100th anniversary of A A Milne and E H Shepard, with James Campbell
On this week's Book Club podcast we're celebrating the 100th anniversary of a landmark in children's publishing, When We Were Very Young — which represented the first collaboration between A A Milne a...
6 Nov 202435min
John Suchet: In Search of Beethoven
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is John Suchet whose new book In Search of Beethoven: A Personal Journey describes his lifelong passion for the composer. He tells me how the ‘Eroica’ was his...
30 Okt 202442min
Rachel Clarke: The Story of a Heart
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Rachel Clarke, author of the Baillie Gifford longlisted new book The Story of a Heart. Rachel tells me how she came so intimately to tell the story of 9-ye...
23 Okt 202447min
Sue Prideaux: Wild Thing, A Life of Paul Gaugin
In this week's Book Club podcast Sam Leith’s guest is the great Sue Prideaux who, after her prize-winning biographies of Nietzsche, Munch and Strindberg, has turned her attention to Gauguin in Wild Th...
16 Okt 202441min
Alan Johnson: Harold Wilson, Twentieth Century Man
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the former Home Secretary Alan Johnson, who joins me to talk about his new biography of Harold Wilson. He tells me about Wilson’s rocket-powered rise to th...
9 Okt 202434min
Malcolm Gladwell: Revenge of the Tipping Point
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Malcolm Gladwell. Twenty-five years after he published The Tipping Point, Malcolm returns to the subject of his first book in Revenge of the Tipping Point:...
2 Okt 202439min
Alan Garner: Powsels and Thrums
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Alan Garner whose new book of essays and poems is called Powsels and Thrums: A Tapestry of a Creative Life. Alan tells me about landscape and writing, scie...
25 Sep 202440min
Lindsey Hilsum: I Brought The War With Me
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Channel 4's international editor Lindsey Hilsum. In her new book I Brought The War With Me: Stories and Poems from the Front Line Lindsey intersperses her ...
19 Sep 202442min
