How does a nation’s language shape its identity? Hannah Kent on her year in Iceland
When Australian writer Hannah Kent first travelled to Iceland at the age of 17, she had never seen snow before, and didn’t speak a word of Icelandic. Living in a remote part of Iceland during the dark...
17 Nov 202545min
How To Lose Your Country, with Ece Temelkuran (Part Two)
Temelkuran is a brilliant writer, finding humour, hope and humanity in the darkest corners of our current malaise.’ – BRIAN ENO Ece Temelkuran is the award winning Turkish writer and author who was f...
16 Nov 202533min
How To Lose Your Country, with Ece Temelkuran (Part One)
Temelkuran is a brilliant writer, finding humour, hope and humanity in the darkest corners of our current malaise.’ – BRIAN ENO Ece Temelkuran is the award winning Turkish writer and author who was f...
14 Nov 202537min
Why Are We So Addicted to Everything? With Nicklas Brendborg
Are we living in a world designed to hijack our brains? In this episode, Dr Emma Yhnell speaks to international best-selling author Nicklas Brendborg about how supernormal stimuli have become the nor...
12 Nov 202547min
Sotheby’s Talks | The Leonard A. Lauder Collection: Klimt and the Art of Connoisseurship
On today’s episode, an episode from our friends at Sotheby's exploring the remarkable collection of Leonard A. Lauder, one of the greatest collectors and benefactors of the arts in America. At its cen...
10 Nov 202544min
Is This the Twilight of American Supremacy? Simon Jenkins on Why the World Needs the USA
The United States of America is younger than the British Museum and Guinness - in 2026 it celebrates its 250th birthday. How did this vast melting pot of people and ideas come to dominate global polit...
9 Nov 202534min
Olivia Laing on Passion and Heartbreak in the Golden Age of New Italian Cinema
Olivia Laing is an internationally acclaimed writer and critic. They are the author of eight books, including The Lonely City, Everybody and the Sunday Times bestseller The Garden Against Time. Laing’...
7 Nov 202529min
Salman Rushdie on Mortality, Memory and The Eleventh Hour
Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he...
5 Nov 202542min
