To start 2021, an interview about one of my favourite non-fiction books of last year: The Next Great Migration by Sonia Shah. Sonia is a science journalist and prizewinning author,… Read More
Sonia Shah on lemmings, Linnaeus, and human migration
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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
Conversations with publishers: Dean Smith, Duke University Press
In this episode, I talk to Dean Smith, who’s been director of Duke University Press for almost a year and a half, before which he was director of Cornell University… Read More
Conversations with Publishers: Doug Armato, University of Minnesota Press
This episode is another in the series of Conversations with Publishers, which aims to find out more about the people who decide what gets published. Our guest is Doug Armato,… Read More
Roger Nichols on Francis Poulenc: the depths beneath the surface polish
In this programme, we’re exploring the life and music of Francis Poulenc, in the company of writer and musicologist Roger Nichols. Yale University Press recently published Roger’s biography of the… Read More
Christopher Lloyd on Guy de Maupassant, teller of tales
This week we explore the life and work of the master of the 19th-century short story, Guy de Maupassant, in the company of his recent biographer Christopher Lloyd, who’s emeritus… Read More
Camilla Townsend on the Aztecs, but not as you know them
Exactly five hundred years ago, the Aztecs were locked in a monumental struggle for their civilization’s survival with the newly arrived Spanish conquistadors. Years later, Bernal Díaz, one of Hernando… Read More
Julian Baggini on Babette’s Feast
Babette’s Feast, released in 1987, was the first Danish submission to win the Oscar for best foreign language film and it’s the subject of Julian Baggini’s recent book in the… Read More
Conversations with Translators: Joyce Zonana
A young man inherits a house on an island in the middle of the raging waters of a mighty river from his mysterious great-uncle Malicroix. But to satisfy the conditions… Read More