What do we know about the Earth’s ancient climate, and how do we know it? What can it tell us about its – and our – possible future? Leicester professor… Read More
Jan Zalasiewicz on 4 billion years of climate history
Month: July 2017
Fiona Stafford on the long, long life of trees
This week’s programme is an interview with Fiona Stafford, in which we discuss humanity’s long, rich and complex relationship with trees. Fiona, who is a professor of English at Oxford,… Read More
Gay Bradshaw: elephants on the edge
“Elephants are not treated much differently now than they were in the mid-eighteenth century: they are objects of awe and conservation, yet legally hunted, made captive, abused, and forced to… Read More
Of micro-histories and Vikings
I heard an interesting interview with Robert Ferguson on the New York Times Books podcast at the weekend in which he talked about his new book on Scandinavia (“an engaging,… Read More
Fiona Stafford picks a favourite tree
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst on the young Dickens
Here is another freshly re-edited recording from my archive. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s biography of the first three decades of Dickens’ life, published by Harvard University Press, is a terrifically readable, refreshing… Read More
Future intentions, and learning from past (audio) mistakes
My aim is that this blog will contain behind-the-scenes insights into how this site is put together: what’s forthcoming; what I’m reading; who I hope to have as guests on… Read More
Martin Kemp on the human animal in art and science
‘As soon as humans make images, they make them about humans and they make them about animals and the relationship between them.’ My guest on this programme from the archive… Read More
Zoë Anderson on The Ballet Lover’s Companion
In the spring of 2015 I interviewed Zoë Anderson, who writes on ballet for the Independent and Dancing Times, to talk about her Ballet Lover’s Companion, published by Yale University… Read More
Adam Phillips on Becoming Freud
