My guest in this week’s programme is Paul Luna, who’s the author of a recent book on typography in the Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press. Paul is… Read More
Paul Luna on typography
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Monica Cure on the power of the postcard
This week the Hedgehog and the Fox examine the humble postcard. In fact, when the postcard was new it was anything but humble, as Monica Cure, my guest on today’s… Read More
Jonathan Loesberg on translating a ‘lurid and breathless’ bestseller
A few weeks ago, I put up an interview with Anne O’Neill-Henry about her book Mastering the Marketplace, which examines the dawn of the era of the bestseller in nineteenth-century… Read More
John Mullan on anon.
This week the hedgehog and the fox explore literary anonymity in the company of John Mullan – not the sort of anonymity where the author’s name has simply been lost… Read More
Tim Dee: down in the dump with the gulls
This week The Hedgehog & the Fox go looking for those much-despised denizens of our urban landscape, gulls, in the company of writer, birdwatcher and radio producer Tim Dee. Gulls… Read More
Julian Baggini: How the World Thinks
This week the hedgehog and the fox are in the company of philosopher Julian Baggini and we are in pursuit of no less a question than how the world thinks… Read More
Peter Davidson in the gathering dusk
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
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