Matt pumped Jo's brains into his recording device at the Bath Literary Festival 2015. Jo is an amazing writer and her book 'Joe All Alone' has just been nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2016. Pre-book writing Jo was a speech writer and editor for the Labour party back when everyone thought they were great in the early 2000s.
Apr 2021
Episode 52: Episode 49 - SOPHIE ANDERSON ON RETELLING MYTHS
In this episode, Matt and Sophie Anderson chat about how to retell a story and why it's so important that we do. Sophie Anderson is the author of The House With Chicken Legs, The Girl Who Speaks Bear, and the Castle of Tangled Magic. TGWSB won Wales Book of the Year (2020) and is ... Show More
15m 12s
Dec 2020
Episode 51: Episode 48 - The Mab (Why Isn't There A Family Version?)
In this episode, Matt and PG Bell, author of the Thrain To Impossible Places series, discuss why a family version of the Mabinogion doesn't exist. Matt and Peter also chat about how the Mabinogion is like the Marvel Cinematic Universe and why the Otherworld is awesome. If you'd l ... Show More
14m 30s