The Guardian Books podcast
The Guardian Books podcast is our weekly look at the world of books, presented by Claire Armitstead, Richard Lea and Sian Cain. In-depth interviews with authors from all over the world, discussions and investigations make this the perfect companion for readers and writers alikePodcasts
Weekend: episode two of a new podcast
Published: April 1, 2022, 2:48 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 39 seconds
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Weekend: episode one of a new podcast
Published: Feb. 5, 2022, 5 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 45 seconds
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Comfort Eating with Grace Dent: episode one of a new podcast
Published: July 1, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 46 seconds
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Reverberate: episode 1 of our new series
Published: Feb. 8, 2021, 2:10 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 34 seconds
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Innermost: another episode of our new series
Published: Aug. 3, 2020, 4:26 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 21 seconds
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Innermost: episode 1 of a new series
Published: June 25, 2020, 10:21 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 34 seconds
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'Our climate crisis is a choice': Christiana Figueres on why we can change the future - books podcast
Published: April 21, 2020, 5:45 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 59 seconds
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Why David Attenborough is famous but 'he isn't a celebrity' books podcast
Published: April 14, 2020, 3:26 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 17 seconds
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From diseases to memes, how do things spread? - books podcast
Published: April 7, 2020, 8:59 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 31 seconds
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Hunting down the 42 paintings of Pieter Bruegel - books podcast
Published: March 31, 2020, 1:46 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 38 seconds
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Glenn Patterson and what to read while self-isolating books podcast
Published: March 24, 2020, 6:30 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 48 seconds
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Who was St Paul? With Christos Tsiolkas and Tom Holland books podcast
Published: March 17, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 40 seconds
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'What if Gandalf joined The Sweeney?': Ben Aaronovitch on Rivers of London books podcast
Published: March 10, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 37 seconds
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Inside the Brontes' fantasy world, and a Booker controversy books podcast
Published: March 3, 2020, 10:11 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 24 seconds
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The surprising history of astrology books podcast
Published: Feb. 25, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 7 seconds
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Maaza Mengiste on the Ethiopian women who fought Italy books podcast
Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 2 seconds
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Sophie Hannah on the recipe for a perfect crime novel books podcast
Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 35 seconds
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Adam Rutherford on how to tackle racist pseudoscience - books podcast
Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 3 seconds
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Jonathan Coe and Sara Collins on their Costa-winning novels books podcast
Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 36 seconds
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Jeanine Cummins on her explosive new novel, American Dirt
Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 11:04 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 47 seconds
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Samantha Harvey on her year without sleep books podcast
Published: Jan. 14, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 32 seconds
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Eoin Colfer on returning to Artemis Fowl books podcast
Published: Jan. 7, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 9 seconds
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Our favourite books of 2019, and the most exciting books of 2020 books podcast
Published: Dec. 24, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 50 seconds
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Ben Lerner and Meena Kandasamy on autofiction books podcast
Published: Dec. 17, 2019, 10:30 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 1 second
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Escaping Westboro Baptist Church: Megan Phelps-Roper's journey books podcast
Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 10:53 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 16 seconds
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When imagining our future, what can sci-fi teach us? books podcast
Published: Dec. 3, 2019, 10:35 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 38 seconds
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Elizabeth Strout on the return of Olive Kitteridge books podcast
Published: Nov. 26, 2019, 6 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 59 seconds
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How true does travel writing need to be? With Rory MacLean and Luke Harding books podcast
Published: Nov. 19, 2019, 12:28 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 11 seconds
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'The past is amongst us. Taking notes': nature writing with Kathleen Jamie and Laurie Lee books podcast
Published: Nov. 12, 2019, 12:35 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 34 seconds
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'Mexico's drug problem is America's': crime legend Don Winslow books podcast
