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 Simon Winder: Germania [15:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In this week’s podcast, I talk to Simon Winder about the challenges of making a book on German history entertaining. It’s a challenge he rose to magnificently in his quirky new book, Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern.
He takes the reader along the highways and down many of the byways of German […]

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 Speller: Return of Captain John Emmett [23:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

To record this week’s podcast, I travelled to the Cotswolds to visit my guest (and friend), Elizabeth Speller. Elizabeth has recently bought a splendid shepherd’s hut on wheels which she is using as a retreat to write in. Although this book wasn’t written there, its sequel, currently a work in progress, will be.
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 Mark Kermode: It's Only a Film: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Last Monday I met film critic Mark Kermode at the Watershed in Bristol before his event there which formed part of his countrywide tour to present his new book, It’s Only a Movie. He was remarkably bright and engaged, considering he had been at the BAFTAs the night before and had already done 37 interviews […]

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