PODULARITY

Podularity has been off air for the last month while I’ve been finishing a book (and so busy, in fact, that Podularity’s first birthday went unrecorded). But as of 4.15pm yesterday the book has gone, so normal service will shortly be resumed.
Coming up before the end of the year are podcasts on Russia’s national poet, […]

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Congratulations to Aravind Adiga for his Booker win last night for his debut novel, The White Tiger. For those of you who missed it, you can find my interview with Aravind from earlier this year here. And if you want to sample his novel, you can hear him reading from it here and here.

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 Julian Baggini: The Duck that Won the Lottery [12:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“In marketing and in politics people have got more sophisticated in their manipulation techniques, so more than ever we need to know what they are, so that we can spot the truth when we see it.”
Julian Baggini is the first guest to pay a return visit to the Podularity studio. I last interviewed him back […]

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My latest podcast for Faber & Faber is now available on their site and on iTunes. In it I talk to American novelist Andrew Sean Greer about his latest book, The Story of a Marriage. It’s a beautifully realized depiction of what happens to the relationship between two people when a third appears on the […]

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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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I recently interviewed Stephen Armstrong for Faber about his new book, War plc. You can hear the interview by clicking here .
The book takes the reader into the world of the private security companies, which have mushroomed in the last few years to the extent that the military effort in Afghanistan and Iraq would be […]

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