255 Episodes

  1. The winner of the 2025 Booker Prize: David Szalay

    Published: 11/23/2025

  2. Kiran Desai on loneliness, legacy and the curse of rewriting

    Published: 11/16/2025

  3. The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 winner: Helen Garner

    Published: 11/9/2025

  4. Richard Armitage and the power of storytelling

    Published: 11/2/2025

  5. Richard Lloyd Parry and the journeys within stories

    Published: 10/26/2025

  6. Olivier Norek on courage, conflict and history

    Published: 10/19/2025

  7. Sam Sussman on the possibility of family ties

    Published: 10/12/2025

  8. Juhea Kim on stories woven from silence

    Published: 10/5/2025

  9. Priyanka Mattoo on the search for home

    Published: 9/28/2025

  10. Michael Wolff on chaos, power and America’s reckoning

    Published: 9/21/2025

  11. R James Breiding on what small nations teach the world

    Published: 9/17/2025

  12. Michelle de Kretser on literature and belonging

    Published: 9/14/2025

  13. Iain Sinclair on London, literature and hidden journeys

    Published: 9/7/2025

  14. Nick Berg on revolutions, exile and the stories that we inherit

    Published: 9/2/2025

  15. Iris Wolff on weaving memory into words

    Published: 8/31/2025

  16. Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan: Exiled voices on Russia

    Published: 8/24/2025

  17. Karin Slaughter on banned books and the fight for truth

    Published: 8/17/2025

  18. The women redefining literary festivals

    Published: 8/13/2025

  19. Nick Harkaway and the legacy of Le Carré

    Published: 8/10/2025

  20. Jean McNeil on bearing witness to a disappearing world

    Published: 8/3/2025

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