For BBC Radio 3’s The Essay, this week three writers ask themselves ‘why I write’. In today’s session, writer Horatio Clare, screenwriter and novelist Frank Cottrell Boyce and the Welsh Poet Laureate Gillian Clarke all take up the challenge of answering this key question.
This recording will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at 10.45pm on Wednesday 27, Thursday 28 and Friday 29 May.