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Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's 'Cabaret of the word' with guests Mark Haddon, Frances Leviston, Sarfraz Manzoor, and Tony Crowley.

Sarfraz Manzoor talks about the challenge of adapting the memoir of his obsession with Bruce Springsteen into a one-man show - and what The Boss taught him about perfecting a persona for the stage.
'The Boss Rules' tours London, Otley, Birmingham and Halesworth in October and November.

Mark Haddon, poet, novelist and dramatist, shares extracts from his tallk 'Swimming and Flying' and explains how adapting 'The Curious Incident of The Dog and the Night-time' helped him think about the way audiences 'hear' writing in performance.
Mark's novel 'The Red House' is published by Jonathan Cape

Frances Leviston was nominated for the T.S.Eliot prize for her first poetry collection 'Public Dream' - she shares a new poem 'Pyramid' and reflects on how thinking about form and shape helped her to write differently.
'Pyramid' is to be published in The Manchester Review, and Frances' new collection 'Disinformation' is forthcoming from Picador.

Tony Crowley grew up in Liverpool and has now written the definitive history of Scouse dialect. He shares Scouse poetry and explains why Scouse is a more recent invention than Liverpudlians tend to think.
"Scouse: Social and Cultural History" published by Liverpool University Press.