Matthew Hollis: The Waste Land
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Matthew Hollis, author of The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem. In the tail end of this centenary year of the great monument of modernist poetry, Matthew ...
7 Des 202252min
Rupert Shortt: The Hardest Problem
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Rupert Shortt, whose stimulating new book The Hardest Problem addresses one of the oldest difficulties in theology: "the problem of evil". Is this somethin...
30 Nov 202252min
James Heale and Sebastian Payne: Out of the Blue and The Fall of Boris Johnson
In this week’s Book Club podcast, I’m talking to two of the brave souls who turn recent political dramas into the sort of quickly written books we might call the second draft of history. I’m joined by...
23 Nov 202241min
Edward Mendelson: Complete Poems of W H Auden
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Edward Mendelson, who with the publication of the Complete Poems of W H Auden in two volumes now sets the crown on more than half a century of scholarship ...
16 Nov 202241min
Christopher de Hamel: The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
My guest in this week's Book Club Podcast is Christopher de Hamel, author of the new The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club. He tells me about the enduring fascination of illuminated manuscript...
9 Nov 202241min
Ian Rankin: A Heart Full of Headstones
This week’s Book Club podcast is a live special, recorded at this year’s inaugural Braemar Literary Festival. I’m talking to Sir Ian Rankin, in an exclusive pre-publication event, about his new Rebus ...
2 Nov 202238min
Andrey Kurkov: Diary of an Invasion
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov – who has this year become one of the most articulate ambassadors to the West for the situation in his homeland. As a ...
26 Okt 202230min
Matt Lodder: Painted People
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the art historian Dr Matt Lodder, whose new book is Painted People: Humanity in 21 Tattoos. He tells me how much more there is to the history of painting o...
19 Okt 202259min
