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Crime and passion with Sara Paretsky and André Aciman – books podcast

This week, it’s Claire’s birthday so she’s meeting with two of her favourite authors: crime...

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The art of biography, with Diarmaid MacCulloch and Ken Krimstein – books podcast

New Yorker cartoonist Krimstein discusses his pictorial life of Hannah Arendt and we head to the...

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Myth-making with Sarah Perry and Maria Dahvana Headley – books podcast

We talk to The Essex Serpent author Perry about the spine-tingling Melmoth and take Beowulf into...

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Robin Robertson and Andrew McMillan on sex, war and truth in poetry – books podcast

On this week’s show, Robertson talks about his narrative poem The Long Take and McMillan explores...

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How does our DNA shape who we are? Robert Plomin and Ivy Pochoda – books podcast

Behavioural geneticist Plomin picks apart the idea of nature versus nurture in Blueprint, and...

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Political writing from Terrance Hayes to the Anglo-Saxons – books podcast

As the midterm elections loom, we welcome a poet whose verse is carved from this divided moment...

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Feminist fairytales with Jessie Burton and Kiran Millwood Hargrave – books podcast

We travel to a faraway land, where brave writers fight deadly stereotypes and discover inspiring...

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Anna Burns's Booker prize win and poet Kate Tempest – books podcast

Milkman delivers the 2018 Man Booker prize, while we listen in as a poet discusses the lyric art...

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What is it like being Ravenmaster at the Tower of London? – books podcast

We step back in time for a stroll around the Tower of London with Chris Skaife, who looks after...

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Around the world with Simon Reeve and Neil MacGregor – books podcast

The BBC presenter talks about the travels in his memoir Step By Step, and the celebrated curator...

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Sarah Waters, John Boyne and the 2018 Man Booker prize shortlist – books podcast

As The Little Stranger opens in cinemas, its author considers screen adaptations. Boyne discusses...

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Karl Ove Knausgaard on the end of My Struggle – books podcast

As the final volume of his autobiographical novel arrives in English, the Norwegian literary...

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Kate Atkinson on her new novel, Transcription – books podcast

We sit down with the one and only Kate Atkinson, author of modern classics including Life After...

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Eugenia Cheng and Tim Radford on finding solace in science - books podcast

This week, we turn away from the crowds of catastrophist headlines and dystopian fiction and...

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Daisy Johnson and Michael Hughes on Classical adaptation - books

We hear from two novelists who have taken inspiration from Greek myth. And the Guardian’s chief...

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Paul Kildea on Chopin and Amy Sackville on Velázquez – books podcast

Paul Kildea explores how Frédéric Chopin wrote his Preludes and what became of them after his...

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Navigating modern life with Matt Haig and Christina Dalcher on feminist dystopias – books podcast

We explore the unhealthy nature of modern life with Haig in Notes on a Nervous Planet, while...

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Jericho Brown on poetry, religion and race in the US – books podcast

American poet Jericho Brown talks about his latest collection The New Testament

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Refugees, in their own words – books podcast

On this week’s show, we walk with a group who are using Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to tell the...

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Michael Ondaatje and the Booker longlist – books podcast

We look at the runners and riders in this year’s Man Booker longlist, and hear from Golden Booker...

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