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Poets Richard Barnett and Luke Kennard in conversation
This week Adam is joined by poets Richard Barnett and Luke Kennard. Richard Barnet’s WHEREVER WE ARE WHEN WE COME TO THE END is an imagining of the e…
4 years, 5 months ago
Katharina Volckmer on The Appointment
Buckle up! This week we welcome Katharina Volckmer discussing her wild, taboo-busting debut novel The Appointment, a transgressive, spiky, astonishin…
4 years, 6 months ago
Armando Iannucci on Pandemonium
This week Adam Biles is joined by comedy-legend Armando Iannucci to discuss Pandemonium, his riotously funny, but also deeply affecting mock-epic abo…
4 years, 6 months ago
Eimear McBride on Something Out of Place: Women and Disgust
This week our guest is the brilliant Eimear McBride, discussing her first book of non-fiction Something Out of Place. Beginning with the sentiment o…
4 years, 6 months ago
Richard Powers on Bewilderment
Our guest this week is Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers, discussing Bewilderment, his moving and visionary, Booker-shortlisted novel about a bere…
4 years, 6 months ago
BONUS PODCAST* Poetry from Archipelago Books
This special podcast is a collaboration with our friends at Archipelago books, showcasing three of their wonderful poetry titles: Acrobat by Nabaneet…
4 years, 6 months ago
David Runciman on Confronting Leviathan
This week Adam Biles is joined by David Runciman, Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the presenter of the hugely popular Talking Polit…
4 years, 7 months ago
Anuk Arudpragasam on A Passage North
This week we’re joined Anuk Arudpragasm to discuss A Passage North, his Booker-shortlisted story of age and youth, loss and survival in Sri Lanka.Buy…
4 years, 7 months ago
Ian Dunt on How to Be a Liberal
This week Ian Dunt joined Adam Biles to discuss How to Be a Liberal, his immensely readable history of, and rallying cry for, “the single most radica…
4 years, 7 months ago
Leïla Slimani on The Country of Others
This week we’re joined by the brilliant Leïla Slimani to discuss The Country of Others, her immensely readable, deeply moving, Steinbeckian family dr…
4 years, 7 months ago