The Shakespeare and Company Interview
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Discover your next favourite book, or take a deep dive into the mind of an author you love, with The Shakespeare and Company Interview podcast.Long-form interviews with internationally acclaimed authors, recorded from our bookshop in the heart of Paris. Hosted by S&Co Literary Director, Adam Biles.Discover all our upcoming events here.If you enjoy these conversations, you can order The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews here.Past guests include: Ottessa Moshfegh, Ian McEwan, Ali Smith, Har Kunzru, Rachel Kushner, Katie Kitamura, Elif Shafak, Claire-Louiose Bennett, Leïla Simoni, Ian Dunt, David Runciman, Richard Powers, Eimear McBride, Armando Iannucci, Lauren Grodd, Lauren Elkin, Recebcca Solnit, John Berger, Hollie McNish, Michael Pedersen, Rob Doyle, Philippe Sands, George Saunders, Edouard Louis, Rachel Cusk, Preti Taneja, Alejandro Zambra, DBC Pierre, Meg Mason, Sandra Newman, David Simon, Joshua Cohen, Geoff Dyer, David Wallce-Wells, Emul Saint-John Mandel, Mohsin Hamid, Tess Gunty, A.M. Homes, John Higgs, Miriam Toews, Kamila Shamsie, Annie Ernaux, William Boyd, David Keenan, Jonathan Coe, Coco Mellors, Tom Mustill, Jeanette Winterson, Sarah Churchwell, Katy Hessel, Don Paterson, Elizabeth McCracken, Meena Kandasamy, Aleksandar Hemon, Catherine Lacey, Xiaolu Guo, M. John Harrison, Dolly Adderton, Hernan Diaz, Kathryn Scanlan, Ben Lerner, Isabel Waidner, Nick Laird, Adam Thirlwell, Mark O'Connell, Marie Darrieussecq, Jo Ann Beard, C Pam Zhang, Naomi Klein...and many, many more. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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William Blake, Sea Monsters, and the Ecstasy of Art, with Philip Hoare
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May 07, 2025 |
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Overnight: Dan Richards on Sleep, Service, and the Secrets of the Small Hours
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Bruise, Heal, Repeat: Anna Whitwham on On Boxing, Loss, and the Female Body
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Solvej Balle on Time, Wonder, and Writing the Impossible *International Booker Prize Shortlist*
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Nobel Prizewinner Abdulrazak Gurnah on Theft, Love, and the Power of Fiction
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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BONUS: Jeremy Pelt on Preserving Jazz Through Storytelling
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Reimagining Moby-Dick, with Xiaolu Guo
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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2016: The Year That Broke Us - with poet and oral-historian Sarah Hesketh
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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The Power of Voice – Sulaiman Addonia on The Seers
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Acts of Resistance: Amber Massie-Blomfield on the Power of Art to Shape a Better World
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Democracy at Risk: Salomé Saqué on Resisting the Far Right
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 2
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Claire-Louise Bennett returns to the Pond
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 1
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Yasmin Zaher on The Coin
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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David Runciman: “The history of ideas is about letting people believe in things that they hadn't previously thought possible…”
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Dorian Lynskey on the Stories We Tell About the End of the World…
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Emmanuel Carrère on V13: “A unique experience of horror, pity, proximity and presence…”
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Denis Hirson: “They Called My Father A One-Man Revolution”
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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BONUS: Lauren Elkin on Scaffolding (in conversation with Amanda Dennis)
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Colombe Schneck on The Paris Trilogy (with Translator Natasha Lehrer)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Lynne Tillman on American History, Human Absurdity, and why Trump should have become a Comedian
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Ayşegül Savaş on Love, Rootlessness, and “The Age of Poetry”
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh)
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake (Booker Prize SHORTLIST 2024)
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Ferdia Lennon on Glorious Exploits
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Roxy Dunn on As Young As This
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Poetry: Ishion Hutchinson reads from and discusses School of Instructions
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Michael Donkor on Grow Where They Fall
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Writing Against Normality, with Samanta Schweblin
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Parenting in the age of AI, with Helen Phillips
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Creating Life from Art, with Catherine Lacey
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Paul Murray on The Bee Sting
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Claire Kilroy on Parenting under the Patriarchy
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Rachel Cusk on Art, Violence and Freedom through Destruction
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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When Radical Art meets Obscene Wealth, with Hari Kunzru
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Sheila Heti on Alphabetical Diaries
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May 23, 2024 |
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BONUS: Celebrating Dylan Thomas with Cerys Matthews…with exclusive live music from Flora Hibberd!
