The Hatchards Podcast

By Ryan Edgington and Matt Hennessey

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The Hatchards Podcast is a conversation show about books brought to you by England’s oldest bookshop. Featuring interviews with some of our favourite authors, bookish waffle, and the occasional glass of wine. Hosted by Ryan Edgington. Produced by Lily Woods and Matt Hennessey. 

Episode Date
Edward Chisholm on Murder in Paris ’68: Film Stars, French Presidents, and a Fatal Cover-Up
May 05, 2026
Jean-Noël Orengo on You Are the Fuhrer's Unrequited Love
Apr 07, 2026
Antony Beevor on Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs
Mar 17, 2026
Julian Sancton on Neptune’s Fortune: Castro, Cousteau, and a Billion-Pound Treasure
Feb 17, 2026
Tom Sachs on Frank Gehry, Guillotines, and ‘The Tom Sachs Guide’
Jan 27, 2026
Maggie O’Farrell on Adapting ‘Hamnet’ for the Big Screen
Jan 06, 2026
Katy Hessel on How to Live an Artful Life: Seasons, Sacrifice, and More of the ‘Story’
Nov 11, 2025
Olivia Laing on The Silver Book: Italy, Illusion, and Intransigence
Nov 04, 2025
Benjamin Myers on Jesus Christ Kinski: Berlin, Biography, and Bad Behaviour
Oct 21, 2025
Lyse Doucet on The Finest Hotel in Kabul: Freedom and Frontline Journalism
Sep 23, 2025
Roger Lewis on The Life and Death of Peter Sellers: Goons, Ghosts, and Destructive Genius
Aug 19, 2025
Francesca Wade on Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, the Avant-Garde, and Alice B. Toklas
Jun 24, 2025
Graydon Carter on When the Going Was Good: Velvet Ropes, Veritas, and Vanity Fair
May 20, 2025
Philippe Sands on 38 Londres Street: Pinochet, Prosecution, and a Nazi in Patagonia
Apr 29, 2025
Charlie Porter on Nova Scotia House: Relationships, Radicals, and Reclamation
Apr 15, 2025
Lola Kirke on Wild West Village: Fame, Family, and Finding Your Voice
Mar 18, 2025
Laurent Binet on Perspectives: Michelangelo, Mannerism, and Murder
Feb 25, 2025
RaMell Ross on Nickel Boys: Colson Whitehead’s Masterpiece on the Screen
Jan 07, 2025
Lili Anolik on Didion & Babitz: Joan’s Bethlehem vs Eve’s Bedlam
Dec 24, 2024
Karl Ove Knausgaard on The Third Realm: Transcendence, Translation, and Twin Peaks
Oct 22, 2024
Richard Ayoade on The Unfinished Harauld Hughes: Salinger, Sanctimony, and Spinal Tap
Oct 08, 2024
Simon Russell Beale on A Piece of Work: Shakespeare, Stalin, and Sam Mendes
Oct 01, 2024
Alan Hollinghurst on Our Evenings: Acting, Aging, and Adventures in Wonderland
Sep 24, 2024
Elif Shafak on There Are Rivers in the Sky: The Tigris and the Thames
Aug 06, 2024
Griffin Dunne on The Friday Afternoon Club: Joan Didion, Dominick Dunne, and His Days in Hollywood
Jul 16, 2024
Lauren Elkin on Scaffolding: Fidelity, Freedom, and the French New Wave
Jul 02, 2024
Richard Flanagan on Question 7: HG Wells, Hiroshima, and How to Live
Jun 11, 2024
Rachel Khong on Real Americans: Mao, Memory, and Multigenerational Trauma
May 14, 2024
Percival Everett on James: Mark Twain, Tennis, and Nat Turner's Rebellion
May 02, 2024
Andrew O'Hagan on Caledonian Road: Dickens, Drill Gangs, and the Dark Web
Apr 02, 2024
Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams on Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey
Feb 20, 2024
Hisham Matar on My Friends: London, Libya, and Living in Exile
Jan 30, 2024
Dolly Alderton on Good Material: Heartbreak, Millennial Hatred, and Male Pattern Baldness
Dec 12, 2023
Zadie Smith on The Fraud: Lies from Victorian England to OJ Simpson
Nov 14, 2023
Roger Lewis on the 'Erotic Vagrancy' of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
Oct 24, 2023
Benjamín Labatut on The Maniac: From the Atomic Bomb to Artificial Intelligence
Sep 27, 2023
Anna Funder on Wifedom: The Lost Woman Behind George Orwell
Aug 28, 2023
Wes Anderson on Do Not Detonate: Film Criticism and the Influences Behind 'Asteroid City'
Jun 27, 2023
David Grann on The Wager: Shipwreck, Sedition, and Martin Scorsese
May 16, 2023
Ian Dunt on How Westminster Works... and Why It Doesn't
Apr 19, 2023
Alice Winn on In Memoriam: From Tennyson to the Trenches
Mar 21, 2023
Sarah Watling on Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Solidarity and the Spanish Civil War
Feb 14, 2023
Bret Easton Ellis on The Shards: Lost Youth in Los Angeles
Jan 17, 2023
Bill Nighy on Hatchards, ‘Living’, and Kazuo Ishiguro
Dec 20, 2022
Jerry Saltz on Why Art is Life
Dec 06, 2022
Nick Hornby on Charles Dickens and Prince
Nov 15, 2022
Melissa Newman on Paul Newman, Her Iconic Father
Nov 02, 2022
David Hepworth on Abbey Road
Oct 11, 2022
Katy Hessel on The Story of Art Without Men
Sep 06, 2022
Tess Gunty on The Rabbit Hutch
Jul 19, 2022
Geoff Dyer on Death and Bob Dylan
Jun 21, 2022
Edward Chisholm on Waiting in Paris
May 24, 2022
Emma Smith on Burning Books
May 10, 2022
Ben Hinshaw on Exactly What You Mean
Apr 19, 2022
Oliver Bullough on Butlers, British Tax Criminals, and Bertie Wooster
Apr 05, 2022
Colm Tóibín on Thomas Mann
Mar 22, 2022
Philip Oltermann on The Stasi Poetry Circle
Mar 08, 2022
Max Porter and James Birch on Francis Bacon
Feb 22, 2022
Caleb Azumah Nelson on Open Water, Southeast London, and Moonlight
Feb 08, 2022
Roger Katz on the Golden Age of Bookselling
Jan 25, 2022
Natasha Brown on Assembly and Deadpool
Jan 11, 2022
The Advent Calendar: Joanna Lumley and Gyles Brandreth
Dec 09, 2021
The Advent Calendar: Dominic Sandbrook
Dec 08, 2021
The Advent Calendar: Henry Eliot
Dec 05, 2021
The Advent Calendar: William Sieghart
Dec 05, 2021
The Advent Calendar: Clare Jackson
Dec 05, 2021
The Advent Calendar: Philip Hook
Dec 05, 2021
William Boyd and the Swinging Sixties
Oct 31, 2021
John Cleese on Comedy, Craft, and Creativity
Aug 04, 2021