Is freedom of speech a 'toxic myth'? Plus the top 100 books since 2000 – books podcast
Journalist Nesrine Malik talks about her book We Need New Stories and we discuss the Guardian’s...
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Is freedom of speech a 'toxic myth'? Plus the top 100 books since 2000 – books podcast
Journalist Nesrine Malik talks about her book We Need New Stories and we discuss the Guardian’s...
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Ben Lerner and Meena Kandasamy on autofiction – books podcast
Ben Lerner and Meena Kandasamy talk about drawing on their most embarrassing and vulnerable...
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Robert Webb on modern masculinity – books podcast
Robert Webb on modern masculinity – books podcast
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Salman Rushdie on The Golden House, Trump and more – books podcast
Speaking with Mark Lawson, Rushdie looks back on his career and discusses his latest book, set in...
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TS Eliot poetry prize winner Hannah Sullivan and Kevin Powers – books podcast
On this week’s show, we speak to Sullivan about her winning Three Poems, and US author Kevin...
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Can books and poetry make you happier? - books podcast
We talk to William Sieghart and Viv Groskop about the restorative properties of literature and...
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Penelope Lively on MR James' Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad – books podcast
You’ll never sleep in a twin bedroom again after hearing this classic Edwardian ghost story,...
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Neil Gaiman on Rudyard Kipling's The Gardener – books podcast
Neil Gaiman introduces Rudyard Kipling’s The Gardener, a melancholy tale from 1925, as part of...
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Zadie Smith on Giuseppe Pontiggia's Umberto Buti – books podcast
Zadie Smith shares why she loves this almost ‘anti-Italian’ story from Giuseppe Pontiggia, then...
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Eoin Colfer on returning to Artemis Fowl – books podcast
This week, the creator of the biggest child villain in literature talks about comedy writing and...
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Edinburgh book festival with Colson Whitehead and others – books podcast
Edinburgh book festival with Colson Whitehead and others – books podcast
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Colm Tóibín in conversation – books podcast
The acclaimed Irish novelist talks to Charlotte Higgins about House of Names, his reimagining of...
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Kamila Shamsie and Preti Taneja on reimagining classics - books podcast
The two novelists have used Greek tragedy and Shakespeare respectively to tell tough stories of...
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Colm Tóibín in conversation – books podcast
The acclaimed Irish novelist talks to Charlotte Higgins about House of Names, his reimagining of...
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Orhan Pamuk and Nicole Krauss - books podcast
The Turkish Nobel winner and American novelist talk about their new books, The Red-Haired Woman...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Ama Ata Aidoo – books podcast
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shares why she admires the ‘old-fashioned social realism’ of the...
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Why David Attenborough is famous but 'he isn't a celebrity' – books podcast
We speak to Horrible Histories consultant and podcaster Greg Jenner about the history of...
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Got to learn the world of design (feat. Varun Gadh) - FBD005
This week I had a chat with Varun Gadh, a Product Design Engineer. He's has some very interesting...
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Can you really charge that much? (feat. Ian Paget) - FBD003
We are back for another episode! In episode 3 we caught up with Mr Logo Geek, Ian Paget, a very...
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Not giving out bad advice (feat. Mark Hirons) - FBD004
This week we caught up with Mark Hirons, a talented designer at Blue Deer Design who now has a...
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