The Guardian Books podcast
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Subscribers: 1974
Reviews: 2
Episodes: 102
Dennis
Oct 11, 2019
Every time i listen, i learn something, discover a book, question my perspectives. I am a better reader, i read better books because of this podcast. Thank you.
Aaron
Aug 9, 2018
Great literary discussions and interviews.
Description
The Guardian Books podcast is our weekly look at the world of books, presented by Claire Armitstead, Richard Lea and Sian Cain. In-depth interviews with authors from all over the world, discussions and investigations make this the perfect companion for readers and writers alike
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Weekend: episode two of a new podcast
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Weekend: episode one of a new podcast
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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Comfort Eating with Grace Dent: episode one of a new podcast
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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'Our climate crisis is a choice': Christiana Figueres on why we can change the future - books podcast
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Why David Attenborough is famous but 'he isn't a celebrity' – books podcast
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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From diseases to memes, how do things spread? - books podcast
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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Hunting down the 42 paintings of Pieter Bruegel - books podcast
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Glenn Patterson and what to read while self-isolating – books podcast
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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Who was St Paul? With Christos Tsiolkas and Tom Holland – books podcast
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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'What if Gandalf joined The Sweeney?': Ben Aaronovitch on Rivers of London – books podcast
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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Inside the Brontës' fantasy world, and a Booker controversy – books podcast
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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The surprising history of astrology – books podcast
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Maaza Mengiste on the Ethiopian women who fought Italy – books podcast
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Sophie Hannah on the recipe for a perfect crime novel – books podcast
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Adam Rutherford on how to tackle racist pseudoscience - books podcast
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Jonathan Coe and Sara Collins on their Costa-winning novels – books podcast
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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Jeanine Cummins on her explosive new novel, American Dirt
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Samantha Harvey on her year without sleep – books podcast
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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Eoin Colfer on returning to Artemis Fowl – books podcast
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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Our favourite books of 2019, and the most exciting books of 2020 – books podcast
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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Ben Lerner and Meena Kandasamy on autofiction – books podcast
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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Escaping Westboro Baptist Church: Megan Phelps-Roper's journey – books podcast
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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When imagining our future, what can sci-fi teach us? – books podcast
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Elizabeth Strout on the return of Olive Kitteridge – books podcast
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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How true does travel writing need to be? With Rory MacLean and Luke Harding – books podcast
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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'The past is amongst us. Taking notes': nature writing with Kathleen Jamie and Laurie Lee – books podcast
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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'Mexico's drug problem is America's': crime legend Don Winslow – books podcast
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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One language dies every two weeks. How can poetry help? – books podcast
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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The history of the book, from Gilgamesh to now – books podcast
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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The legacy of the Windrush scandal, plus the 2019 Booker prize winners - books podcast
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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'I want world domination!' Lucy Ellmann on her Booker behemoth Ducks, Newburyport – books podcast
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Ann Patchett on her latest novel and facing down Amazon – books podcast
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Is freedom of speech a 'toxic myth'? Plus the top 100 books since 2000 – books podcast
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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From Blair to Cameron: what makes a good political memoir? – books podcast
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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'I felt a huge grief': the challenges of writing about trauma – books podcast
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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Salman Rushdie on retelling Don Quixote in Quichotte – books podcast
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Elif Shafak on Turkey's treatment of novelists – books podcast
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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Does 'the English canon' still shape what we read? – books podcast
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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My friend, the fake German heiress: a true crime special – books podcast
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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How we can learn to stop worrying and love language – books podcast
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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Lisa Taddeo on sex and desire in Three Women – books podcast
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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Ocean Vuong and the new Great American Novel - books podcast
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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Iris Murdoch at 100 and Howard Jacobson on humour and shame – books podcast
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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Intolerance is rising in Europe, but can writers find hope? – books podcast
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Tracy K Smith on the place of poetry in modern America – books podcast
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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Bernardine Evaristo and Lene Wold – books podcast
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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What is it like being a refugee? with Pajtim Statovci and Dina Nayeri – books podcast
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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Women's prize winner Tayari Jones and Sandra Newman – books podcast
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Hay festival special with Pat Barker, John Lanchester, Max Porter and more – books podcast
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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Inside the world of trauma cleaners – books podcast
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May 28, 2019 |
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The life of Alexander von Humboldt, plus foraging for food – books podcast
