Iain MacGregor: Checkpoint Charlie
In this week's Book Club podcast we anticipate the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Wall going up...
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Art and literature audios
Hermione Lee: Tom Stoppard, A Life
My guest on this week’s podcast is the biographer and critic Hermione Lee. Her biography of...
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My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the writer Oliver Burkeman. His new book 4,000...
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James Holland: Brothers In Arms
In this week's Book Club podcast I'm joined by the historian James Holland to talk about his...
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My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Armando Iannucci – the satirist behind Alan...
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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...
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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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My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Colm Toibin. Best known as a novelist,...
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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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Felipe Fernández-Armesto: Beyond the Myth of Magellan
In this week’s Book Club podcast, my guest is the historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto. 500...
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Simon Kuper: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the writer Simon Kuper, whose new book –...
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China Miéville: A Spectre, Haunting: On The Communist Manifesto
In this week’s Book Club podcast, I’m joined by the writer China Miéville to talk...
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My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the critic, novelist and art historian Chloë...
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In this week's Book Club podcast my guest is the Argentine-born novelist Andrés Neuman, who was...
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Claire Tomalin: The Young H G Wells
In this week’s Book Club podcast, my guest is Claire Tomalin. Claire’s new book, The...
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Wendy K. Pirsig: On Quality – Robert M. Pirsig
In this week's Book Club podcast, I'm talking to Wendy K Pirsig – widow of Robert M Pirsig,...
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Daniel Kahneman and Olivier Sibony: Noise
My guests in this week's Book Club podcast are Daniel Kahneman and Olivier Sibony, co-authors...
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Allan Mallinson: The Shape of Battle
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the historian, novelist and former Army...
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My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Anne Weber, author of Epic Annette: A...
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In this week's Book Club podcast I'm talking to Michael Pye about his new book Antwerp: The Glory...
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