
INTERVIEWS, CONVERSATIONS & MORE
Isa Soares Tonight, CNN International
Available from August 3rd 2025
Podcast - requires log in. RUN TIME 00:52:25
Resources on Penguin.co.uk
Personal story in The New Statesman
with Kathryn Bromwich
in conversation with Colin Grant - RUN TIME 00:35:07
With Sam Baker
The Green & The Black is about the changing face of modern Ireland, as told through multiple generations of one family
on rebellion, redemption and making crisis count. Crisis What Crisis YouTube channel - RUN TIME 1:09:49
With Chief Literary Critic Johanna Thomas-Corr - PDF
With Dorothy Koomson on The Best of Everything
Watch on the Women's Prize YouTube channel - RUN TIME 3:35
With Tina Jackson - PDF
By Ellen Peirson Hagger - PDF
In conversation with Zoe West - PDF
Solace and Connection Through Reading
The film features award-winning actor Ralph Ineson. The book we chose, My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal, is published by our key partner Penguin Random House UK and resonates with many of the prisoners we work with.
Making Dad's Fruitcake with
Dean O'Loughlin. For Headline Books
Masterclass by Kit de Waal
The Art of Trespass. From The National Creative Writing Graduate Fair
Kit de Waal chats to Holly Newson
for Audible UK
In conversation with Lisa Blower
Bridport Literary Festival 2022
In conversation with Russell Kane
READ
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READ - The Independent, Ireland Kit de Waal memoir review
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READ - The Sunday Independent, Ireland Kit de Waal memoir extract
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READ - The Irish Times, ‘I will always write stories that come from the heart’
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READ - Writers Online, Meet the Author with Kit de Waal
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READ - The Guardian, 'As soon as you introduce a talking horse, I'm just not interested'
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READ - The Guardian, Interview - ‘Writing’s very solitary – you do it because you want to find readers’
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READ - The Irish Times ‘Never swear, kiss a boy or moan’
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READ - The Times Literary Supplement, Twenty Questions with Kit de Waal
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READ - The Guardian, ‘I read my first novel aged 22’
WATCH
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WATCH - Audible UK - Kit de Waal on Her Memoir​
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WATCH - Items from My Childhood with Kit de waal and Dean O'Loughlin
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WATCH - Making My Dad's Fruitcake with Kit de Waal and Dean O'Loughlin
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WATCH - The Casket of Fictional Delights, Kit de Waal gives advice on writing Flash Fiction
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WATCH - Munster Literary Centre, In conversation with Paul Mcveigh and Niahm Campbell
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WATCH - Waterstones, Common People with Kit de Waal
WATCH - Penguin, Kit de Waal on why we need more diverse writers
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WATCH - Comma Press, NCWGF 2016 - Masterclass by Kit de Waal - The Art of Trespass
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WATCH - News with Robbietow, Interview with Kit de Waal
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WATCH - The Edinburgh International Book Festival 2021, Kit de Waal with Damian Barr
LISTEN
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LISTEN - The Birmingham Lit Fest Presents...podcast, Kit de Waal in Conversation with Paul McVeigh
LISTEN - Penguin Podcast, Kit de Waal with Katy Brand
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LISTEN - BBC Programmes, Front Row, Nmon Ford, Eavan Boland, Kit de Waal, London Mozart Players
Baritone and composer Nmon Ford on his new work, Orfeus, which fuses opera with house music. Plus a tribute to the great Irish poet Eavan Boland.
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LISTEN - BBC Programmes, A Good Read, Kit de Waal and Nina Stibbe, Kit de Waal and Nina Stibbe talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert, including The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro and Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers.
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EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 2022
Pay what you can to watch online.
Available to watch any time.
PODCAST APPEARANCES
LITERARY SALON with Damian Barr
Running time: 44 min
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JUST THE TONIC with Kate Derham
Running time: (to run Sept. 2022)
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Running time: 1hr
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RELATIVELY, About Siblings
Running time: 36:64 min.
Episode 41: Kit de Waal & Dean O'Loughlin.
JUSTICE, DISRUPTED with Byron Vincent
Running time: 1hr 2 min.
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THE BETTER MAN with Alex Myers
Episode #14 - Running time: 1hr
Episode #44 - Running time: 1hr 24 min.
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HOW TO FAIL with Elizabeth Day
Running Time: 58 min
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Running Time: 35 min
Running Time: (to run August 16th 2022)
PRINCESS The Strand with Anita Anand
​Running time: TBC
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Running time (to run 15th August 2022)
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The Birmingham Lit Fest Presents, Kit de Waal in Conversation with Paul McVeigh
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Kit de Waal with Katy Brand
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Running time: (to run 23 Sept. 2022)
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Running time: (to run 3 October 2022)
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