Simply click on an author’s name below to be taken to a web-page where you’ll be able to listen to an interview with them (page currently being updated – it’s quite a large labour, but I’m going to try to do a few every day…):
A
Aravind Adiga, Booker prize-winning novelist, on The White Tiger
Stephen Armstrong, investigative journalist on The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited
Nadeem Aslam, novelist on The Blind Man’s Garden
Alaa Al-Aswany, Egyptian novelist
Paul Auster, novelist and memoirist, on Winter Journal
B
Julian Baggini, philosopher and journalist
Oliver Balch, journalist and South America specialist
Sebastian Barry, novelist and playwright
Rosamund Bartlett, translator and Chekhov expert
Andy Beckett, journalist and historian of the 70s
Tony Benn, politician and diarist
Walter Benn Michaels
Michael Blakemore, theatre director, on the National Theatre
Ronald Blythe, rural writer, on The Time by the Sea
Mark Bostridge, biographer and historian
Alain de Botton, philosopher and cultural commentator
James Bradley, Australian novelist
Emma Brockes, journalist, on her memoir, She Left Me the Gun
Colin Brown, political journalist and historian
Robert Brown, archivist, Faber & Faber
Kathleen Burk, historian and wine writer
Michael Bywater, journalist and wine writer
C
Susan Cain, writer and lecturer
Peter Carey, Australian novelist
Cathy Cassidy, children’s author
Vicken Cheterian, journalist and Caucusus specialist
Frank Close, physicist
Adam Creed, crime writer
D
Junot Diaz, Pulitzer-prize-winning novelist
Donna Dickenson, medical ethicist
Robin Dunbar, evolutionary biologist
Freeman Dyson
F
Susan Faludi
Patricia Fara, historian of science
Graham Farmelo, science writer and biographer, on Churchill’s Bomb
Robert Ferguson, Scandinavian historian
Tim Flannery, zoologist and environmentalist
Louise Foxcroft, historian of medicine
Ronald Frame, novelist, on Havisham
Michael Frayn, playwright and novelist
Marina Frolova-Walker, musicologist
G
Petina Gappah, Zimbabwean novelist and short story writer
Rupert Gethin, Buddhist scholar
Rodge Glass, novelist and biographer
Misha Glenny, broadcaster, journalist and historian
Ben Goldacre, medic and journalist
John Gordon Sinclair, actor and thriller writer, on his debut novel
Timothy Gowers, mathematician
John Gray, philosopher, on The Immortalization Commission
Andrew Sean Greer, American novelist
Neil Gregor, twentieth-century historian
Alain Gresh, journalist and Middle East expert
Kirsty Gunn, novelist, on The Big Music
H
Sarah Hall, Booker-nominated novelist
Chris Hannan, novelist and playwright
Tim Harford, economist, journalist and presenter of Radio Four’s More or Less
Lindsey Hilsum, journalist and broadcaster, on Libya’s revolution
Henry Hitchings, biographer and historian of English
Philip Hoare, journalist and whale specialist
Michael Hofmann, poet and translator
Tom Holland, historian
Richard Holmes, historian and biographer
Norman Housley, historian
Bettany Hughes, classicist and broadcaster
Simon Humphries, Christina Rossetti expert
I
Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker prize winning novelist
J
PD James, crime novelist
K
Valia Kaimaki, Greek journalist
Jackie Kay, poet and memoirist
Andrew Kelly, director of Bristol Festival of Ideas
Catriona Kelly, professor of Russian
Catriona Kelly on St Petersburg and memory
Christopher Kelly, classicist
Richard T Kelly, novelist and film buff
Barbara Kingsolver, novelist, on Flight Behaviour
Hanif Kureishi, novelist
L
Mark Leonard
Chris Luebkeman
Roger Luckhurst, professor of English, on the mummy’s curse
Mark Lynas, science writer and climate change campaigner
M
Maria McCann, historical novelist, on Ace, King, Knave
Tom McCarthy, novelist and Tintinologist
Josephine McDonagh, Brontë expert
Neil McKenna, journalist and biographer, on Fanny and Stella
Chase Madar, civil rights lawyer, on The Passion of Bradley Manning
Margaret MacMillan, historian
Michael McNay, journalist and English art and architecture specialist
Sarah Maitland
Jonathan Mallinson, translator and early modern French literature expert
Gary Marcus, psychologist
Rebecca Mead, journalist and George Eliot enthusiast
Jean Moorcroft Wilson, literary critic and biographer
Michael Moran, travel writer
Jeremy Mynott, publisher, translator and ornithologist
N
Ted Nield, geologist and journalist
O
Edna O’Brien, novelist, on her memoir, Country Girl
Susie Orbach
Paul Ormerod, economist, on Positive Linking
P
Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate, on Silent House
Sebastian Peake
R
Roger Pearson, translator and Voltaire expert
Pauline Phemister, philosopher and Locke expert
Timothy Phillips, Russia and Caucasus specialist
Michael Pollan, food writer and journalist
Astrid Proll
Philip Pullman, children’s author
Tariq Ramadan
Marilynne Robinson, novelist and essayist
Angela Robson, journalist and broadcaster
Oliver Ready, Russianist and translator
Alex Ross, music critic
Johann Rossouw, journalist and South Africa specialist
Mark Rowlands, philosopher and wolf-keeper
Eugen Ruge, German novelist, on In Times of Fading Light
David Runciman, political scientist
S
Jim Secord, Darwin expert
Rose Shapiro, medical journalist
Akhil Sharma, Indian-American novelist, on Family Life
Stav Sherez, crime writer
John Gordon Sinclair, thriller writer, on Seventy Times Seven
Peter Singer, philosopher
John Sloan, Oscar Wilde expert
Alan Sokal
Francis Spufford, non-fiction writer, on Unapologetic
Fiona Stafford, Jane Austen expert
T
Raymond Tallis
Sam Taylor, novelist
Marcel Theroux, novelist, on Strange Bodies
Mark Thompson, historian
V
Mark Vernon, philosopher and journalist
W
Alan Weisman
Kate Williams, historian and biographer
Bee Wilson, food writer
Frances Wilson, biographer
Lewis Wolpert, biologist and science writer
Z