Radio

My first episode of Literary Pursuits for BBC Radio 3. The Radio Times described it as "The best thing I've heard all year."

My fourth appearance on YDTM, talking about the life of Mary Wollstonecraft with Greg Jenner and Cariad Lloyd.

YD2M goes to Hay Festival. Greg Jenner, Stuart Goldsmith and I chat live in the BBC tent about the history of fandom.

A three-part series on the artistic and cultural landscape of Australia. It includes interviews with Geoffrey Rush, Courtney Barnett, Baz Luhrmann and Richard Flanagan.

I talk about the history of breastfeeding, and the social and political implications of the way we choose to feed our babies. Recorded live at the York Festival of Ideas.

This was my first Sunday Feature, on the influence of fan mail on writers including Lord Byron, Tennessee William and Virginia Woolf.

In this series on environmental activists, I look at the poet Judith Wright who was instrumental in saving the Great Barrier Reef.

In my first episode of this chart-topping podcast, I give the comedian Ed Gamble a lesson on Lord Byron.

My second appearance on YD2M, this time talking about Mary Shelley with the comedian Lauren Pattison.

Nineteenth-century vampire chat with Ed Helms and Greg Jenner.

This was an essay I delivered live at the Free Thinking Festival in Gateshead. It's all about Byron and what might be considered the first ever fan letters.

I look at the surprising impact that the eruption of a volcano in Indonesia two hundred years ago had on Europe's cultural landscape.

It's been one hundred years since the first romantic comedy; this programme looks at where we've come from there.