My guest in this programme is Duncan Exley, who in his recent book, The End of Aspiration, warns: Living standards over the coming years are predicted to stagnate for middle-income… Read More
Duncan Exley: The End of Aspiration?
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Christie Henry: ‘Shaping knowledge, shaping communication’
This week we have an interview with Christie Henry, who’s director of Princeton University Press. She joined PUP two years ago in September 2017, after twenty-four years at the University… Read More
Thomas Almeroth-Williams: Georgian London – a city full of beasts
This week, Georgian London as you’ve never experienced it before: populated with animals, pullulating with animals – pigs snuffling in the dirt recycling the city’s waste; herds of sheep and… Read More
Marion Turner on Chaucer: A European Life
This week, a new life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the fourteenth-century poet who is regarded as a father of English literature, though that’s a stereotype my guest, Marion Turner, wants to… Read More
Caroline Priday on promoting university press books
This week we have the director’s cut of an interview with Caroline Priday, who’s Global Promotions Director for Princeton University Press, and head of their European office in Woodstock, near… Read More
Robert Gildea on colonialism’s lingering legacy
This week, we ask, are Britain and France still trapped in their own myth-making about their colonial pasts? My guest on the programme is Robert Gildea, who is professor of… Read More
Princeton University Press Europe at 20
This week’s programme is rather unusual: it has six guests rather than one. To mark the twentieth birthday of Princeton University Press‘s European office in Woodstock, near Oxford, I spoke… Read More
Gail Orgelfinger on the afterlife of Joan of Arc
This week the Hedgehog and the Fox explore four centuries in the afterlife of Joan of Arc. Our guest, Gail Orgelfinger, is a medievalist by training and a founding member… Read More
Tim Allen on Vietnam’s national epic
This week, another in our series of Conversations with Translators. And with my guest Tim Allen, we move for the first time (at last) beyond European languages. I’m always interested… Read More
Marek Kohn: Four Words for Friend
This week, the Hedgehog and the Fox explore the benefits of speaking more than one language in the company of science writer Marek Kohn. Marek has recently published a book… Read More