Independent Bookshop Week, the new Booker Prize Quick Read and other stories
Tira Shubart joins Georgina Godwin for a culture and news roundup. We also speak about Independent Bookshop Week in the UK and Gaby Wood on the new Booker Prize Quick Read.See omnystudio.com/listener ...
13 Jun 30min
Live from the Hay Festival 2026
Live from the 2026 Hay Festival, Georgina Godwin is joined by international director Cristina Fuentes La Roche and the winner of the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize. Plus: a preview of the Badi Market. S...
30 Mai 31min
Stephen Colbert’s final show and Moomins on the road
Emma Nelson and Charles Hecker unpack Stephen Colbert’s final show, Hungary’s proposed constitutional amendment and New York bagel drama. Plus: the Moomin exhibitions at Seattle’s National Nordic Muse...
23 Mai 34min
Trump-Xi summit, UK political turmoil and Eurovision Asia
Isabel Hilton joins Fionnuala Sweeney to discuss the fallout from the Trump-Xi summit, ongoing turmoil in British politics and more. Plus: the debut of Eurovision Asia and a look ahead to Hay Festival...
16 Mai 39min
State of a nation: Reform UK’s success and disaster prepping
Vincent McAviney and Georgina Godwin on Russia’s Victory Day parade and Britain’s growing anxiety. Plus: Amanda Craig on the state of the nation and Christopher Lamb on Pope Leo XIV’s first year. See ...
9 Mai 32min
King Charles III’s speech, the Affordable Art Fair and the International Sea Urchin Festival
Latika Bourke and Georgina Godwin unpack King Charles III’s Washington speech, Trump’s troop withdrawal from Germany and more. Plus: ceramics at Affordable Art Fair Hampstead and Portugal’s Internatio...
2 Mai 31min
Trump’s Falklands threat, World Cup updates and Stockholm Music Week debuts
Georgina Godwin and Isabel Hilton on the UK’s sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, Trump’s World Cup proposal and more of the week’s news. Plus: Stockholm Music Week’s debut and why creative industr...
25 Apr 34min
