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Felipe Fernández-Armesto: Beyond the Myth of Magellan

In this week’s Book Club podcast, my guest is the historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto. 500 years...

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Helen Bond and Joan Taylor: Women Remembered

In this week's Book Club podcast, we ask: did the chroniclers of the early Church cover up...

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Francis Fukuyama: Liberalism and its Discontents

In this week’s Book Club podcast I’m joined by Francis Fukuyama to talk about his new book...

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Colm Toibin: Vinegar Hill

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Colm Toibin. Best known as a novelist, Colm’s new...

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Tom Burgis: Kleptopia

In this week's Book Club podcast, I'm talking to the investigative reporter Tom Burgis – just...

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Christopher de Bellaigue: The Lion House

In this week’s Book Club podcast, I’m joined by the historian Christopher de Bellaigue to talk...

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The centenary of literary Modernism

In this week's Book Club podcast, we're going back 100 years to 1922 – the year which is usually...

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Anna Keay: The Restless Republic

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the historian Anna Keay. In her new book The...

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The centenary of Kerouac

This year marks the centenary of the birth of Jack Kerouac. As Penguin publishes a lavish new...

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Philip Oltermann: The Stasi Poetry Circle

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Philip Oltermann, whose new book The Stasi Poetry...

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Christopher Prendergast: Living and Dying With Marcel Proust

In this week's Book Club podcast, I'm joined by Christopher Prendergast, Professor Emeritus of...

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James Birch: Bacon in Moscow

In this week's Book Club podcast, my guest is the gallerist James Birch - whose new book Bacon In...

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Stuart Jeffries: Everything, All The Time, Everywhere

This week's Book Club podcast addresses one of the most misunderstood and vilified concepts in...

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Natalie Livingstone: The Women of Rothschild

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Natalie Livingstone – whose new book The Women of...

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Siri Hustvedt: Mothers, Fathers and Others

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the writer Siri Hustvedt, whose latest book is a...

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Kevin Birmingham: The Sinner and The Saint: Dostoevsky, A Crime and its Punishment

My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Kevin Birmingham, whose new book The Sinner and The...

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Judy Golding: The Children of Lovers

This year Faber and Faber started the project of republishing the late Nobel Laureate William...

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Paul Muldoon: Howdie-Skelp

On this week's Book Club podcast, I'm joined by one of the most distinguished poets in the...

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Tessa Dunlop: Army Girls

My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the historian Tessa Dunlop. Tessa's new book is Army...

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Armando Iannucci: Pandemonium

My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Armando Iannucci – the satirist behind Alan...

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