Literature – with Max Porter and Mariella Frostrup

BBC Radio 4 Front Row: Folk the song cycle world premiere – discussing the project with composer Helen Grime and soprano Claire Booth

BBC Radio 3 In Concert: Folk the song cycle – the world premiere, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Claire Booth

My fiction has also appeared on BBC radio:

BBC Radio 4 Short Works: The Wild Hunt – All Hallows Eve, 1589. Hoping to impress a girl in the village, a young man stays out in the forest at night to glimpse the ghostly Wild Hunt

BBC Radio 4 Short Works Series: Folk by Zoe Gilbert – five stories from my novel Folk adapted for radio and read by Samantha Spiro