Lavinia Greenlaw, Lindsay Duncan, the Irish mother and baby homes scandal

Lavinia Greenlaw is one of the country's leading poets and has now published a Selected Edition of her work, covering three decades of writing. She tells Emma Barnet about her new role as Poetry Editor at Faber, the first woman to hold the position. She is now the custodian of a back catalogue that includes TS Eliot, Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, and the gatekeeper for aspiring poets of the next generation.

It is ten years since journalist Alison O’Reilly revealed that up to 796 babies were buried in a mass, unmarked grave in the grounds of a former mother and baby home in Galway. The Irish government has promised compensation, but none has been paid out. Is this now about to change? Alison joins Emma Barnett to discuss the latest developments.

And how far would you go to help a friend? In Lindsay Duncan's new drama, Truelove on Channel 4, a drunken reunion at a funeral leads a group of friends to make a pact: they will support each other in assisted dying rather than let a friend suffer alone. Lindsay tells Emma how a thriller starring a cast in their seventies and eighties is turning the police procedural on its head.

Producer: Hannah Sander Presenter: Emma Barnett