Anti-Vax Sentiments
Rivka Galchen talks to Tom about two recent books on the history of vaccine opposition and reluctance, from smallpox to covid, including the role of 'Big Supplement' and the effectiveness of mandates....
25 Jan 202234min
Myself with Others: Claudia Roden
In the third and final guest episode from a new podcast series, Myself with Others, food writer Claudia Roden talks to Adam Shatz about her early life in Cairo and Paris, her obsession with collecting...
18 Jan 20221h 13min
Myself with Others: James Lasdun
In this second guest episode from a new podcast series, Myself with Others, novelist, memoirist and poet James Lasdun talks to Adam Shatz about his taste for the Middle Ages, the power of Patricia Hig...
11 Jan 20221h 10min
Myself with Others: Margo Jefferson
In the first of three guest episodes from a new podcast, Myself with Others, hosted by Adam Shatz, writer and critic Margo Jefferson talks about her childhood in Chicago, her early experiences in radi...
4 Jan 20221h 14min
Alan Bennett: Diary for 2021
Alan Bennett reads his diary for 2021, in which he falls over Philip Roth, changes the course of English history, and considers selling his har on eBay. Bennett read the first part of this diary earli...
28 Dec 202140min
The Omicron Wave
John Lanchester and Rupert Beale talk to Tom about the spread of the latest variant, where we might stand in the story of Covid, and the failures of the state in coping with the pandemic. Find their p...
14 Dec 202144min
The Guatemalan Coup
Rachel Nolan talks to Tom about the overthrow of President Árbenz in Guatemala in 1954, its importance as a model for CIA-backed regime change across Latin America, and a new novel about it by Mario V...
30 Nov 202145min
A History of Revolution
Enzo Traverso talks to Adam Shatz about his new book on the history of revolutionary passions, images and ideas, from Haiti’s emancipatory slave rebellion in 1791 to Stalin’s top-down authoritarianism...
23 Nov 20211h 1min