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May 16, 2024 |
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Viet Thanh Nguyen on Memory, Migration and Model Minorities
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May 08, 2024 |
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Ottessa Moshfegh on bringing Eileen to the screen
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Percival Everett on James, his subversive reimagining of Huckleberry Finn
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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On Allen Ginsberg: His life, his work and his archives, with Pat Thomas and Peter Hale
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Bidding adieu to Freeman’s literary journal, with Jakuta Alikavazovic, Deborah Landau, Juan Gabriel Vazquez, and John Freeman
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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On Friendship, with Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Love in the Time of Creative-Writing Classes, with Brandon Taylor
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Annabelle Hirsch, A History of Women in 101 Objects
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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☕Proust Questionnaire: Holly McNish & Michael Pedersen☕
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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BLOOMCAST | HOLIDAY SPECIAL | THE DEAD
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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😱On Witold Gombrowicz’s The Possessed, with Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Adam Thirlwell😱
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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👭🏼Naomi Klein on Doppelgangers, Conspiracy Theories, and the Shadowlands we all inhabit…👭🏼
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Claire-Louise Bennett on Nightflowers, her immersive installation at Museum of Literature Ireland
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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🥘On Eating through the Endtimes, with C Pam Zhang🥘
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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🐕On Life, Art and the Line Between the Two, with Jo Ann Beard🐕
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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👁️Sandra Newman on Julia, her re-imagining of George Orwell’s 1984 👁️
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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⛵Bidding adieu to a literary journal, with John Freeman (Feat. readings from Sandra Cisneros, Aleksandar Hemon, Rebecca Makkai, and Mieko Kawakami read by translator Hitomi Yoshio)⛵
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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🛏️On Not Sleeping, with Marie Darrieussecq🛏️
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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🐖On Populism, Post-Truth, and Piggybacking George Orwell. Adam Biles in conversation with Rob Doyle.🐖
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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💎Sunday Poetry: Emilie Moorhouse reads from Emerald Wounds, her new translation of the poems of Joyce Mansour💎
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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🧠On Making Sense of a Murderer, with Mark O’Connell🧠
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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🗞️On Power, Pamphlets, Parties and Possible Worlds, with Adam Thirlwell🗞️
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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🪄On the KLF, Conspiracies, and Chaos with John Higgs🪄
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Sunday Poetry: Nick Laird reads from Up Late
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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On Writing, Wormholes, and Wasted Opportunities, with Isabel Waidner
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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🏫On writing and translating The Topeka School, with Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovic🏫
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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🏇On Blood, Sweat and Racetracking, with Kathryn Scanlan🏇
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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BONUS: Lex Paulson on Cicero and the Future of Democracy
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Hernan Diaz on his Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, Trust
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Proust Questionnaire: Dolly Alderton!
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Leïla Slimani on Inheritance, Hippies and the Literature of Disappointment
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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BONUS: Martin Amis in conversation with Will Self (2010)
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May 22, 2023 |
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On Anti-Memoir, the Weird, and New Kinds of Disaster, with M. John Harrison
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May 22, 2023 |
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On Unclassifiable Books and Uncategorisable Lives, with Xiaolu Guo
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May 04, 2023 |
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How Westminster Works . . . and Why it Doesn’t, with Ian Dunt
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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✖️On Art, Alternative Histories, and the Arbitrariness of Life with Catherine Lacey✖️
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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📚How to Resist Amazon and Why, with Danny Caine📚
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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On Old Wounds, Finding Peace, and Returning Home, with Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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🗺️On Sarajevo, Multiple Worlds and History at the Fringes, with Aleksandar Hemon🗺️
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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❤️🔥Valentine’s Special: Meena Kandasamy on The Book of Desire❤️🔥
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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On Parents, Grief and the difference between Fiction and Memoir, with Elizabeth McCracken
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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🎸Music, Sugar and other Obsessions, with Don Paterson🎸
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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📚Books of the Year📚
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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👩🎨Katy Hessel on The Story of Art Without Men👩🎨
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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📘BLOOMCAST | HOLIDAY SPECIAL📘
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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🔥Sarah Churchwell on Gone with the Wind, January 6th, and the Lies America Tells🔥
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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🔔Hunchback of Notre-Dame Special! 🔔
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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🐋How to Speak to Whales (and other animals…) with Tom Mustill🐋
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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💋On Love, Loss and Life in New York, with Coco Mellors💋
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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On Writing the Queer, Indigenous Experience with Billy-Ray Belcourt
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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🍫Jonathan Coe on Bournville🍫
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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🍄Psychedelic Storytelling, DIY Magick, and the New Masculinity, with David Keenan🍄
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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🥊 Miriam Toews on Sweary Matriarchs, the Absurdity of Life, and the Human Imperative to Experience Joy🥊
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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🎤 Sunday Poetry: Mark Polizzotti reads his new translations of Arthur Rimbaud🎤
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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🎈William Boyd, The Romantic🎈
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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🏅BONUS: Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize in Literature🏅
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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🐴💰On Friendship and Redemption in the time of the Gold Rush, with Paddy Crewe💰🐴
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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👭🏽On Friendship, Politics and when the Two Collide, with Kamila Shamsie👭🏽
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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🎸🤵♂️The Beatles, James Bond and the British Psyche ,with John Higgs🤵♂️🎸
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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🎤 Sunday Poetry: Tayi Tibble reads from Poūkahangatus🎤
