In this programme we’re talking about the recently published new edition of a book that first came out over twenty years ago, Nicholas Cook’s Music: A Very Short Introduction. (And… Read More
Nicholas Cook: More to music than meets the ear
Category: cultural history
Paul Luna on the typographer’s task (video)
Craig Robertson: Cabinets of curiosities
In this programme we’re looking at what I used to think of as ‘the humble filing cabinet’ until I read Craig Robertson’s fascinating book, The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History… Read More
Juliana Adelman on the beasts of Dublin
In this episode, I’m talking to Juliana Adelman, who’s assistant professor of history at Dublin City University. Juliana’s recent book, Civilised by Beasts: Animals and Urban Change in Nineteenth-Century Dublin,… Read More
Conversations with Publishers: Rob Tempio, Princeton University Press
In the summer of 2019, which now feels as though it belongs to a different geological epoch, I interviewed some of people who work in Princeton University Press’s UK office… Read More
Paul Cartledge: Thinking like a Theban
Sometimes – and it’s the case with the subject of this programme – a book is published and you think, “I am as close to dead centre in the target… Read More
Camilla Townsend on the Aztecs (video)
Christopher Forth on Fat: A Cultural History
Last November, I spoke to Christopher E. Forth about his book, Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life (Reaktion Books, 2019), which he describes as a ‘study in… Read More
Charlie Gere hates the Lakes
My guest today is Charlie Gere, who hates the Lake District; so much so, in fact, that his new book is unambiguously entitled I Hate the Lake District. But it’s… Read More