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Roy Jenkins and guests gather for the annual All Things Considered book review programme. We have some fascinating characters for you today.
There’s the exotic butterfly salesman who gets thrown out of church for challenging preachers he sees as hypocrites, and the young Welsh writer who falls under his spell and lands up in jail. There’s a mother kidnapped and sold into slavery, and the husband who searches desperately for someone who’ll pay the ransom to get her home. And we’ve a whole collection of doctors, nurses and other hospital workers who share something of the reality of life in today’s National Health Service.

None of them is actually with us, but we hope they’ll come alive as we meet them in the pages of the books we’ve chosen for our annual review programme.

Joining Roy Jenkins are Joanna Penberthy, Bishop of St Davids; George Craig, former civil servant and a regular voice with Weekend Word on Good Morning Wales; and historian Dr Elin Jones from Ystrad Mynach, chair of the mental health charity Hafal.

The books we are reviewing:
The Killing of Butterfly Joe by Rhidian Brook
Histories by Sam Guglani
The Sealwoman’s Gift by Sally Magnusson

Our guests’ choices:
Being Human by Rowan Williams
Wales in 100 Objects by Andrew Green
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker