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Neil Price: The Sea-King and the Sorceress
Episode 90
When you think of the Vikings – if you ever do – where do you think your information comes from? If we tend to think of them all as marauders, it’s p…
11 hours ago
Andrea Wulf: The Traveller
Episode 89
A month before Cook was intending to embark on his second voyage, he took his ship, the Resolution, for a test run on the Thames. He had a particular…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Catherine Ostler: The Renoir Girls
Episode 88
It is impossible to tell from Renoir’s celebrated portrait of two delightful, pampered-looking girls that its subject — and their family at large — …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Suzanne Simard: When the Forest Breathes
Episode 87
Simard is a genius of modern forest ecology. Her first book, Finding the Mother Tree, was at the vanguard of humanity’s understanding of the intercon…
4 months, 1 week ago
Jane Rogoyska: Hotel Exile
Our first podcast for 2026 is with Jane Rogoyska, the author of Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War. Divided into three parts, it tells the story…
6 months ago
Juliet Nicolson: The Book of Revelations
Episode 86
We are delighted to have Juliet back on our podcast. Her books have been regular bestsellers at Sandoe’s: The Perfect Summer, A House Full of Daught…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Charles Darwent: Monsieur Ozenfant's Academy
Episode 85
A mentor to Le Corbusier, Ozenfant was an artist and critic who ran art schools in Paris and London in the 1920s and ’30s. Highly regarded, he knew e…
11 months ago
Jonas Hassen Khemiri: The Sisters
Episode 84
We are delighted to bring you a new episode of our podcast: a conversation with Jonas Hassen Khemiri. He is a Swedish novelist and playwright, a teac…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Horatio Clare: We Came By Sea
Episode 83
Horatio is an outstanding writer of literary non-fiction. He’s written before about life on a container ship and on an icebreaker, three memoirs, tw…
1 year, 2 months ago
Tim Bouverie: Allies at War
Episode 82
Bouverie's first book, Appeasing Hitler, was a tremendous success. His second — a history of the alliance that won the war — is once again fascinati…
1 year, 4 months ago