Ursula Buchan: Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps
In this week's books podcast, Sam is joined by Ursula Buchan - the author of a hugely involving new life of her late grandfather John Buchan. The book is called Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps (you can r...
15 Touko 201938min
Bret Easton Ellis: White
In this week’s books podcast Sam is joined by Bret Easton Ellis. The author of Less Than Zero, American Psycho and Imperial Bedrooms is here to talk about his first nonfiction book White, and the sava...
8 Touko 201947min
Joseph Stiglitz: People, Power, and Profits.
In this week’s books podcast, the guest is the Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, architect of Bill Clinton’s “Third Way” and former chief economist at the World Bank. His new book People,...
1 Touko 201940min
Nicci Gerrard: What Dementia Teaches Us about Love
In this week’s books podcast Sam is joined by the journalist and (as one half of the crime writer Nicci French) novelist Nicci Gerrard to talk about her new book What Dementia Teaches Us About Love. T...
24 Huhti 201929min
Cass Sunstein: How Change Happens
In this week's Books Podcast Sam is joined by Professor Cass Sunstein - best known here as co-author of the hugely influential 2008 book Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness, ...
17 Huhti 201939min
Clare Carlisle: Philosopher of the Heart
Sam's guest for this week’s books podcast is Clare Carlisle, author of a new life of Soren Kierkegaard, Philosopher of the Heart. Kierkegaard has a reputation for being forbidding, pious and difficult...
10 Huhti 201941min
Clare Mulley: The Woman Who Saved The Children
In this week’s books podcast Sam is talking to Clare Mulley about The Woman Who Saved The Children, her biography of Eglantyne Jebb reissued to coincide with next week’s centenary of Save The Children...
3 Huhti 201925min
Donna Leon: Unto Us A Son Is Born
In this week’s books podcast Sam is joined by one of the doyennes of crime writing, the brilliant Donna Leon. She talks about her latest Commissario Brunetti novel, Unto Us A Son Is Given, about what ...
27 Maalis 201924min
