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Eileen Atkins: Will She Do?
Episode 61
Dame Eileen is joined by the novelist Salley Vickers to talk about Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage. It is a marvellous memoir, beginning wit…
4 years, 4 months ago
Robert Edric: My Own Worst Enemy
Johnny once wrote of Robert Edric that 'his was the most significant body of work from a novelist in a generation.' He has written over twenty novels…
4 years, 6 months ago
Salley Vickers: The Gardener
Episode 60
Salley Vickers wrote her latest novel in a Wiltshire cottage during lockdown. She talks to Johnny about the importance of gardening while writing, Sh…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Great Carp Ferdinand: A Wintry Tale by Eva Ibbotson
Episode 59
In anticipation of Christmas and the excitement of the coming weeks, we are thrilled to present a reading of one of Eva Ibbotson’s short stories. Som…
4 years, 8 months ago
Mark Mazower: The Greek Revolution
Episode 58
2021 marks 200 years since the Greek Revolution and Mark Mazower's new book - The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe - is as time…
4 years, 9 months ago
Colin Thubron: The Amur River
Episode 57
Some may have supposed that Thubron had done his last Big Journey (he is now 82), but this is arguably his biggest yet, and most arduous. Indomitabl…
4 years, 10 months ago
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts
Episode 56
Craxton, that wonderful painter and funny, lovely man, could be in no better hands than Ian Collins’s… This biography is all that might be hoped for …
5 years ago
James Marriott: Crude Britannia
Episode 55
James Marriott and his co-author Terry Macalister have spent decades researching and writing about the oil industry. Their new book plunges us into t…
5 years, 1 month ago
Charles Saumarez Smith: The Art Museum in Modern Times
Episode 54
The former head of the National Gallery, NPG and Royal Academy talks openly about the art museum's place in society today.
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5 years, 1 month ago
Olivia Laing: Everybody
Episode 53
OL talks to Magnus Rena about her new book, Everybody: A Book about Freedom. It's a sweeping, collective biography of a dozen glamorous but stifled f…
5 years, 2 months ago