Published: Nov. 5, 2019, 6:01 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 42 seconds
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One language dies every two weeks. How can poetry help? books podcast
Published: Oct. 29, 2019, 6 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 32 seconds
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The history of the book, from Gilgamesh to now books podcast
Published: Oct. 22, 2019, 10:51 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 7 seconds
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The legacy of the Windrush scandal, plus the 2019 Booker prize winners - books podcast
Published: Oct. 15, 2019, 7:52 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 52 seconds
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'I want world domination!' Lucy Ellmann on her Booker behemoth Ducks, Newburyport books podcast
Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 10:39 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 19 seconds
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Ann Patchett on her latest novel and facing down Amazon books podcast
Published: Oct. 1, 2019, 9:41 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 5 seconds
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Is freedom of speech a 'toxic myth'? Plus the top 100 books since 2000 books podcast
Published: Sept. 24, 2019, 10:58 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 22 seconds
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From Blair to Cameron: what makes a good political memoir? books podcast
Published: Sept. 17, 2019, 10:40 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 53 seconds
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'I felt a huge grief': the challenges of writing about trauma books podcast
Published: Sept. 10, 2019, 11 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 42 seconds
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Salman Rushdie on retelling Don Quixote in Quichotte books podcast
Published: Sept. 3, 2019, 6 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 28 seconds
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Elif Shafak on Turkey's treatment of novelists books podcast
Published: Aug. 27, 2019, 10:40 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 38 seconds
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Does 'the English canon' still shape what we read? books podcast
Published: Aug. 20, 2019, 6 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 10 seconds
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My friend, the fake German heiress: a true crime special books podcast
Published: Aug. 13, 2019, 6 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 41 seconds
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How we can learn to stop worrying and love language books podcast
Published: Aug. 6, 2019, 6 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 54 seconds
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Lisa Taddeo on sex and desire in Three Women books podcast
Published: July 30, 2019, 10:10 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 17 seconds
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Ocean Vuong and the new Great American Novel - books podcast
Published: July 23, 2019, 6 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 13 seconds
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Iris Murdoch at 100 and Howard Jacobson on humour and shame books podcast
Published: July 16, 2019, 10:03 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 24 seconds
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Intolerance is rising in Europe, but can writers find hope? books podcast
Published: July 9, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 16 seconds
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Tracy K Smith on the place of poetry in modern America books podcast
Published: July 2, 2019, 9:04 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 45 seconds
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Bernardine Evaristo and Lene Wold books podcast
Published: June 25, 2019, 2 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 4 seconds
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What is it like being a refugee? with Pajtim Statovci and Dina Nayeri books podcast
Published: June 18, 2019, 9:28 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 42 seconds
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Women's prize winner Tayari Jones and Sandra Newman books podcast
Published: June 11, 2019, 7 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 13 seconds
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Hay festival special with Pat Barker, John Lanchester, Max Porter and more books podcast
Published: June 4, 2019, 2:28 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 19 seconds
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Inside the world of trauma cleaners books podcast
Published: May 28, 2019, 1:37 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 39 seconds
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The life of Alexander von Humboldt, plus foraging for food books podcast
Published: May 21, 2019, 1:19 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 34 seconds
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'You can't sustain a career on shocking people': is Bret Easton Ellis genuine? books podcast
Published: May 14, 2019, 11:49 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 47 seconds
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Heida: the Icelandic model who became a shepherd books podcast
Published: May 7, 2019, 12:09 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 31 seconds
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Joe Dunthorne and Sarah Crossan on poetry and fiction books podcast
Published: April 30, 2019, 9 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 5 seconds
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Are we too reverent with William Shakespeare? books podcast
Published: April 23, 2019, 9:36 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 4 seconds
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The Man Booker international shortlist and Nicole Flattery books podcast
