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Series on Memoir, episode 2. In this episode, Eleanor talks with one of England's great literary critics, Sir Frank Kermode. An expert on the Bible, Shakespeare, and the classics, he talks about his memoir Not Entitled and about growing up on the Isle of Man in the 1920s and '30s.

This week, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Oxford evolutionary biologist and zoologist Richard Dawkins. The author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker is Britain's answer to Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould. From sexy spiders, to fertile figs, Dawkins makes science comprehensible and fascinating.

Today on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel talks with English writer Jim Crace. His unusual, award-winning novels have been translated into 14 languages. His latest book, Signals of Distress, is an elegant evocation of a remote corner of coastal England in the 1830s.

Eleanor Wachtel talks with Richard Holmes on his new biography about the poet Sameul Taylor Coleridge, considered one of England's greatest - and most extravagantly flawed - geniuses.

PART I: Eleanor Wachtel talks with British author William Boyd, whose latest novel - Armadillo - looks at the life of a corrupt insurance adjuster in modern-day London. Boyd discusses the vicissitudes of life, the enduring class system in England, growing up in Africa, lucid dreaming, and the success of his latest book. PART II: Eleanor Wachtel interviews British author Ian McEwan. The discuss Enduring Love - his latest novel about the disastrous consequences of an incident wherein five men…

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with English historian and author Marina Warner about her new book, No Go the Bogeyman. It's a wide-ranging exploration of fear and mythology.

Today, the first episode of a three-part series on War & Remembrance: Eleanor Wachtel speaks with English classicist Bernard Knox on Homer, the character of Odysseus, and about Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

Part Two of our series on War & Remembrance: This week, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with English novelist Pat Barker. Barker has written an extraordinary trilogy of novels about World War I - starting with Regeneration and concluding with her Booker Prize winner, The Ghost Road.

This week on Writers & Company - the "Shelock Holmes" of literary criticism, England's John Sutherland. Sutherland scrutinises the puzzles and discrepancies in classic novels.

An interview with English author Kate Atkinson, whose new book Human Croquet draws on the same fierce energy and idiosyncratic wit as her award-winning first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. This episode includes two readings.

This week on Writers & Company - Eleanor Wachtel speaks with British author Victoria Glendinning. Famous for her literary biographies, Glendinning has now written a Victorian novel of her own called Electricity.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of Britain's most popular novelists, Margaret Drabble. Five years after her trilogy chronicling Thatcher's England, Drabble has a new, playful novel called the The Witch of Exmoor.

Eleanor Wachtel talks with British writer Beryl Bainbridge about her life and work. She gives two readings from her novel, The Birthday Boys - a fictional account of Scott's British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition (1910-1913).

Eleanor Wachtel talks with one of England's greatest travel writers, Colin Thubron. Thubron goes to the Lost Heart of Asia in his latest book.

International Short Story Series, Part : Today on Writers & Company, host Eleanor Wachtel interviews British author J.G. Ballard. Along with his science fiction, J.G. Ballard is widely known for his semi-autobiographical novel The Empire Of The Sun. Third in the international short story series. Following the interview, J.G. Ballard reads "The Enormous Space," from the collection War Fever.