PODULARITY

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 - apologies for any links which are not yet in place. I aim to have them all present and correct by mid-June):

Aravind Adiga, Booker prize-winning novelist

Stephen Armstrong, investigative journalist

Nadeem Aslam, novelist

Alaa Al-Aswany, Egyptian novelist

Paul Auster, novelist

Julian Baggini, philosopher and journalist

Jenna Bailey, historian

Oliver Balch, journalist and S America specialist

Tim Barrett, sinologist

Sebastian Barry, novelist and playwright

Rosamund Bartlett, translator and Chekhov expert

Mary Beard, classicist

Andy Beckett, journalist and historian of the 70s

Tony Benn, politician and diarist

Walter Benn Michaels

Mark Bostridge, biographer and historian

Alain de Botton, philosopher and cultural commentator

James Bradley, Australian novelist

Colin Brown, political journalist and historian

Robert Brown, Faber archivist

Kathleen Burk, historian and wine writer

Michael Bywater, journalist and wine writer

Peter Carey, Australian novelist

Cathy Cassidy, children’s author

Vicken Cheterian, journalist and Caucusus specialist

Frank Close, physicist

Adam Creed, crime writer

Simon Critchley, philosopher

Nick Davies, journalist

Frans de Waal, primatologist

Hanna Diamond, historian

Junot Diaz, Pulitzer-prize-winning novelist

Donna Dickenson, medical ethicist

Eamon Duffy, historian

Freeman Dyson

Susan Faludi

Patricia Fara, historian of science

Graham Farmelo, science writer and biographer

Louise Foxcroft, historian of medicine

Michael Frayn, playwright and novelist

Marina Frolova-Walker, musicologist

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

Timothy Gowers, mathematician

Andrew Sean Greer, American novelist

Neil Gregor, twentieth-century historian

Alain Gresh, jounralist and Middle East expert

Sarah Hall, Booker-nominated novelist

Chris Hannan, novelist and playwright

Tim Harford, economist and broadcaster

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 braodcaster

Simon Humphries, Christina Rossetti expert

Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker prize winning novelist

PD James, crime novelist

Emma Jones, poet

Valia Kaimaki, Greek journalist

Andrew Kelly, director of Bristol Festival of Ideas

Catriona Kelly, professor of Russian

Christopher Kelly, classicist

Richard T Kelly, novelist and film buff

Martin Kemp, art historian

Hanif Kureishi, novelist

John Leake

Mark Leonard

Chris Luebkeman

Mark Lynas, science writer and climate change campaigner

Tom McCarthy, novelist and Tintinologist

Josephine McDonagh, Bront expert

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

Jean Moorcroft Wilson, literary critic and biographer

Michael Moran, travel writer

Jeremy Mynott, publisher, translator and ornithologist

Ted Nield, geologist and journalist

Susie Orbach

Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate

David Peace, novelist

Sebastian Peake

Roger Pearson, translator and Voltaire expert

Pauline Phemister, philosopher and Locke expert

Timothy Phillips, Russia and Caucasus specialist

Astrid Proll

Philip Pullman, children’s author

Tariq Ramadan

Angela Robson, journalist and broadcaster

Alex Ross, music critic

Johann Rossouw, journalist and South Africa specialist

Mark Rowlands, philosopher and wolf-keeper

David Runciman, political scientist

Jim Secord, Darwin expert

Rose Shapiro, medical journalist

Stav Sherez, crime writer

Peter Singer, philosopher

John Sloan, Oscar Wilde expert

Alan Sokal

Fiona Stafford, Jane Austen expert

Raymond Tallis

Sam Taylor, novelist

Mark Thompson, historian

Mark Vernon, philosopher and journalist

Alan Weisman

Kate Williams, historian and biographer

Bee Wilson, food writer

Frances Wilson, biographer

Lewis Wolpert, biologist and science writer

Jan Zalasiewicz, geologist

Sofka Zinovieff