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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🎹Ian McEwan on Lessons🎹
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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🇺🇸 A.M. Homes on Satire, the American Dream, and Reaching Across the Political Divide🇺🇸
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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🐇On Transcendence, Parental Failure & writing Indiana, with Tess Gunty🐇
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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☭🎩When Young Stalin came to London, with Stephen May🎩☭
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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After Sappho, with Selby Wynn Schwartz
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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👨🏼✨Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man✨👨🏾
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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⏳Time Travel, Autofiction & Never-ending Book Tours, with Emily St John Mandel⌛
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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🎓😵💫Disorientation: A Wild Satire of 21st-Century Campus Life, with Elaine Hsieh Chou😵💫🎓
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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🇬🇧🔨How Britain Broke the World, with Arthur Snell🔨🇬🇧
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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🎾Geoff Dyer on Roger Federer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sensing an Ending…🎾
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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👨❤️👨On Love, Grief and Male Friendship, with Michael Pedersen👨❤️👨
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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🎙️🍃Ali Smith on Companion Piece (live in the bookshop!)🍃🎙️
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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🐑Ottessa Moshfegh on Power, Magic…and her Pirate Ancestors🐑
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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🥀On Darkness, Fables and Heartbreak, with Vanessa Onwuemezi🥀
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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A World Without Men, with Sandra Newman (Live at Hey Festival)
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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On Bodies, Freedom and Change, with Olivia Laing
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May 25, 2022 |
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Meg Mason on Sorrow and Bliss
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May 18, 2022 |
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📱Love (and Life) in the time of Algorithms, with Jem Calder📱
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May 11, 2022 |
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🐍🎲Luck, Life and Little Snakes, with DBC Pierre🎲🐍
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May 04, 2022 |
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On imagining what hasn’t, can’t and won’t imagine you, with Margo Jefferson
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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On Prison, Literature and Grief with Preti Taneja
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Superstar Poets and (Step)Fatherhood in Chile, with Alejandro Zambra
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Rachel Cusk & Siemon Scamell-Katz on Writing, Painting and the Vanishing Sublime
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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📘🎸Special Episode: Music for Ulysses with Alex Freiman🎸📘
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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George Saunders on Reading Better, Writing Better, and Living Better
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Memory, Guilt and the Hunt for a Nazi Fugitive with Philippe Sands
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Global Disorder and the road to war in Ukraine, with Helen Thompson
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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On the Pleasures (and Pains) of Rereading, with Rob Doyle
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Dostoyevsky, the Parisian murderer, and the creation of a masterpiece, with Kevin Birmingham
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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An insider’s history of Rock & Roll, with Lenny Kaye
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Poetry, class, and radical performance, with Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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** Valentine's Special ** Love, Language and London with Xiaolu Guo
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Comedy and the Culture Wars, with Andrew Hankinson
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Patrick Hastings, The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Nadifa Mohamed on The Fortune Men
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Introducing Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Rebecca Solnit on Orwell’s Roses
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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A Parisian bus ride with Lauren Elkin
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Claire Messud on A Dream Life
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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BONUS: Cerys Matthews reads A Child's Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Sarah Hall on Burntcoat
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Welcome to Shakespeare and Company: Writers, Books and Paris
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Aysegül Savas on White on White
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Philip Hoare on Albert & the Whale
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Lauren Groff on Matrix
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Poets Richard Barnett and Luke Kennard in conversation
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Katharina Volckmer on The Appointment
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Armando Iannucci on Pandemonium
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Eimear McBride on Something Out of Place: Women and Disgust
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Richard Powers on Bewilderment
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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BONUS PODCAST* Poetry from Archipelago Books
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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David Runciman on Confronting Leviathan
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Anuk Arudpragasam on A Passage North
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Ian Dunt on How to Be a Liberal
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Leïla Slimani on The Country of Others
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Tom McCarthy on The Making of Incarnation
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Claire-Louise Bennett on Checkout 19
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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David Keenan on Monument Maker
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Elif Shafak on The Island of Missing Trees
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Pola Oloixarac and John Freeman, in conversation
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Katie Kitamura on Intimacies
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Jakuta Alikavazovic on Night As It Falls
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Laurent Binet on Civilisations
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Eliot Higgins on We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Pragya Agarwal on (M)otherhood
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan on Francis Bacon: Revelations
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Jennifer Lucy Allan on The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Hari Kunzru on Red Pill
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Rob Doyle and Rachel Kushner in conversation
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Niven Govinden & Musa Okwonga in conversation
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May 27, 2021 |
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Ece Temelkuran on Together: 10 Choices for a Better Now
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May 13, 2021 |
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Rosa Rankin-Gee on Dreamland
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May 06, 2021 |
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Jenni Fagan and Salena Godden in conversation with Adam Biles
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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An extract from Pond, read by Claire-Louise Bennett
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Renga through a Lockdown with Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Naïr
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Lindsey Tramuta on The New Parisienne
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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John Freeman reads from The Park
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Jun 01, 2020 |