Caroline Moorehead: The Rise of the Mafia and the Struggle for Italy’s Soul
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Caroline Moorehead, whose new book A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia and the Struggle for Italy’s Soul tells the remarkable story o...
4 Feb 39min
How big tech companies steal your attention
This week’s Book Club podcast deals with attention: what it is, why it is in crisis, how it came to be the biggest business in the world, and how we can resist the tech juggernaut that is destroying i...
22 Jan 41min
Joanna Kavenna: How To Play A Game Without Rules
My guest in this week’s Book Club is Joanna Kavenna, who talks about her witty, philosophically riddling new novel Seven: Or, How To Play A Game Without Rules. She tells me about taking her bearings f...
14 Jan 35min
C. Thi Nguyen: How To Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game
In this week’s Book Club podcast, my guest is the philosophy professor C. Thi Nguyen, whose new book The Score: How To Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game asks why rules and scores and metrics are so lib...
7 Jan 44min
Books of the Year | Sam Leith & Philip Hensher
Sam Leith is joined by Philip Hensher to pick over their books of the year. Become a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find out more.Fo...
31 Des 202534min
Speaker series: Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Storm
The Spectator’s associate editor Toby Young sits down with master storyteller Bernard Cornwell, author of more than 50 international bestselling novels, including The Last Kingdom and much-loved Sharp...
17 Des 20251h 4min
Jonathan C. Slaght: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Extinction
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Jonathan C. Slaght, whose new book is Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Extinction. He tells me about these remarkable an...
10 Des 202549min
James Geary: A Brief History of the Aphorism
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is James Geary, talking about the new edition of his classic The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism. He tells me about what separates an aphor...
3 Des 202543min