Published: April 16, 2019, 10:30 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 46 seconds
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Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and Ian Maleney on soil, family and loss books podcast
Published: April 9, 2019, 6:30 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 55 seconds
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Nina Stibbe and the price of an expert bookseller books podcast
Published: April 2, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 8 seconds
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Why is it so hard for white people to talk about racism? books podcast
Published: March 26, 2019, 10 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 9 seconds
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Therapy on the couch, plus the London book fair books podcast
Published: March 19, 2019, 3 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 32 seconds
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Finding solace in nature, with Luke Turner books podcast
Published: March 12, 2019, 2:19 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 44 seconds
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Why have we forgotten Jack the Ripper's victims? books podcast
Published: March 5, 2019, 6 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 2 seconds
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Can rocks influence US elections? Lewis Dartnell on how Earth shapes who we are books podcast
Published: Feb. 26, 2019, 10:24 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 40 seconds
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Leila Slimani and Cat Person author Kristen Roupenian books podcast
Published: Feb. 19, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 27 seconds
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The most disturbing books we've ever read, with Alice Clark-Platts
Published: Feb. 12, 2019, 1:29 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 27 seconds
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Jason Reynolds and JD Salinger's posthumous return books podcast
Published: Feb. 5, 2019, 8 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes
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Rethinking masculinity with Thomas Page McBee - books podcast
Published: Jan. 30, 2019, 8:23 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 44 seconds
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Costa biography prize winner Bart van Es and Mathias Enard books podcast
Published: Jan. 22, 2019, 5:03 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 25 seconds
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TS Eliot poetry prize winner Hannah Sullivan and Kevin Powers books podcast
Published: Jan. 16, 2019, 6 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 11 seconds
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Should we stop working? And the books of 2019 books podcast
Published: Jan. 8, 2019, 6:07 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 27 seconds
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Sebastian Barry on James Joyce's Eveline books podcast
Published: Jan. 1, 2019, 3 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 10 seconds
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Zadie Smith on Giuseppe Pontiggia's Umberto Buti books podcast
Published: Dec. 31, 2018, 3 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 50 seconds
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Ama Ata Aidoo books podcast
Published: Dec. 26, 2018, 3 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 4 seconds
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Neil Gaiman on Rudyard Kipling's The Gardener books podcast
Published: Dec. 25, 2018, 3 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 2 seconds
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Penelope Lively on MR James' Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad books podcast
Published: Dec. 24, 2018, noonDuration: 50 minutes 58 seconds
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The best audiobooks to enjoy this Christmas - books podcast
Published: Dec. 18, 2018, 5:18 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 12 seconds
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Our favourite books of the year, and prose poetry with Claudia Rankine books podcast
Published: Dec. 11, 2018, 7 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 35 seconds
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Crime and passion with Sara Paretsky and Andre Aciman books podcast
Published: Dec. 4, 2018, 5:04 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 20 seconds
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The art of biography, with Diarmaid MacCulloch and Ken Krimstein books podcast
Published: Nov. 27, 2018, 7:04 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 53 seconds
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Myth-making with Sarah Perry and Maria Dahvana Headley books podcast
Published: Nov. 20, 2018, 5:08 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 9 seconds
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Robin Robertson and Andrew McMillan on sex, war and truth in poetry books podcast
Published: Nov. 13, 2018, 12:24 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 25 seconds
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How does our DNA shape who we are? Robert Plomin and Ivy Pochoda books podcast
Published: Nov. 6, 2018, 1:39 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 27 seconds
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Political writing from Terrance Hayes to the Anglo-Saxons books podcast
Published: Oct. 30, 2018, 1:05 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 52 seconds
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Feminist fairytales with Jessie Burton and Kiran Millwood Hargrave books podcast
Published: Oct. 23, 2018, 1:18 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 35 seconds
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Anna Burns's Booker prize win and poet Kate Tempest books podcast
Published: Oct. 17, 2018, 3:44 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 36 seconds
