This week the hedgehog and the fox venture out into that time of day that the French call between the dog and the wolf, in other words, in the fading… Read More
Peter Davidson in the gathering dusk
Month: October 2018
Danny Dorling on Peak Inequality
In this week’s programme I talk to Danny Dorling about inequality, its causes and consequences. Danny is professor of geography at the University of Oxford. In his latest book, Peak… Read More
Tessa Laird: of bat bombs and other chiropteran marvels
This is a lightly edited transcript of my recent interview with Tessa Laird, which you can find here: Tessa Laird, who teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts, University… Read More
Anne O’Neil-Henry on The Mysteries of Paris and other bestsellers
In France in the 1830s many of the features of the commercial publishing world we know today were coming into being: celebrity authors, runaway bestsellers, commercially minded publishers, copycat trends,… Read More
Caspar Henderson in search of modern marvels
In this week’s programme we’re exploring the concept of wonder in the company of science writer Caspar Henderson, author of A New Map of Wonders. One reviewer called the book… Read More