Please dive in to this fascinating conversation between two very different genre writers – one a crime-writing native with Norfolk blood and deep roots on the north coast, and the other an author of romantic historical fiction who settled in Norwich 24 years ago. Find out what the Norfolk landscape means to Rachel Hore, a Sunday Times bestselling author many times over, and how she draws the seed of a story from a specific location. Engage with Henry Sutton’s visions of the dark underbelly of Great Yarmouth, and discover characters inextricable from their settings. How faithful should the geography of a fictional place be to a real location ? How much do writers know about where their stories are going when they begin? Why might writing what you know not exactly be the answer? What makes Henry think he might persuade Rachel to ‘come over to the dark side’ and write crime?

I loved rewatching this, and rediscovering a wealth of fascinating ideas and evocative readings. It will make you want to pick up a book to read with fresh eyes or a notebook to write in. Two long-term friends and brilliant writers – who have both taught the arts of creative writing at UEA – playfully turn over the mysterious means by which a place can take hold of the imagination and how our imaginations in turn reshape that landscape.