In this episode Paul is in conversation with Welsh writers Alis Hawkins and Mike Parker. Alis is a crime writer and author of the Teifi Valley Coroner series and the Oxford Mysteries series. Mike is a writer and broadcaster and he is author of Map Addict, On the Red Hill and All Along the Wide Border and much more! The conversation starts inevitably with Wales and hiraeth and then ranges widely from the meaning and origins of community, the invasion of the motor car, the value of libraries and archives and much more.

You can find out more about Alis here https://alishawkins.co.uk/ and Mike here https://www.mikeparker.org.uk/index.html

You can find out more about their books and buy some of them here https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/bookylicious-series-4-episode-1-alis-hawkins-and-mike-parker?