Peter Frankopan: The New Silk Roads
In this week's books podcast Sam talks to Oxford's Professor of Global History Peter Frankopan about his follow-up to his bestselling history The Silk Roads. In The New Silk Roads, Peter brings his st...
21 Marras 201837min
Nora Krug's Heimat: reconciling guilt and patriotism in post-war Germany
Sam talks to Nora Krug about her remarkable graphic work Heimat - in which this German born writer and artist discusses how it has felt to grow up in Germany and later the US with the shadow of her ho...
13 Marras 201831min
Geoff Dyer: Broadsword Calling Danny Boy
With Geoff Dyer, one of our most wayward and wittiest writers, about his new book Broadsword Calling Danny Boy, a frame-by-frame discussion of the classic war movie Where Eagles Dare. Learn from Geoff...
7 Marras 201826min
Ben Schott: Jeeves and the King of Clubs
In this week's books podcast Sam talks to Ben Schott. The author of Schott's Miscellany, Ben's literary productions have taken an unexpected turn with the publication this week of his first novel. Jee...
1 Marras 201820min
Robert Plomin: Blueprint
Sam Leith talks to the behavioural geneticist Robert Plomin about his new book Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are, in which he argues that it’s not only height and weight and skin colour that are ...
24 Loka 201835min
Sara Paretsky: Shell Game
Sam talks to the incomparable Sara Paretsky about her latest V. I. Warshawski novel Shell Game — which pits the original feminist gumshoe against art thieves, Russian mobsters and her fink of an ex-hu...
18 Loka 201825min
Andrew Roberts: Walking With Destiny
In this week's books podcast, Sam talks to Andrew Roberts in front of an audience about his new biography on Winston Churchill. It charts the leader's powerful sense of personal destiny, his ambition ...
11 Loka 201831min
William Davies: Nervous States
Political scientist William Davies talks to Sam Leith about his new book Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over The World. Here’s a deep dive into the parlous condition of our public discourse, drawing...
4 Loka 201838min
