In this episode my old friend Dermot Somers reads his wicked tale, Dark Mourne. This story, from his classic collection, Mountains and Other Ghosts, haunted and intrigued me as a youth and it's great to have it adding to the Jam Crack library. Big thanks to Neil Conlan for his work on the recording. It sounds great.

Cast your mind back to the 1980s. Think sunshine, vertical limestone, swimsuits and lycra. That's right, La Reine de l'escalade, Catherine Destivelle has popped up to tell you all about it. Catherine was the very definition of climbing celebrity. She was famous all through France, she looked smoking hot and she crushed. 

What a treat from these couple of peaches. One of the greatest tales of American climbing ever written. Sit back and enjoy Chuck Pratt's The View From Dead Horse Point.

Yo crackheads, it's up. This week's Jam Crack Podcast featuring Sheffield / Barcelona based British / American climbatrx Michaela Tracy. We chat about all the hell sorta interesting things, some fun, some serious.

In this episode I read out one of my own stories, You've Been Popped. It concerns a day out on a wet gritstone crag, an awkward roof crack, a mysterious American climber and a huge cam. 

I’m releasing Tommy Caldwell – not the way a Kyrgyz rebel might release Tommy Caldwell, but in a podcast kinda way. This was recorded at this year’s Kendal Film Festival where I lured him into a small art room and locked the door.

As a start I have just read out one of my own stories called The Dimmest Glimmer, a story about the fears of youth, set in a tumbledown climbers’ hut at the edges of Fair Head, the big, dark crag in Northern Ireland.

My first podcast is an interview with my neighbour, Gus.