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May 21, 2019 |
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'You can't sustain a career on shocking people': is Bret Easton Ellis genuine? – books podcast
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May 14, 2019 |
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Heida: the Icelandic model who became a shepherd – books podcast
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May 07, 2019 |
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Joe Dunthorne and Sarah Crossan on poetry and fiction – books podcast
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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Are we too reverent with William Shakespeare? – books podcast
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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The Man Booker international shortlist and Nicole Flattery – books podcast
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and Ian Maleney on soil, family and loss – books podcast
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Nina Stibbe and the price of an expert bookseller – books podcast
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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Why is it so hard for white people to talk about racism? – books podcast
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Therapy on the couch, plus the London book fair – books podcast
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Finding solace in nature, with Luke Turner – books podcast
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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Why have we forgotten Jack the Ripper's victims? – books podcast
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Can rocks influence US elections? Lewis Dartnell on how Earth shapes who we are – books podcast
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Leïla Slimani and Cat Person author Kristen Roupenian – books podcast
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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The most disturbing books we've ever read, with Alice Clark-Platts
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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Jason Reynolds and JD Salinger's posthumous return – books podcast
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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Rethinking masculinity with Thomas Page McBee - books podcast
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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Costa biography prize winner Bart van Es and Mathias Énard – books podcast
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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TS Eliot poetry prize winner Hannah Sullivan and Kevin Powers – books podcast
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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Should we stop working? And the books of 2019 – books podcast
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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Sebastian Barry on James Joyce's Eveline – books podcast
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Jan 01, 2019 |
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Zadie Smith on Giuseppe Pontiggia's Umberto Buti – books podcast
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Dec 31, 2018 |
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Ama Ata Aidoo – books podcast
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Dec 26, 2018 |
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Neil Gaiman on Rudyard Kipling's The Gardener – books podcast
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Dec 25, 2018 |
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Penelope Lively on MR James' Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad – books podcast
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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The best audiobooks to enjoy this Christmas - books podcast
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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Our favourite books of the year, and prose poetry with Claudia Rankine – books podcast
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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Crime and passion with Sara Paretsky and André Aciman – books podcast
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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The art of biography, with Diarmaid MacCulloch and Ken Krimstein – books podcast
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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Myth-making with Sarah Perry and Maria Dahvana Headley – books podcast
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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Robin Robertson and Andrew McMillan on sex, war and truth in poetry – books podcast
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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How does our DNA shape who we are? Robert Plomin and Ivy Pochoda – books podcast
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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Political writing from Terrance Hayes to the Anglo-Saxons – books podcast
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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Feminist fairytales with Jessie Burton and Kiran Millwood Hargrave – books podcast
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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Anna Burns's Booker prize win and poet Kate Tempest – books podcast
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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What is it like being Ravenmaster at the Tower of London? – books podcast
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Oct 09, 2018 |
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Around the world with Simon Reeve and Neil MacGregor – books podcast
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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Sarah Waters, John Boyne and the 2018 Man Booker prize shortlist – books podcast
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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Karl Ove Knausgaard on the end of My Struggle – books podcast
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Kate Atkinson on her new novel, Transcription – books podcast
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Sep 11, 2018 |
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Eugenia Cheng and Tim Radford on finding solace in science – books podcast
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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Daisy Johnson and Michael Hughes on Classical adaptation - books
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Paul Kildea on Chopin and Amy Sackville on Velázquez – books podcast
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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Navigating modern life with Matt Haig and Christina Dalcher on feminist dystopias – books podcast
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Aug 14, 2018 |
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Jericho Brown on poetry, religion and race in the US – books podcast
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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Refugees, in their own words – books podcast
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Jul 31, 2018 |
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Michael Ondaatje and the Booker longlist – books podcast
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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Marcus du Sautoy and James Bridle – books podcast
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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Summer reading and Ross Raisin on how to be a great writer – books podcast
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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The rise of autofiction, with Olivia Laing and Christina Patterson – books podcast
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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Psychedelic drugs: Michael Pollan on the history, science and experience of taking them – books podcast
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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What is it like being a first-time novelist today? – books podcast
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Jun 19, 2018 |