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Chloe Dalton: Raising Hare
Episode 81
Dalton, who has worked for over a decade as a parliamentary and Foreign Office policy advisor and speech-writer, found herself raising a leveret in …
1 year, 7 months ago
Lucy Hughes-Hallett: The Scapegoat
Episode 80
The scapegoat in question is the Duke of Buckingham: favourite and lover of James I and beloved friend of his son; husband, father, art collector, t…
1 year, 9 months ago
Mother State: Helen Charman in Conversation with Kate Briggs
Episode 79
'motherhood is frequently politicised, but rarely acknowledged in all its fullness to be political'
We were delighted that Helen Charman, a Fellow at…
1 year, 9 months ago
William Dalrymple: The Golden Road
Episode 78
Five years - almost to the day - since the first episode of the Sandoe's podcast, we welcome back the very first author to have graced our airwaves:…
1 year, 11 months ago
Rupert Thomson: How to Make a Bomb
Episode 77
Rupert Thomson has attracted the kind of critical acclaim which would flatter any rockstar, let alone writer. He's been compared to Dickens, Kafka an…
2 years ago
Giles Milton: The Stalin Affair
Episode 76
Acclaimed historian Giles Milton (Checkmate in Berlin, Nathaniel's Nutmeg, Paradise Lost) talks to Johnny about his new book on the US and Britain's …
2 years, 1 month ago
Es Devlin on the Art of Set Design
Episode 75
Es Devlin's name will be familiar to some; many will have seen her work without realising it. Winner of three Olivier awards, her work ranges from sm…
2 years, 3 months ago
Roland Philipps on Roger Casement
Episode 74
Casement was one of the first to expose the horrors of the Belgian Congo and the Peruvian rubber industry. In 1911 he was knighted; five years later …
2 years, 4 months ago
Anna Reid: A Nasty Little War
Episode 73
A conversation with Anna Reid. Many will know her from Borderland, a brilliant history of Ukraine. Her new book, A Nasty Little War, is a fascinating…
2 years, 6 months ago
Thomas Harding on George Weidenfeld
Episode 72
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing is a brilliant biography of a complicated man. It's not a cradle-to-grave doorstoppe…
2 years, 11 months ago