Steven Trio qualified as a solicitor, lasted just six months and walked away to pursue the musical career he'd always wanted. What followed was a creative journey through jazz, songwriting and comedy writing - and now his stories are heading towards the big screen. In this entertaining conversation with broadcast journalist Chris Dabbs, Steven talks about defying his father's expectations, finding musical success, discovering a gift for absurdist humour and his plans to adapt his writing for film..

Is it ever too late to pursue the dream you kept putting off? Ray Denyer became an author in his sixties — and his message is simple: never give up. After decades of making up stories for his family, encouragement from his 14 grandchildren finally persuaded Ray to start writing them down. The result was Algernon Breadstick: The Hapless Knight, a warm, funny fantasy adventure about an unlikely hero who fails, gets lost, makes mistakes — and keeps going. In this episode of Author Conversations,...

"Sometimes the most powerful memoir isn't written in chapters—it's written one poem at a time." What if the most difficult chapters of your life became your greatest source of strength? In this moving episode of Author Conversations, Chris Dabbs...