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As RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race UK returns for a second season and the US series welcomes its first trans man as a competitor, are the ironically gendered boundaries of drag breaking down and what about the other side of drag - the kings? Drag kings Don One and Jodie Mitchell, better known as John Travulva, join Samira to talk about the world of Kings.

Courttia Newland\u2019s new novel A River Called Time has been 18 years in the making and imagines a city a little like London in a world in which colonialism and slavery never happened. The writer discusses imagination, speculative fiction and class \u2013 and his co-scripting with Steve McQueen for two of the Small Axe films - Lovers Rock and Red, White and Blue.

You\u2019re back in lockdown, it\u2019s bitterly cold outside and the nights are long and dark. You could order a sad lamp online and hope for the best, or you can lean into it with writer Eleanor Penny\u2019s round up of podcasts for this bleak midwinter. Creepy, desolate, bleak - but gripping and thrilling too. Recommendations include The Sink, The Orbiting Human Circus, and Victoriocity.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed\nProducer: Jerome Weatherald

Main image above: Drag King John Travulva\nImage credit: Holly Revell