Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCults, Communes and Female Rage on the Page, with Amy Twigg
Season 1 Episode 3045
Debut novelist Amy Twigg's book, Spoilt Creatures, tells a story set on a women's commune where things take a dark turn. The novel has earned Twigg praise as one of the Observer newspaper's top 10 be…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
The Poetry of Modern Storytelling, with Olivia Gatwood
Season 1 Episode 3044
A poet, performer, novelist and screenwriter, Olivia Gatwood has received international recognition for her writing, which has focused on topics including coming of age, feminism, gendered violence a…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Jess Phillips on the Challenges of a New Era for British Politics
Season 1 Episode 3043
Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley since 2015, Jess Phillips has never shied away from controversy nor has she been afraid to veer away from Labour Party lines to uphold her political principles. For t…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
What Keeps Tyrants in Power? with Marcel Dirsus
Season 1 Episode 3042
Marcel Dirsus is a political scientist and the author of How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. As Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University, Dirsus mainly works…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Power and Greed on the High Seas, with Olive Heffernan
Season 1 Episode 3041
The award-winning science journalist Olive Heffernan’s work has been featured in National Geographic, New Scientist, The Guardian, BBC Wildlife and more. Her new book is The High Seas: Ambition, Powe…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Imagining London's Future through Fiction, with Joelle Taylor
Season 1 Episode 3040
A truly multifaceted talent, Joelle Taylor is a poet, actor and most recently a novelist, who has written four collections of poetry along with also being a Poetry Fellow of the University of East An…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
The Women Who Shaped the Ancient World, with Daisy Dunn
Season 1 Episode 3039
The award-winning classicist and cultural critic Daisy Dunn is the author of seven books including her latest, The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World through the Women Who Shaped It. …
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Is Telling a Life Story as Easy as ABC? with Sheila Heti
Season 1 Episode 3038
Sheila Heti is a writer from Toronto who has published 11 books since the early 2000s. Those include Motherhood, Pure Colour, and How Should A Person Be? That latter title was a breakout work mixing …
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
CHANEL Connects - The Sparring Partners: William Kentridge and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Season 1 Episode 3037
This episode is brought to you by CHANEL. CHANEL Connects – the acclaimed arts and culture podcast – is back for its fourth season, with nine episodes featuring the artists, curators and thinkers sha…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
A Story of Fine Art, Friendship and Fraud, with Orlando Whitfield
Season 1 Episode 3036
Orlando Whitfield started his career as a dealer in the feverish global art market but left it disillusioned and burnt-out a decade later. Today he works as a writer and his recent book is All That G…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago