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Ann Wroe: Lifescapes
Episode 71
Johnny interviews Ann Wroe, obituaries editor of the Economist since 2003, about her new book, Lifescapes: A Biographer's Search for the Soul. It is …
2 years, 11 months ago
Laura Freeman on Jim Ede & Kettle’s Yard
Episode 70
Marina spoke with Laura Freeman about her new book, Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists. Remarkably, this is the first biography of J…
3 years, 2 months ago
Miguel Flores-Vianna: Haute Bohemians: Greece
Episode 69
Miguel Flores-Vianna is a modern Midas of interior design photography; everything his lens touches turns to gold. Haute Bohemians, his first book, wa…
3 years, 3 months ago
Margaret Jull Costa on Javier Marías
Episode 68
It’s a few months since we’ve given a new podcast but we’re delighted to break the silence with a conversation with Margaret Jull Costa, the distingu…
3 years, 3 months ago
Christopher de Hamel: The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
Episode 67
The title could pass off as a short story by M.R. James or as one of the exploits of Robert Louis Stevenson’s little-known, rather Ruritanian sleuth…
3 years, 8 months ago
Jennifer Homans: Mr B.
Episode 66
George Balanchine’s life cut the twentieth century in two. He was a choreographer who trained in Tsarist St Petersburg and reached the peak of his ca…
3 years, 8 months ago
Edward Wilson Lee: A History of Water
Episode 65
A History of Water is a riddling title but the subtitle, Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History, points towards its …
3 years, 11 months ago
Karina Urbach: Alice’s Book
Episode 64
We are delighted to bring you a new podcast with Karina Urbach, author of Alice’s Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother’s Cookbook. It tells the r…
4 years ago
Laura Beatty: Looking for Theophrastus
Episode 63
Laura Beatty could turn straw into gold. In Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher, she describes chancing across the writ…
4 years, 3 months ago
Vashti Bunyan: Wayward
Episode 62
Vashti speaks to Magnus about her new memoir, Wayward: Just Another Life to Live. From London in the Swinging Sixties to a hippie retreat in the Oute…
4 years, 3 months ago