In Writing with Hattie Crisell

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• Jesse Armstrong, screenwriter

  December 6, 2024 · 55 min

  For this final episode of the sixth season of In Writing, I sat down with Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession, and writer/co-writer of numerous other brilliant shows and movies including Peep Show, Fresh Meat, The Thick of It, In The…

• Sara Collins, novelist

  November 29, 2024 · 51 min

  Fresh from judging the Booker Prize, novelist Sara Collins joins us this week. Her debut The Confessions of Frannie Langton won the First Novel prize in the 2019 Costa Book Awards, and having adapted it into a TV series, she's now working…

• Tom Crewe, novelist

  November 22, 2024 · 58 min

  This week I'm talking to Tom Crewe, author of 2023's The New Life, contributing editor of the London Review of Books and winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. I visited Tom in September at his London office, which is…

• Posy Simmonds, cartoonist and graphic novelist

  November 15, 2024 · 53 min

  This week I'm in the London home of artist and writer Posy Simmonds. From the 1970s onwards, Posy had a regular comic strip in The Guardian, where she wrote Mrs Weber's Diary and later serialised the graphic novel Tamara Drewe. She went on…

• Nathan Silver, filmmaker

  November 8, 2024 · 50 min

  Nathan Silver, director and co-writer of Between the Temples (and many other movies) joins me from New York today to talk about his 'scriptment' approach to screenwriting, in which scripts read more like novellas. Nathan and I have a great…

• Hattie in the hot seat

  November 7, 2024 · 48 min

  This slightly silly bonus episode marks the launch today of In Writing: Conversations on Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation, published in the UK by Granta Books. Friend of the podcast and former guest Sathnam Sanghera came…

• Yomi Adegoke, novelist and non-fiction writer

  November 1, 2024 · 41 min

  Yomi Adegoke, bestselling author of The List and co-author of Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible, spoke to me in August for this episode. We discussed the stellar career she's established in her twenties and early thirties – from…

• Craig Brown, satirist and biographer

  October 25, 2024 · 1 hr 0 min

  I had a great chat this week with Craig Brown, parody writer and columnist for Private Eye and the Daily Mail, and author of offbeat biographies including A Voyage Around the Queen; One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time; and Ma'am…