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What is it like being Ravenmaster at the Tower of London? books podcast
Published: Oct. 9, 2018, 1:02 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 seconds
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Around the world with Simon Reeve and Neil MacGregor books podcast
Published: Oct. 2, 2018, 11:50 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 19 seconds
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Sarah Waters, John Boyne and the 2018 Man Booker prize shortlist books podcast
Published: Sept. 25, 2018, 5 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 3 seconds
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Karl Ove Knausgaard on the end of My Struggle books podcast
Published: Sept. 18, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 35 seconds
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Kate Atkinson on her new novel, Transcription books podcast
Published: Sept. 11, 2018, 11:02 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 9 seconds
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Eugenia Cheng and Tim Radford on finding solace in science books podcast
Published: Sept. 4, 2018, 10:19 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 55 seconds
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Daisy Johnson and Michael Hughes on Classical adaptation - books
Published: Aug. 28, 2018, 9:26 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 29 seconds
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Paul Kildea on Chopin and Amy Sackville on Velazquez books podcast
Published: Aug. 21, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes
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Navigating modern life with Matt Haig and Christina Dalcher on feminist dystopias books podcast
Published: Aug. 14, 2018, 8 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 4 seconds
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Jericho Brown on poetry, religion and race in the US books podcast
Published: Aug. 7, 2018, 11:41 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 46 seconds
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Refugees, in their own words books podcast
Published: July 31, 2018, 8:53 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 46 seconds
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Michael Ondaatje and the Booker longlist books podcast
Published: July 24, 2018, 2:58 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 14 seconds
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Marcus du Sautoy and James Bridle books podcast
Published: July 17, 2018, 8:08 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 9 seconds
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Summer reading and Ross Raisin on how to be a great writer books podcast
Published: July 10, 2018, 1:51 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 15 seconds
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The rise of autofiction, with Olivia Laing and Christina Patterson – books podcast
Published: July 3, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes
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Psychedelic drugs: Michael Pollan on the history, science and experience of taking them – books podcast
Published: June 26, 2018, 11:20 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 6 seconds
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What is it like being a first-time novelist today? – books podcast
Published: June 19, 2018, 12:30 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 30 seconds
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Marilynne Robinson on democracy, religion and Donald Trump – books podcast
Published: June 12, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 33 seconds
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Hay festival 2018: the Golden Booker, Akala, Tishani Doshi and more
Published: June 1, 2018, 4:05 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 30 seconds
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American facts and fictions: Lawrence Wright and Amy Bloom – books podcast
Published: May 29, 2018, 2:22 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 29 seconds
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Olga Tokarczuk's Man Booker win and David Graeber on pointless jobs – books podcast
Published: May 23, 2018, 1:58 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 45 seconds
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Madeline Miller and Toby Litt – books podcast
Published: May 15, 2018, 7:38 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 5 seconds
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Exploring mazes with Henry Eliot – books podcast
Published: May 8, 2018, 10:22 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 1 second
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Aminatta Forna on Happiness, plus what are the best crime novels? – books podcast
Published: May 1, 2018, 8:03 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 43 seconds
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The unhealthy truth about doctors - books podcast
Published: April 24, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 39 seconds
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Benedict Wells, plus Man Booker International prize and London book fair news – books podcast
Published: April 17, 2018, 9:09 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 49 seconds
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Lisa Halliday on her novel Asymmetry – books podcast
Published: April 10, 2018, 7 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds
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Mary Beard on women and power – books podcast
Published: April 3, 2018, 8:03 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 37 seconds
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Samantha Harvey on The Western Wind, plus how to define science fiction – books podcast
Published: March 27, 2018, 1:40 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 59 seconds
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Jim Crace on The Melody – books podcast
Published: March 20, 2018, 2:51 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 15 seconds
