Literary Friction:

You can listen to Literary Friction on Apple, Spotify and NTS Radio.

Open Book, BBC Radio 4 :

Octavia has presented a number of episodes of open book:

14/5/23: Miranda France and Deborah Levy

16/4/23: Best of Young British Novelists with Sigrid Rausing, Alex Clark, Max Liu and Sophie Mackintosh

9/4/23: Contemporary Indian Writing with Santanu Bhattacharya, Anindita Ghose and Sonal Kohli

27/11/22: Mariana Enríquez, Claire Kohda and Sophie White

23/10/22: Writing Nature, with Johny Pitts, Sarah Hall, Mya-Rose Craig, Fiona Mozley and Dorthe Nors

9/10/22: Celeste Ng, Bobby Palmer and Michael Pedersen

21/8/22: Mary Renault’s Greek Myths, with Bettany Hughes, Kamila Shamsie and Okechukwu Nzelu

14/8/22: Ross Raisin and Elaine Castillo

BBC R4:

7/6/21: American Psycho at 30

BBC World Service:

18/3/23: World Book Café Paris with Mahir Guven, Blandine Rinkel, Laurent Petitmangin and Capucine Delattre

Other podcast appearances:

LRB in conversation with Mary Gaitskill

(photo credit: Image to left from WOW Festival 2023 Renata Boruch)