Spectator Books

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  • Publisher: Podcast
  • Duration: 261:16:06
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Synopsis

Literary interviews and discussions on the latest releases in the world of publishing, from poetry through to physics. Presented by Sam Leith.

Episodes

  • Jonathan Meades: The Plagiarist in the Kitchen

    29/06/2017 Duration: 23min

    With Jonathan Meades, author of The Plagiarist in the Kitchen.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • The Secret Lives of Julian Assange, Craig Wright and Ronald Pinn

    22/06/2017 Duration: 33min

    With Andrew O'Hagan, author of The Secret Life.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • First Novels: The shortlisted authors for The Desmond Elliott Prize

    15/06/2017 Duration: 25min

    With Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Kit de Waal, and Francis Spufford.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • Michael Wood on William Empson

    08/06/2017 Duration: 20min

    With Professor Michael Wood.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • Will Self: Phone, psychosis and postmodernism

    01/06/2017 Duration: 17min

    With Will Self, author of Phone.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident

    25/05/2017 Duration: 29min

    With Peter Stanford, author of Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident, and Peter Marshall, author of Heretics and Believers.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • The Art of Losing Control

    18/05/2017 Duration: 25min

    Meditation, psychedelic drugs, charismatic Christianity, sex parties... all this, and more, in the search to lose control.With Jules Evans, author of The Art of Losing Control.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • The Lost Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

    11/05/2017 Duration: 27min

    With Anne Margaret Daniel, editor of I’d Die For You and Other Lost Stories, and Sarah Churchwell, author of Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of the Great Gatsby.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • Hamlet: Globe to globe

    04/05/2017 Duration: 20min

    With Dominic Dromgoole, author of Hamlet: Globe to Globe.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • Murray Lachlan Young: How Freakin' Zeitgeist Are You?

    27/04/2017 Duration: 26min

    With Murray Lachlan Young.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • Stiff Upper Lip: The best and worst of British boarding schools

    20/04/2017 Duration: 21min

    With Alex Renton, author of Stiff Upper Lip, and Ysenda Maxtone Graham, author of Terms and Conditions.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • Neuropolis: A Brain Science Survival Guide

    13/04/2017 Duration: 21min

    With Robert Newman, author of Neuropolis: A Brain Science Survival Guide.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • The Joy of Indexes

    06/04/2017 Duration: 20min

    With Dennis Duncan.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • Charlotte Rampling: Who I Am

    30/03/2017 Duration: 15min

    With Charlotte Rampling.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • Be Like The Fox: Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom

    23/03/2017 Duration: 18min

    With Erica Benner, author of Be Like The Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • Michael Morpurgo: From The Yellow Brick Road to the Second World War

    16/03/2017 Duration: 33min

    With Michael Morpurgo, author of Toto.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • Stand Firm: Resisting the self-improvement craze

    08/03/2017 Duration: 25min

    With Svend Brinkmann.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • The Story of Pain

    02/03/2017 Duration: 24min

    With Joanna Bourke, author of The Story of Pain.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

    23/02/2017 Duration: 28min

    With Daniel Dennett.Presented by Sam Leith.

  • Louise Doughty on Apple Tree Yard and Black Water

    16/02/2017 Duration: 24min

    With Louise Doughty, author of Apple Tree Yard and Black Water.Presented by Sam Leith.

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