Children's laureate Michael Rosen opens today's programme with a poem and explains how you talk politics to children - and why nothing should be out of bounds.
Melissa Benn, journalist, campaigner and daughter of Tony, discusses her latest novel One of Us and says why she doesn't think that her family is a political dynasty: "They each get in there and do the messy democratic thing." She also describes just how a brutal review of a previous novel affected her.
Journalist Mohammed Hanif has had rather good reviews of his first novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes, about the assassination of the dictator General Zia. But his son was most delighted with one that called him "a Pakistani Homer Simpson".
We also hear from the acclaimed American author Jhumpa Lahiri, as well as Will Self and Kathleen Turner.
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