Sharon Horgan, Maya Youssef, Samantha Harvey

Sharon Horgan, the comedy actress and writer behind Pulling, Motherhood and Catastrophe features in her first major Hollywood film, Game Night. She tells Kirsty about the difference between working on American movies and British television and why series like Catastrophe aren't , in fact, sitcoms.

Syrian musician Maya Youssef brings her qanun into the studio and performs from her album Syrian Dreams.

Samantha's Harvey's latest novel, The Western Wind, is a literary medieval whodunit with an ingenious construction. She discusses its palindromic form and explains the significance of setting it in 1491.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Rebecca Armstrong.