Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLive Film Special: Never Let Me Go w/Adam Rutherford
Season 16 Episode 304
Today’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Regent Street Cinema in London: David talks to the geneticist and science writer Adam…
14 hours ago
Now & Then with Robert Saunders: The Brexit Referendum 10 Years On
Season 14 Episode 303
Today’s episode in our occasional series looking at significant political anniversaries explores the causes and consequences of the Brexit Referendum…
4 days, 14 hours ago
Live Special: Jimmy Wales on the Lessons of Wikipedia
Episode 302
Today’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Science Festival: David talks to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about what …
1 week ago
The Great Political Fictions: HHhH
Season 2 Episode 301
Our final great political fiction (for now!) is a meta-fiction and auto-fiction that is also a compelling work of historical reconstruction. Laurent …
1 week, 4 days ago
The Great Political Fictions: The Years
Season 2 Episode 300
The penultimate great political fiction in this series is not strictly a fiction: it’s Annie Ernaux’s retelling of her own life in The Years (2008), …
2 weeks ago
The Great Political Fictions: The Human Factor
Season 2 Episode 299
Today’s political fiction is a spy novel, a Cold War comedy and a meditation on the nature of good and evil: Graham Greene’s The Human Factor. Why ha…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
The Great Political Fictions: The Dispossessed
Season 2 Episode 298
Today’s great political fiction is a path-breaking work of science fiction: David explores Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (1974), which imagines a…
3 weeks ago
The Great Political Fictions: The Golden Notebook Part 2 w/Catherine Taylor
Season 2 Episode 297
In the second of two episodes about Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, David talks to critic and memoirist Catherine Taylor about the novel’s place…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
The Great Political Fictions: The Golden Notebook
Season 2 Episode 296
In today’s episode David explores Doris Lessing’s bold and brilliant The Golden Notebook (1962), a book about female emancipation, political disillus…
4 weeks ago
The Great Political Fictions: Brave New World
Season 2 Episode 295
For the first in a new set of episodes about some of the great political fictions of the past hundred years David explores Aldous Huxley’s much misun…
1 month ago