Stephen Dodd: Beautiful Star – Yukio Mishima
In this week's Book Club podcast, our subject is the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima - whose novel Beautiful Star is being published in English for the first time this month. My guest is its translator ...
27 Huhti 202238min
Gideon Rachman: The Age of the Strongman
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the FT’s foreign affairs columnist Gideon Rachman. In his new book The Age of the Strongman, he takes a global look at the rise of personality-cult autocra...
20 Huhti 202245min
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 after Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition circumnavigated the globe, Felipe’s gripping new book Straits: Bey...
6 Huhti 202247min
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 evidence that the disciples and evangelists of Christ were as often women as men? My guests are the scholars ...
30 Maalis 202236min
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 Liberalism and its Discontents. He tells me how a system that has built peace and prosperity since the Enligh...
21 Maalis 202237min
Colm Toibin: Vinegar Hill
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Colm Toibin. Best known as a novelist, Colm’s new book is his first collection of poetry, Vinegar Hill. He tells me about coming late to poetry, the freedo...
16 Maalis 202239min
Tom Burgis: Kleptopia
In this week's Book Club podcast, I'm talking to the investigative reporter Tom Burgis – just days after the High Court threw out an attempt from a London-based company run by eastern European oligarc...
9 Maalis 202253min
Christopher de Bellaigue: The Lion House
In this week’s Book Club podcast, I’m joined by the historian Christopher de Bellaigue to talk about The Lion House, his scintillating and idiosyncratic new book about the great Sultan Suleyman the Ma...
2 Maalis 202239min