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Man Booker International and the Women's prize for fiction: where to start reading? – books podcast
Published: March 13, 2018, 5:56 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 7 seconds
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What makes a good short story? With Chris Power – books podcast
Published: March 6, 2018, 11:48 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 59 seconds
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Steven Pinker defends the Enlightenment – books podcast
Published: Feb. 27, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 14 seconds
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Do our memories make us who we are? – books podcast
Published: Feb. 20, 2018, 6:01 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 59 seconds
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Why we need to rethink climate change, with Timothy Morton – books podcast
Published: Feb. 13, 2018, 9:29 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 6 seconds
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LGBT must-reads and a new history of trans Britain – books podcast
Published: Feb. 6, 2018, 2:30 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 48 seconds
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Women and food, and Helen Dunmore's posthumous Costa prize – books podcast
Published: Feb. 1, 2018, 4:48 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 57 seconds
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Peter Carey in conversation - books podcast
Published: Jan. 23, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 53 seconds
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Nikesh Shukla and Julia Kingsford on The Good Agency, plus Tony White - books podcast
Published: Jan. 16, 2018, 4:16 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 31 seconds
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Jonathan Safran Foer on Aleksandar Hemon's The Bees, Part 1 – short story podcast
Published: Jan. 9, 2018, noonDuration: 46 minutes 17 seconds
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David Mitchell on The Monkey's Paw by WW Jacobs – short story podcast
Published: Jan. 5, 2018, 4:34 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 54 seconds
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Stephen Fry on Saki's Sredni Vashtar - short story podcast
Published: Jan. 2, 2018, 8 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 4 seconds
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Neil Gaiman on Rudyard Kipling's The Gardener – short story podcast
Published: Dec. 29, 2017, 8 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 57 seconds
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Penelope Lively on MR James's Oh Whistle and I'll Come to you, my lad - short story podcast
Published: Dec. 26, 2017, 8 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 51 seconds
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Edward St Aubyn's King Lear and the future of literary fiction - books podcast
Published: Dec. 19, 2017, 3:46 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 46 seconds
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1947: When Now Begins and the best books of 2017 – books podcast
Published: Dec. 12, 2017, 2:38 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 50 seconds
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Stephen Fry and Emily Wilson on Greek myths – books podcast
Published: Dec. 5, 2017, 12:30 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 16 seconds
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Max Tegmark and Ken MacLeod on artificial intelligence – books podcast
Published: Nov. 28, 2017, 10:44 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 39 seconds
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Jennifer Egan and M John Harrison – books podcast
Published: Nov. 21, 2017, 10:15 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 32 seconds
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Time-travelling with Michael Brooks and Britt Wray – books podcast
Published: Nov. 14, 2017, 11:53 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 20 seconds
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Richard Flanagan and Jesmyn Ward – books podcast
Published: Nov. 7, 2017, 7 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 55 seconds
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Salman Rushdie on The Golden House, Trump and more – books podcast
Published: Oct. 31, 2017, 9:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 52 seconds
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Halloween reading with Andrew Michael Hurley – books podcast
Published: Oct. 24, 2017, 11:04 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 7 seconds
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George Saunders's Man Booker win and Valeria Luiselli – books podcast
Published: Oct. 18, 2017, 3:56 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 4 seconds
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Maria Alyokhina and Omar El Akkad – books podcast
Published: Oct. 10, 2017, 7 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 19 seconds
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Orhan Pamuk and Nicole Krauss - books podcast
Published: Oct. 3, 2017, 9:53 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 17 seconds
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Can books and poetry make you happier? - books podcast
Published: Sept. 26, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 43 seconds
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Robert Webb on modern masculinity – books podcast
Published: Sept. 19, 2017, 8:28 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 35 seconds
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Kamila Shamsie and Preti Taneja on reimagining classics - books podcast
Published: Sept. 12, 2017, 7 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 40 seconds
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Colm Tóibín in conversation – books podcast
Published: Sept. 5, 2017, 9 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 44 seconds
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Edinburgh book festival with Colson Whitehead and others – books podcast
