Iain Sinclair’s latest book, Pariah Genius, follows the life of photographer John Deakin, whose chronicles of Soho life – and the world of Francis Bacon and his friends – have so influenced our perception of that generation’s work. He talks to author and broadcaster Horatio Clare about why Deakin remains such a compelling figure.

Putting a country’s leader on trial once seemed unimaginable. But as journalist Steve Crawshaw makes clear in his new book – a blend of eyewitness reporting and history, including recent stories from the front lines of justice in Ukraine and Palestine – the possibilities of what can happen have been transformed. With host Daniel Hahn.

From the author of Ghost Town, psychogeographer Jeff Young’s Wild Twin is at once a hallucinatory dream book of lost youth and a deeply felt love song to the city he calls home. Literary journeying of the finest order, this is one you don’t want to miss. Jeff will be in conversation with his friend Horatio Clare.

In a feat of magnificent storytelling, award-winning historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes reveals secrets from the ancient world told through its seven greatest monuments: The Great Pyramid of Giza, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Temple of Artemis, The Statue of Zeus at Olympia, The Lighthouse of Alexandria; The Colossus at Rhodes, and The Mausoleum of Halikarnassos.