255 Episodes

  1. The winner of the 2025 Booker Prize: David Szalay

    Published: 23/11/2025
  2. Kiran Desai on loneliness, legacy and the curse of rewriting

    Published: 16/11/2025
  3. The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 winner: Helen Garner

    Published: 09/11/2025
  4. Richard Armitage and the power of storytelling

    Published: 02/11/2025
  5. Richard Lloyd Parry and the journeys within stories

    Published: 26/10/2025
  6. Olivier Norek on courage, conflict and history

    Published: 19/10/2025
  7. Sam Sussman on the possibility of family ties

    Published: 12/10/2025
  8. Juhea Kim on stories woven from silence

    Published: 05/10/2025
  9. Priyanka Mattoo on the search for home

    Published: 28/09/2025
  10. Michael Wolff on chaos, power and America’s reckoning

    Published: 21/09/2025
  11. R James Breiding on what small nations teach the world

    Published: 17/09/2025
  12. Michelle de Kretser on literature and belonging

    Published: 14/09/2025
  13. Iain Sinclair on London, literature and hidden journeys

    Published: 07/09/2025
  14. Nick Berg on revolutions, exile and the stories that we inherit

    Published: 02/09/2025
  15. Iris Wolff on weaving memory into words

    Published: 31/08/2025
  16. Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan: Exiled voices on Russia

    Published: 24/08/2025
  17. Karin Slaughter on banned books and the fight for truth

    Published: 17/08/2025
  18. The women redefining literary festivals

    Published: 13/08/2025
  19. Nick Harkaway and the legacy of Le Carré

    Published: 10/08/2025
  20. Jean McNeil on bearing witness to a disappearing world

    Published: 03/08/2025

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