Published: Aug. 29, 2017, 9:39 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 8 seconds
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Jenny Zhang and Carolina Sanín – books podcast
Published: Aug. 22, 2017, 7 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 45 seconds
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Living with Oliver Sacks and love in later life: Bill Hayes and Sylvia Brownrigg
Published: Aug. 15, 2017, 3:06 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 29 seconds
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Summer reading with John Gordon Sinclair and Horatio Clare
Published: Aug. 8, 2017, 4:46 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 22 seconds
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Man Booker prize 2017 and poet Kayo Chingonyi – books podcast
Published: Aug. 1, 2017, 8:58 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 5 seconds
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Black history: Mumbo Jumbo and Paul Robeson – books podcast
Published: July 25, 2017, 1:13 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 57 seconds
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Sara Pascoe and Lucy Worsley on Jane Austen – books podcast
Published: July 18, 2017, 5:30 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 7 seconds
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Richard Dawkins and Carlo Rovelli on science and culture – books podcast
Published: July 11, 2017, 7 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 7 seconds
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Naomi Klein on neoliberalism and the fightback against Donald Trump – books podcast
Published: July 4, 2017, 2:22 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 33 seconds
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Arundhati Roy on The Ministry of Utmost Happiness – books podcast
Published: June 28, 2017, 2:44 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 2 seconds
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Fair Field: Piers Plowman's Truth – books podcast
Published: June 21, 2017, 11:10 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 27 seconds
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Fair Field: Piers Plowman's world of work - books podcast
Published: June 21, 2017, 11:10 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 45 seconds
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Fair Field: Piers Plowman's dreamworld - books podcast
Published: June 21, 2017, 11:09 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 18 seconds
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Reni Eddo-Lodge and Juno Dawson - books podcast
Published: June 20, 2017, 8:51 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 8 seconds
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Scottish crime fiction with Ann Cleeves and Chris Brookmyre – books podcast
Published: June 13, 2017, 9 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 19 seconds
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The Legend of the Almond Trees, read by Andrew Scott – Travel folktales for kids podcast
Published: June 9, 2017, 10:51 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 50 seconds
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Richard Ford discusses his family memoir – books podcast
Published: June 6, 2017, 11:07 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 43 seconds
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The Dragon of Palma de Mallorca, read by Andrew Scott – Travel folktales for kids podcast
Published: June 2, 2017, 12:04 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 44 seconds
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Hay festival 2017: Cory Doctorow, Helen Fielding and Shashi Tharoor
Published: May 30, 2017, 11:37 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 5 seconds
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The wandering knight of Zagreb, read by Andrew Scott – Travel folktales for kids podcast
Published: May 26, 2017, 10:18 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 9 seconds
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Islands and literature, from Iceland to Jamaica - books podcast
Published: May 23, 2017, 1 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 10 seconds
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Pinocchio and the Field of Miracles, read by Andrew Scott – Travel folktales for kids podcast
Published: May 19, 2017, 9:54 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 42 seconds
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Funny memoirs with Patricia Lockwood – books podcast
Published: May 16, 2017, 1:21 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 3 seconds
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Jack, the Giant Killer, read by Andrew Scott – Travel folktales for kids podcast
Published: May 12, 2017, 4:09 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 15 seconds
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Tony Harrison at 80 - books podcast
Published: May 9, 2017, 12:40 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 53 seconds
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Writing about working class life with Lisa McInerney and Lynsey Hanley – books podcast
Published: May 2, 2017, noonDuration: 37 minutes 38 seconds
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Neil Gaiman on American Gods, Norse Mythology and more – books podcast
Published: April 25, 2017, 10:24 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 4 seconds
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The shadows of war in Primo Levi and Xan Brooks - books podcast
Published: April 18, 2017, 4:44 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 45 seconds
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Sara Baume, Peter Bazalgette and the art of empathy – books podcast
Published: April 11, 2017, 10:37 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 33 seconds
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George Saunders and the Baileys women's prize – books podcast
Published: April 4, 2017, 12:34 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 54 seconds
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Man Booker International prize and Dorthe Nors – books podcast
