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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This week, the Hedgehog and the Fox investigate the origins of human musicality by looking for musical ability and perception in other animals, including rhesus macaques, zebra finches, a cockatoo… Read More
This week, we launch a new series, Conversations with Publishers. It seems to me that being curious about books needn’t stop at the people who write them; it can also… Read More
