Andrew Doyle and Ian Leslie: How do we disagree?
The public conversation - especially on social media - is widely agreed to be of a dismally low quality. In this week’s Book Club podcast I’m joined by two people who have ideas about how we can make ...
3 Mar 202151min
Cat Jarman: River Kings
My guest on this week’s Book Club is the bioarchaeologist Cat Jarman, whose fascinating new book River Kings spins a global history of the Vikings out of a single carnelian bead found in a grave in Re...
24 Feb 202136min
Judith Flanders: A Place For Everything
My guest in this week’s books podcast is the historian Judith Flanders, whose A Place For Everything tells the story of a vital but little considered part of intellectual history: alphabetical order. ...
17 Feb 202142min
Toby Ord: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
In this week’s books podcast, I’m joined by the philosopher Toby Ord to talk about the cheering subject of planetary catastrophe. In his book The Precipice, new in paperback, Toby argues that we’re at...
10 Feb 202144min
Shalom Auslander: Mother for Dinner
In this week’s Book Club podcast I am joined by one of the funniest writers working today. Shalom Auslander’s new novel is Mother For Dinner, which is set in perhaps the most oppressed minority commun...
3 Feb 202140min
Simon Winchester: Land
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the writer Simon Winchester, whose new book takes on one of the biggest subjects on earth: earth. Land: How The Hunger For Ownership Made The Modern World ...
27 Jan 202142min
Catherine Mayer and Anne Mayer Bird: Good Grief
My guests on this week's Book Club podcast are the writer and Women's Equality Party co-founder Catherine Mayer, and her mother, the arts publicist Anne Mayer Bird. They are mother and daughter -- but...
20 Jan 202142min
What would Orwell be without Nineteen Eighty-Four?
In the first Book Club podcast of the year, we’re marking the moment that George Orwell comes out of copyright. I’m joined by two distinguished Orwellians — D. J. Taylor and Dorian Lynskey — to talk a...
13 Jan 202143min
