It’s another Shed away-day, with Simon making a flying visit to Wing in Rutland, where, in a studio burrowed into the bottom of her garden, Angela Harding is inspired to create some of the most beaiutiful and recognisable illustrations of recent times. Her images of animals, birds and both coastal and rural landscapes have graced the pages of some of our best known and most beloved writers, from Melissa Harrison to Isabella Tree, as well as an up and coming chancer called Simon Armitage. Angela's passion for experimentation with form, moving between linocut, printing and etching throughout her career, has paid dividends, with her work now available not just as prints but on a whole variety of gift items, a fact she's rightly proud of. Simon has a bit of a bone to pick though, with Angela responsible for the images on some particularly fiendish jigsaws that have kept him from his work one too many times. With cuppa in hand, thanks to our friends over at Yorkshire Tea, these issues are ironed out, as the pair share their passions for the natural world and show why they make such fantastic collaborators. Simon also has a very private secret to share with Angela, whose approval he's desperate to seek.

On a stormy late-summer afternoon, a legendary singer-songwriter makes the seismic journey from South Yorkshire to West Yorkshire to drop in on Simon and make sure he's properly kitted out for the wild winds and lashing rain. Richard Hawley is perhaps our greatest living balladeer. As well as having played alongside some of the biggest names in music, he's also made a major name for himself with his own band, playing countless live shows and producing albums like 'Coles Corner', 'Hollow Meadows' and 'In This City They Call You Love'. More recently the award-winning musical 'Standing At The Sky's Edge' which is built on his songs has left audiences around the country moved to tears. Over a couple of brews, courtesy of our friends at Yorkshire Tea, Richard tells Simon about his own shed, the importance of love in his life and work, and finally about the cleft palate that would, had he not been through numerous operations, have left him unable to sing. All that and a beautiful rendition of a Buddly Holly classic is more than enough to keep the storm at bay.

Simon welcomes journalist, newsreader and now novelist Reeta Chakrabarti to the shed for a conversation that arcs from her childhood in Birmingham to reporting from conflict zones around the world. Reeta discusses her debut novel, Finding Belle, a moving coming-of-age tale of family, identity, mental illness and cross-cultural roots that moves from the beaches of Mombasa to England in the 1970s - a place she describes as a more difficult and sometimes more brutal place than in it is today. Over a proper brew from our friends at Yorkshire Tea, Simon and Reeta share their love of Keats and their passion for dancing (if your arms don't rise above your shoulders have you even had a dance?) - and Reeta talks about some of the stories that have stayed with her over the years, including the murder of Stephen Lawrence.