Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEmily Callaci & Helen Charman: Wages for Housework
In Wages for Housework (Allen Lane) Emily Callaci, professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells the story of a movement that sh…
8 months, 1 week ago
Oluwaseun Olayiwola & Camille Ralphs: Strange Beach
In his debut collection Strange Beach – the very first title in Fitzcarraldo’s new poetry series – poet and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola finds t…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Sue Tilley & Charlie Porter: On Leigh Bowery
From his arrival in London in 1981 – clutching a suitcase and sewing machine – to his death from AIDS on New Year’s Eve 1994, Leigh Bowery – the man …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Deborah Levy & Adam Thirlwell: The Position of Spoons
In The Position of Spoons novelist, essayist and playwright Deborah Levy invites the reader to share in her interior world, mapping her own life thro…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Matthew Hollis & Norman McBeath: The Seafarer
Matthew Hollis has reworked the classic Anglo-Saxon poem The Seafarer into a poem desperately relevant for our times: in a society threatened by clim…
9 months ago
Carol Mavor & Lauren Elkin: Serendipity
In Serendipity (Reaktion) Carol Mavor uses Anne Frank’s journal, discovered in the Secret Annex after the Second World War, Emily Dickinson’s poems, …
9 months, 1 week ago
Philip Terry & Marina Warner: Dante’s Purgatorio
In his 2014 Dante’s Inferno poet and provocateur Philip Terry moved the action to Essex University. His Purgatorio (Carcanet) transports us to nearby…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Fitzcarraldo at 10: Kate Briggs, Brian Dillon & Helen Charman
It’s hard to believe that Fitzcarraldo Editions has only existed for ten years; during that short time, they have published a remarkable selection of…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Tariq Ali & Oliver Eagleton: You Can’t Please All
In You Can’t Please All (Verso), a sort of sequel to his seminal 1987 memoir Street-fighting Years, Tariq Ali continues the story of a life lived fla…
10 months ago
Simon Critchley & James Butler: On Mysticism
From Jesus Christ to Krautrock via Julian of Norwich and T.S. Eliot, Simon Critchley’s On Mysticism (Profile) brilliantly displays the author’s playf…
10 months, 1 week ago