Adam O'Riordan a Midnight Expert on Radio 5 Live

Adam O’Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982 and read English at Oxford University. In 2008 O’Riordan became the youngest Poet-in-Residence at The Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. His first collection In the Flesh (Chatto and Windus) won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011. He is Lecturer in Poetry Writing at the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.

He will be speaking on air with author Graeme Simsion. Graeme is a writer of screenplays, short stories, novels and a couple of short plays.

You can catch Adam live on-air tonight at midnight by listening at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_five_live