Margaret Busby
Veteran publisher and editor notable for founding Alison and Busby and for anthologies such as Daughters of Africa; champion of writers from marginalized backgrounds and longtime cultural figure.
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Mar 2, 2026 • 42min
Reading and storytelling
Sarah Dillon, Cambridge literature professor who studies how stories shape public reasoning. Lottie Moggach, novelist and arts writer who mined Victorian crime for Mrs Pearcey. Margaret Busby, pioneering publisher and editor who champions marginalized writers. They explore Victorian true crime and reading culture, how serials and moral panics shaped tastes, publishing risks and literary hierarchies, and how stories even influence scientists' thinking.
