The Lion and the Unicorn by George Orwell
For the second of three episodes recorded at the Port Eliot festival in Cornwall, John and Andy are joined by songwriter and activist Billy Bragg and journalist and critic Suzi Feay to talk about Geor...
20 Aug 20181h
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
For the first of three episodes recorded at this year's Port Eliot festival in Cornwall, John and Andy are joined by author Cathy Rentzenbrink and actor and writer Ben Moor to talk about Pierre Bayard...
6 Aug 201854min
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
John and Andy are joined by Unbound co-founder and co-author of Crap Towns Dan Kieran and returning guest Dr Una McCormack, NYT bestselling novelist and co-director of the Anglia Ruskin University Cen...
23 Jul 20181h 7min
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
John and Andy are joined by writer and editor Nikesh Shukla to discuss Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, ZZ Packer's groundbreaking collection of stories, first published in 2003. Andy also talks about Lissa...
9 Jul 20181h 1min
Told by an Idiot by Rose Macaulay
This week John and Andy are joined by super-librarian Nancy Pearl, possibly the only librarian in the world to have their own action figure, to discuss Rose Macaulay's gloriously eccentric family saga...
25 Jun 20181h 10min
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
For a special episode recorded at the Bath Festival, we discuss Angela Carter's astonishing collection The Bloody Chamber (1979), much of which was conceived while Carter lived in Bath. Andy and John ...
10 Jun 201857min
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Hermione Lee joins John and Andy to discuss the work of American novelist Willa Cather and, in its centenary year, her pioneering novel My Ántonia. John also talks about Wilding by Isabella Tree and A...
28 Mai 20181h 9min
The Fatal Englishman by Sebastian Faulks
The poet Rishi Dastidar joins John and Andy to talk about Sebastian Faulks' least known and first non-fiction title, The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives.Also in this episode Andy talks about the P...
13 Mai 20181h 5min
