There are few things that can persuade me to listen to the BBC’s Radio 4, but this just might be one of them. Tomorrow (Thursday) at 11:30am they are airing a documentary called Herland which will feature ten female science fiction writers. They have an excellent line-up (though the blurbs do not inspire confidence). Thankfully the show has been put together by Geoff Ryman, who can be relied upon to know what he is talking about and avoid the sort of breathless nonsense that the BBC normally brings to coverage of SF.

Anyway, it will be on iPlayer, so if you are at work tomorrow morning and can’t listen you can catch up here. There’s also a taster in the form of a short clip involving someone who I expect to be a big star of the SF field in the future, Laurie Penny.