This week a conversation about the British royal family with Laura Clancy, who’s a lecturer in media in the sociology department at Lancaster University. Last autumn I spoke to Laura… Read More
Laura Clancy: on running the (royal) family firm
Category: politics
Sonia Shah on lemmings, Linnaeus, and human migration
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
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
Danny Dorling on Slowdown
This week, we have a returning guest to the podcast, Oxford professor of geography Danny Dorling, who spoke to me recently about his new book Slowdown. Danny has given his… Read More
Duncan Exley: The End of Aspiration?
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
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
Bradley Stephens: Victor Hugo, beyond Les Misérables
This week we’re focusing on one of the nineteenth century’s most successful and influential writers, Victor Hugo. By the time of his death in 1885, Hugo was undoubtedly the most… Read More
Sten-Åke Stenberg: Born in 1953
I was in Stockholm for the first time a few weeks before Christmas, so I was intrigued when I recently came across a new book about a study that’s followed… Read More
Lynn Hunt: why history matters
In the first Hedgehog & Fox podcast of 2019, we grapple with some big questions – does history matter? If so, why? And is it, and other forms of knowledge,… 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