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Fiona Sampson on Limestone Country

by podmeister

W H Auden wrote: when I try to imagine a faultless love Or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur Of underground streams, but what I see is a limestone landscape Fiona Sampson too hears the murmur of underground streams. She describes at the start of her recent book Limestone Country the shock, the epiphany, of realising that most of her...

30 June 2018
biography and memoir, podcasts, travel

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History and Politics

7 March 2018

Alison Leslie Gold, ‘salvager of other people’s stories’

  This is a podcast I produced for Notting Hill Editions with Alison Leslie Gold, who is perhaps best...

by podmeister
24 July 2017

The hammer and the cross – rethinking the Vikings

I heard an interesting interview with Robert Ferguson on the New York Times Books podcast at the weekend in...

by podmeister
7 July 2017

Philip Hoare on Leviathan

I see that Philip Hoare is publishing the third volume of his trilogy about the sea next week. RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR...

by podmeister
9 August 2016

Olympic Games, 388 BC style

What would it have been like to spend five days attending the ancient Greek Olympics in 388 BC? That’s...

by podmeister
22 May 2015

LMD podcast: Ed Emery on the Kurdish songbook project

My guest in the most recent podcast for Le Monde diplomatique was Ed Emery, who is an ethnomusicologist at...

by podmeister
31 March 2015

From the archive: Kat Banyard on The Equality Illusion

Here’s a ten-minute video interview I did with Kat Banyard four years ago about her book, The Equality Illusion:...

by podmeister
9 March 2015

LMD podcast: Ibrahim Warde on HSBC scandals

Will the fresh revelations about tax evasion through HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary actually lead to any major prosecutions? Previous tax...

by podmeister
Graham Farmelo
31 January 2015

Graham Farmelo on Churchill’s Bomb

I thought this might be an appropriate time to re-post my interview with Graham Farmelo from December 2013 about...

by podmeister

literature

history and politics, literature, podcasts

Alison Leslie Gold, ‘salvager of other people’s stories’

  This is a podcast I produced for Notting Hill Editions with Alison Leslie Gold, who is perhaps best known for her book Anne Frank Remembered, which she wrote...

7 March 2018
literature, podcasts

Ishiguro on Nocturnes

And here is the part of my interview with Kazuo Ishiguro in which I talk to him about his short story collection, Nocturnes. This was recorded first (hence it’s...

5 October 2017
literature, podcasts

Two-part interview with 2017 Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro

Half a dozen years ago, I was delighted to be asked by Faber & Faber to interview Kazuo Ishiguro for a special two-part podcast to mark the publication of...

5 October 2017
history and politics, literature, natural history, podcasts

Philip Hoare on Leviathan

I see that Philip Hoare is publishing the third volume of his trilogy about the sea next week. RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR comes nine years after his award-winning book on the culture...

7 July 2017
literature, podcasts

Congratulations to Akhil Sharma

Last week Indian-American novelist Akhil Sharma won the Folio Prize for his novel Family Life. I met Akhil when he visited London last spring to talk about his eagerly...

30 March 2015
literature, podcasts

Anna Karenina revisited

“The text of Anna Karenina is like a Persian carpet of intricate symmetrical design, whose workmanship can only be appreciated by seeing the reverse side.” Rosamund Bartlett I had...

28 March 2015
history and politics, literature, video

Peter Carey: Amnesia on the fire escape

I’ve long yearned to conduct an author interview on the fire escape at Faber, and recently my wish came true, with Peter Carey no less. Here he is talking...

24 October 2014
history and politics, literature, podcasts, theatre

(Nearly) two hundred years of the Old Vic

The Old Vic first opened its doors in May 1818. Back then, building a new theatre south of the river was a commercially risky venture, and the Royal Coburg...

21 October 2014

science and philosophy

Of love and betrayal

Published by podmeister

It’s probably the right time of year to re-post a link to this interview with Robin Dunbar of Oxford University from a few years back (I’m deducing this from...

14 February 2017
natural history, podcasts, science and philosophy

Julian Baggini on the Edge of Reason

Published by podmeister

“We have lost our reason,” writes philosopher Julian Baggini in the introduction to his latest book, The Edge of Reason, “and our loss is no accident. Gradually, the contemporary...

29 September 2016
podcasts, science and philosophy

Ted Nield on Supercontinent

Published by podmeister

With the same inevitability as the shifting tectonic plates perhaps, my podcast backlist seems to have drifted off iTunes and disappeared beneath the waves. So I am intending to...

7 June 2016
podcasts, science and philosophy

Craig Stanford on Planet without Apes

Published by podmeister

“Evolutionary success is not a birthright nor is it a guarantor of survival in perpetuity. Natural selection wrought the living ape species, and like all animals their time on...

18 March 2015
podcasts, science and philosophy

Julian Baggini: The Philosopher in the Kitchen – 1. Practical Wisdom and hummus

Published by podmeister

Here is the first of four short films I made with Julian Baggini last summer and released last month to coincide with the paperback edition of his book, The...

16 February 2015
food and drink, science and philosophy, video
Graham Farmelo

Graham Farmelo on Churchill’s Bomb

Published by podmeister

I thought this might be an appropriate time to re-post my interview with Graham Farmelo from December 2013 about Winston Churchill’s interest in science and in particular nuclear weapons....

31 January 2015
history and politics, podcasts, science and philosophy

Sunny Brain, Rainy Brain – the science of optimism

Published by podmeister

“The core components of optimism surprisingly don’t really have too much to do with positive thinking at all. One of the major components actually is a sense of control;...

8 June 2014
podcasts, science and philosophy

Jon Ronson on The Psychopath Test

Published by podmeister

Early on in his book The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson writes: Having explored the world of extremists in Them, and the wilder shores of the US military’s psychic operations in...

15 February 2014
medicine, podcasts, science and philosophy

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