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 Simon Critchley: The Book of Dead Philosophers [24:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“The book is written against the view that a philosopher’s biography is of no importance and that philosophy can be reduced to a series of systems of thought.
It’s really an attempt to rewrite the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers. That was the way that philosophy was taught until the eighteenth century.
“So in […]

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Over the last few months I’ve been producing a new podcast for Faber and Faber, which you can find on their recently relaunched website here. In the first four podcasts, which are now available on iTunes, I talk to - among others - Hanif Kureishi, Peter Carey, Sebastian Barry (pictured left) and Junot Díaz.
The podcast […]

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The third podcast I’ve recorded for Le Monde diplomatique has just gone up on their site. In it I interview Johann Rossouw, editor of the publication’s Afrikaans edition, about the recent violent events in his country. He talks about what sparked those events, but looks behind the proximate causes to the deeper roots in the […]

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“I see this in a sense as a cautionary tale. What my narrator is is a white tiger - he’s unusual for his time. Very few servants in India actually kill their masters and take their money…”
Aravind Adiga’s debut novel was recently selected for the Booker long-list, so I thought I’d make available this […]

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 Mark Lynas: Six Degrees [24:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“The chemistry of this is more than a century old… The basic physics of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases has been known for a very long time. In fact some back-of-the-envelope calculations were made then which more or less stand the test of time a century later.”
A few weeks back I met Mark Lynas […]

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