The Book Club

Literary interviews and discussions on the latest releases in the world of publishing, from poetry t

Episodes

Total: 411

In this week’s podcast, we're replaying an episode that first aired earlier this year, but seems mor

In this week's books podcast my guest is Kate Teltscher, who tells the fascinating story of one of t

On this week's books podcast, my guess is Oxford University's Professor of European Archaeology, Chr

This week's Book Club podcast is brought to you rather later than we'd planned. In spring this year,

Andrés Neuman: Fracture

2020/7/8

In this week's Book Club podcast my guest is the Argentine-born novelist Andrés Neuman, who was accl

In this week's books podcast I'm joined by Alan Johnson and Andrew Adonis to talk about the latter's

Rutger Bregman: Humankind

2020/6/24

In this week’s Book Club podcast my guest is the historian Rutger Bregman. In his new book Humankind

In this week's Book Club podcast, my guest is the writer Susanna Moore. Best known for her pitch-bla

Adam Begley: Houdini

2020/6/10

My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the biographer Adam Begley. Adam's work includes biogra

Is there life, as David Bowie wondered, on Mars? In this week's Book Club podcast my guest is the as

In this week's Book Club podcast we're talking about Brideshead Revisited. Evelyn Waugh's great nove

My guest for this week’s Book Club podcast is the great Michael Frayn, talking about his new book of

In this week’s Book Club podcast my guest is the writer and human rights lawyer Philippe Sands. His

In this week's books podcast I'm joined by Mark O'Connell, a writer whose latest book Notes from an

In this week's books podcast I'm joined from across the Atlantic by the eminent Shakespearean James

Salman Rushdie: Quichotte

2020/4/22

‘Things that would have seemed utterly improbable now happen on a daily basis’, Sir Salman Rushdie

Toby Muse: Kilo

2020/4/15

In this week's Book Club podcast, I talk to the reporter Toby Muse about the vast, blood-soaked and

My guest in this week's podcast is the multi-talented satirist Craig Brown, whose new book One Two T

This week's Book Club podcast features one of the great wise men of the literary world: Professor Jo

Blake Gopnik: Warhol

2020/3/25

On this week’s Book Club podcast, Sam is joined by Blake Gopnik — the author of a monumental new bio