Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells: All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
In this week's Book Club podcast I talk to Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells about their new book All The Sonnets of Shakespeare - which by collecting the sonnets that appear in the plays with the 154 ...
26 Aug 202040min
Loyd Grossman: An Elephant in Rome
In this week's books podcast, my guest is that man of parts Loyd Grossman. Loyd's new book is An Elephant in Rome: Bernini, the Pope, and the Making of the Eternal City, which explores the titanic inf...
19 Aug 202037min
Sam Harris on the value of conversation
In this week's Book Club podcast I'm joined by the philosopher, scientist and broadcaster Sam Harris - host of the hugely popular Making Sense podcast. Sam's new book is a selection of edited transcri...
12 Aug 20201h 5min
Adam Rutherford and Thomas Chatterton Williams: talking about race
In this week’s podcast, we're replaying an episode that first aired earlier this year, but seems more relevant now than ever. Sam is joined by two writers to talk about the perennially fraught issue o...
5 Aug 202044min
Kate Teltscher: Palace of Palms
In this week's books podcast my guest is Kate Teltscher, who tells the fascinating story of one of the greatest showpieces of Victorian Britain: the Palm House in Kew Gardens. Though the gardens and t...
29 Juli 202039min
Chris Gosden: The History of Magic
On this week's books podcast, my guess is Oxford University's Professor of European Archaeology, Chris Gosden. Chris's new book The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, From the Ice Age to th...
22 Juli 202044min
Robin Hanbury-Tenison: Taming The Four Horsemen
This week's Book Club podcast is brought to you rather later than we'd planned. In spring this year, the explorer and writer Robin Hanbury-Tenison was due to be talking to me about his new book Taming...
15 Juli 202032min
Andrés Neuman: Fracture
In this week's Book Club podcast my guest is the Argentine-born novelist Andrés Neuman, who was acclaimed by the late Roberto Bolano as the future of Spanish-language fiction. We talk about boundary-c...
8 Juli 202048min