Published: March 28, 2017, 7 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 59 seconds
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Being a radical optimist with Mohsin Hamid – books podcast
Published: March 21, 2017, 8 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 39 seconds
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Baileys longlist author Ayòbámi Adébáyò, and London book fair – books podcast
Published: March 14, 2017, 11:17 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 43 seconds
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Daniel Dennett on consciousness and 100 years of Anthony Burgess – books podcast
Published: March 7, 2017, 11:56 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 37 seconds
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Fact or fiction: autobiographical novels with Édouard Louis – books podcast
Published: Feb. 28, 2017, 8 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 4 seconds
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Reclaiming history with Yaa Gyasi and Chibundu Onuzo - books podcast
Published: Feb. 17, 2017, 6:40 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 26 seconds
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Michael Chabon on The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – books podcast
Published: Feb. 10, 2017, 5:43 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 50 seconds
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Sebastian Barry on his Costa-winning novel Days Without End – books podcast
Published: Feb. 3, 2017, 5:16 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 13 seconds
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The biography of a paperback – books podcast
Published: Jan. 27, 2017, 7:03 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 8 seconds
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Searching for alien life with Jim Al-Khalili – books podcast
Published: Jan. 20, 2017, 4:43 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 47 seconds
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Alan Bennett discusses Keeping On Keeping On – books podcast
Published: Jan. 13, 2017, 5:01 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 42 seconds
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The Last Poets – books podcast
Published: Jan. 6, 2017, 6:26 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 30 seconds
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Books of the year, with Sarah Perry and Francis Spufford
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Deadly beauty with Ruth Padel and Lucinda Hawksley – books podcast
Published: Dec. 23, 2016, 3 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 1 second
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Nadja Spiegelman and Alex Wheatle - books podcast
Published: Dec. 16, 2016, 6:01 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 6 seconds
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Margaret Drabble and the Ruby Dolls - books podcast
Published: Dec. 9, 2016, 6:19 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 33 seconds
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Alan Moore talks to Stewart Lee – books podcast
Published: Dec. 2, 2016, 6:32 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 2 seconds
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Nordic noir with Kati Hiekkapelto and Antti Tuomainen – books podcast
Published: Nov. 25, 2016, 5:37 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 43 seconds
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Climate change with Amitav Ghosh and Aaron Thier – books podcast
Published: Nov. 18, 2016, 3:50 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 25 seconds
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Jonathan Safran Foer on his novel Here I Am – books podcast
Published: Nov. 11, 2016, 5 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 50 seconds
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Goldsmiths prize and Anakana Schofield – books podcast
Published: Nov. 4, 2016, 4:49 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 14 seconds
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Susan Hill on ghost stories – books podcast
Published: Oct. 28, 2016, 5:09 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 11 seconds
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Booker finalist Paul Beatty and Super Thursday – books podcast
Published: Oct. 21, 2016, 5:12 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 41 seconds
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Colin Thubron and John Aggleton on memory – books podcast
Published: Oct. 14, 2016, 5:15 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 43 seconds
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Naomi Alderman, Lauren Beukes and Alastair Reynolds on gender politics and scifi – books podcast
Published: Oct. 7, 2016, 5:12 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 47 seconds
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Ultimate questions with Adam Biles and Sean Carroll – books podcast
Published: Sept. 30, 2016, 4:46 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 43 seconds
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Amos Oz on his novel Judas – books podcast
Published: Sept. 23, 2016, 4:28 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 45 seconds
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Deborah Levy and the Booker shortlist – books podcast
Published: Sept. 16, 2016, 4:04 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 7 seconds
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Tricks of the mind with David Means and Marc Lewis – books podcast
Published: Sept. 9, 2016, 4:34 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 47 seconds
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Rachel Weisz reads from The Constant Gardener by John le Carré – books podcast
Published: Sept. 9, 2016, 11 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 45 seconds
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Simon Russell-Beale reads from The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré – books podcast
Published: Sept. 8, 2016, 11 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes
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