Beyond the Border, 1999
The ancient art of storytelling is celebrated next month at a Welsh festival. Erica Wagner prepares to listen
Skellig’s garage is out the back…
An interview with David Almond
Let me tell you a story…
an interview with tale-teller Ben Haggarty
Death school
Ultimately we will all end up in the undertaker’s hands, but what sort of people choose to dedicate their lives to our deaths? Erica Wagner visited the College of Funeral Sciences to find out
Poetic giant with his feet on the ground
an interview with Seamus Heaney
Home comforts
His debut novel of love and life during the American Civil War, Cold Mountain, became a modern classic overnight. Erica Wagner talks to Charles Frazier, an author inspired by the beauty of his birthplace and history of his ancestors
‘Thomas More’s London could be the city of God’
Peter Ackroyd takes Erica Wagner on a tour of the mean streets and divine architecture of the 16th century