Laura Thompson: Life in a Cold Climate
This week's Book Club podcast celebrates the 75th anniversary of the publication of Nancy Mitford's breakthrough novel The Pursuit of Love. Laura Thompson, author of the biography Life In A Cold Clima...
23 Dec 202038min
Nicholas Shakespeare: remembering John Le Carre
In this week's Book Club podcast, we remember the great John Le Carre. I'm joined by one of the late writer's longest standing friends, the novelist Nicholas Shakespeare. He tells me about Le Carre's ...
16 Dec 202036min
Ed Caesar: The Moth and The Mountain
In this week's Book Club podcast, my guest is the journalist Ed Caesar, whose new book The Moth and the Mountain tells the story of a now forgotten solo assault on Everest that ended in disaster. But ...
9 Dec 202036min
Douglas Stuart: Shuggie Bain
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, Douglas Stuart. His first novel, Shuggie Bain, tells the story of a boy growing up in poverty in 1980s Glasgow with an...
2 Dec 202034min
Patrick Barwise and Peter York: The War Against the BBC
Sam Leith is joined by Patrick Barwise and Peter York to talk about their new book The War Against the BBC. They discuss investment in the arts, claims of excessive spending, and Rupert Murdoch's view...
25 Nov 202051min
James Hawes: The Shortest History of England
In this week's Book Club podcast my guest is James Hawes. The bestselling author of The Shortest History of Germany turns his attention in his latest book to our own Island Story: The Shortest History...
18 Nov 202043min
Antony Gormley & Martin Gayford: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now
In this week's books podcast, I'm joined by the sculptor Antony Gormley and the art critic Martin Gayford to talk about their new book Shaping The World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now. They talk ab...
11 Nov 202038min
Carmen Callil: Oh Happy Day
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the publisher and historian Carmen Callil, whose new book Oh Happy Day: Those Times and These Times, tells the story of how her 18th-century ancestors were...
4 Nov 202032min
