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The Working Class Library is The Bee’s podcast. Each month Richard Benson, editor of The Bee, and Claire Malcolm, CEO of New Writing North, invite a writer to discuss a book and decide whether it deserves a place on the shelves of the Working Class Library – our imaginary library of great books by and about ordinary people.

In Our Element: A poet's enquiry into climate change.Is the climate crisis asking for radical system change and a change of hearts and minds? Does it reflect a crisis of the imagination, of consciousness, of global ethics? How might extracting, consuming, travelling and working less benefit our well-being as well as simply bringing down carbon emissions? Across ten episodes, poet Linda France talks to activists, engineers, conservationists, academics, thinkers, poets and musicians around the world to hear their take on these questions.

Reading recommendations and bookish chat throughout the seasons - from the NWN team that brings you Durham Book Festival.

What does the future hold?It’s a big question. The word ‘future’ itself can have many different connotations. Six anthropologists at Durham University sit down for six different conversations about what answers – and what further questions – we might find. Through the fascinating lens of their current research, these thinkers will look at what kind of futures we might imagine for ourselves, and what powers we have to make them happen.Produced for Durham Book Festival in partnership with Durham University.

Write Your Novel is an innovative write-along podcast series - written and devised by Dr Yvonne Battle-Felton. In each episode, Yvonne is joined by a leading writer as they focus on specific writing mechanisms through the prism of their work. Guests - including David Nicholls, Sarah Moss and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - explain their approach in constructing their novel. A writing exercise at the end of each conversation supports the listener to help them proactively work through the techniques in their own work. Presenter: Yvonne Battle-FeltonProducer: Candace WilsonMusic: Joe GardnerA ...

Listen along to our North East literature events: brilliant and best-selling authors in-conversation about their books. Produced by New Writing North.