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The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Episode 70
Margaret Atwood's famous novel The Handmaid's Tale was published in 1984, a year laden with significance for dystopian views of the future. Some sor…
1 day, 8 hours ago
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
Episode 69
The Tempest is Shakespeare's last play, and many have seen its central character, Prospero, as representing Shakespeare himself, preparing for his de…
1 week, 1 day ago
The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
Episode 68
When Shakespeare wrote The Winter’s Tale, he was an older, though not old, man. It was one of what are often called his late plays, and along with Th…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Autumn Poems – Keats, MacNeice, Frost – with Pip Torrens and Andrew Crean reading
Episode 67
As the exceptional summer of 2026 fades into memory, we look at three autumn poems. John Keats’ To Autumn is the finest of his Odes and one of the gr…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen
Episode 66
As Georgia Oakley's film of Sense and Sensibility is released, Book In looks at Jane Austen's novel. It was the first that she published, but already…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
In conversation with Iain Dale - Have I Said Too Much?
Episode 65
Iain Dale is one of the country's leading broadcasters. His evening radio show on LBC attracts millions of listeners, and for 30 years he has been at…
1 month ago
Re-Release - Philip Larkin Poems
Episode 64
We're swotting up for our next series this week, so sadly haven't had time to record a new episode. Instead, we're re-releasing one of our classics f…
1 month ago
Classic Booker Prize Winners: Offshore - Penelope Fitzgerald
Episode 63
In the early 1960s, a group of old barges and minor naval craft have been converted to houseboats. They are falling apart and so are their owners. Th…
1 month, 1 week ago
Classic Booker Prize Winners: Possession - A.S. Byatt
Episode 62
A.S.Byatt wrote Possession as a completely self-indulgent project, with no thought of commercial or critical consequence. It sold millions and won th…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Classic Booker Prize Winners: The Siege of Krishnapur - J. G. Farrell
Episode 61
The Siege of Krishnapur is set in India in 1857 during the Indian Rebellion (or what used to be known as the Indian Mutiny). The small British commun…
1 month, 3 weeks ago