Sat 31 Oct - Leila Segal and Raquel Ribeiro - Cuba and the short story

Leila Segal introduces her new collection, 'Breathe'. Her stories are told from varied points of view but each has an emotional authenticity she acquired through her experiences in Cuba, having lived in the deep countryside as well as in Havana and tourist areas. Also, Dr Raquel Ribeiro on the generation los novismos cubanos and the work of Angel Santiesteban-Prats, imprisoned for journalism and creative writing. His latest collection, 'Last Symphony' is currently available in Spanish.

with Jude Cowan Montague

Sat 24 Oct - Typical Girls Magazine: Jamila Kenneally

The women behind the new Brighton-based magazine Typical Girls share their work and reflect on how young women interact with the media in 2015 as both producer and consumer. Typical Girls take their moniker from the Slits, and discuss ways to challenge homogeneity.

What does it mean to be a Typical Girl? The magazine website writes ...

There is no one way of answering that question. The Slits wrote of 'bringing out the new improved model' and that's what Typical Girls is all about. We want to celebrate women in all their variations. What makes Typical Girls unique is our aspiration towards diversity. Created as a platform for artists and writers to share their work; Typical Girls is a place to inspire and be inspired.

Sat 17 Oct - Jim Kelly, Penguin author, on news reporting and crime fiction

Jim Kelly, creator of detective-journalist Philip Dryden, investigates the relationship of news reporting with crime mystery writing.

Sat 10 Oct - Vanya Balogh, Tisna Westerhof, Paul Carter Robinson, Stephanie Seungmin Kim and Underground Art

Curator-artist Vanya Balogh and Tisna Westerhof, Paul Carter Robinson, Stephanie Seungmin Kim discuss the ethics and actuality of curating underground art in London in advance of the latest group Q-Park exhibition, Silent Movies, a multi-artist study in Monochromania opening Friday 16 October.

With Rebecca Feiner and Alice Foster.

Sat 3 Oct - Two Years Before the Mast - Improvisation with Grahame Painting

A nautical show, one of our occasional series of improvisations on early journalism.

Journalist and musician Grahame Painting talks about his experiences of the newsroom and features and how roles have changed in the industry.

Grahame and Jude create live in the Resonance FM studio an extended piece based on Richard Henry Dana's seminal early immersive reportage 'Two Years Before the Mast'from the 1840s, the book that informed Moby Dick.

Sat 26 Sept - Two poets of place and personal histories, Susie Campbell and Lucy Furlong

Susie Campbell talks about her collection 'The Bitters' derived from her research into the patient at the former asylum where her grandmother was a patient, and Lucy Furlong reads from her collection 'Clew'.
Susie and Lucy share their current projects. Susie is working on a follow-up sequence to 'The Bitters' based on the Enquiry Reports of the Women's Industrial Council and into her reading of the London College of Fashion archive into women's industries. Lucy has been producing a poetry map of areas where her father used to play, a very personal and touching exploration of his neighbourhood where she still lives with her own family in Surrey.

Jude CM sings a Gaelic folk song to remember Lucy's Irish ancestors.

This show has been rescheduled from its original slot of Saturday 19 September.

Sat 12 Sept - Philip Ruff on the Sidney Street Siege, the identity of Peter the Painter and the Latvian national and socialist struggle.

When London Met Latvia

Philip Ruff discusses the Sidney Street Siege, the identity of Peter the Painter and the Latvian national and socialist struggle. On 3 January 1911, London witnessed a epic gun battle of state versus anarchist fought in the streets of Whitechapel/Stepney. After this terrible encounter in which unprecedented firepower was used in the civic streets a man hunt began for 'Peter the Painter' who eluded the authorities. Philip Ruff's investigative work in tracking the identity of the wanted figure has uncovered much hitherto unknown information about a much bigger political story that has been overlooked in histories of Europe. The struggle of Latvian people for independence, and the associated drive towards anarchism and socialism is brought to life through Philip's story of the real Peter the Painter, Janis Zhaklis.