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BooksPodcast — 121 episodes
Sir Ben Okri – Waking the Warriors
Dan Jennings – Paul Weller: Dancing Through the Fire: The Authorised Oral History
Philip Norman – Mr Moonlight: Brian Epstein and the Making of The Beatles
Gail Crowther – Marilyn and her Books – The Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe
Jeevan Vasagar – The Surge – The Race Against the Most Destructive Force in Nature
Dr Geoff Andrews – Radicals: The Working Classes and the Making of Modern Britain
Anthony Gottlieb – Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes
Tom Doyle – Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush
Alwyn Turner – A Shellshocked Nation: Britain Between the Wars
Steve Richards – Tony Blair: The Prime Minsters Series
Paul Davies – Quantum 2.0: The Past, Present and Future of Quantum Physics
Peter Doggett – Surf’s Up – Brian Wilson And The Beach Boys
Nicholas Wright – Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain
Tom Doyle – Ringo: A Fab Life
Mark Blake – Shine On – The Definitive Oral History Of Pink Floyd
Thomas Levenson – So Very Small: How humans discovered germs, uncovered infectious diseases, and deluded themselves that we had conquered them
Mike Jay – Free Radicals – How A Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science
Peter Hogan – Resident Alien
John Cassidy – Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World
Eleni Kyriacou – A Beautiful Way To Die
John Higgs – Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who
Ian Leslie – John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs
Simon Hart – Ungovernable: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip
Joanne Harris – Moonlight Market
Jerry Brotton – Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction
Robin Choudhury – The Beating Heart: The Art and Science of Our Most Vital Organ
Evie Wyld – The Echoes
Marcus Chown – A Crack In Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage
Scarlett Thomas – The Sleepwalkers
Adrian Mackinder – Death and the Victorians
Alwyn Turner – Little Englanders – Britain in the Edwardian Era
Howard Jacobson – What Will Survive of Us
Philip Norman: George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle
Sarah Ogilvie – The Dictionary People – The Unsung Heroes Who Created The Oxford English Dictionary
Mike Jay – Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
Neil Jordan – The Well Of Saint Nobody
Cathi Unsworth – Season Of The Witch: The Book Of Goth
Lawrence Krauss – The Known Unknowns: The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos
Barry Forshaw – Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films: A 21st Century Guide
Joanne Harris – Broken Light
Steve Richards – The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success And Failure From Butler to Corbyn
Joel Meadows – Tripwire 30th Anniversary
David Hepworth – Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio
Louise Willder – Blurb Your Enthusiasm – an A-Z of Literary Persuasion
Nick Wallis – The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail
Rachel Gross – Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
Howard Jacobson – Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings
Simon Mason – A Killing In November
Dr Thomas Halliday – Otherlands: A World in the Making
Robert J Lloyd – The Bloodless Boy
Prof Francesca Stavrakopoulou – God An Anatomy
Nicholas Wapshott – Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market
Robb Johnson – The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child Versus The State
Alwyn Turner – All In It Together: England in the Early 21st Century
Adrian MacKinder – Stan Lee – How Marvel Changed The World!
Paul Theroux from the archives – Chicago Loop
Philip Norman – Wild Thing: The short, spellbinding life of Jimi Hendrix
Larry Watson – The Lives Of Edie Pritchard
Liz Williams – Miracles of Our Own Making: A History of Paganism
Chris Kirkham - Decoherence
Stephen Tow – London, Reign Over Me: How England’s Capital Built Classic Rock
Helen Lewis – Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
Barry Forshaw – Crime Fiction – A Reader’s Guide
Steve Richards - The Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leadership from Harold Wilson to Theresa May
Graeme Garrard – How To Think Politically
Mike Isaac - Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber
Ray Connolly - Sorry Boys, You Failed The Audition
Ross Barnett – The Missing Lynx – The Past And Future Of Britain’s Lost Mammals
Robert Elliott Smith – Rage Inside The Machine – The Prejudice of Algorithms and How to Stop The Internet Making Bigots of us All
Ben Burgis – Give Them An Argument: Logic For The Left
Joel Meadows – Masters Of Comics
Randy Ross - God Bless Cambodia
Julian Baggini – How The World Thinks
Ray Connolly – Being John Lennon
Tom Kirkham – Pop Life
Robert Kuttner – Can Democracy Survive Globalisation?
Toby Litt – Wrestliana
Grady Hendrix – Paperbacks From Hell
Christopher Fowler – The Book of Forgotten Authors
Ben Aaronovich – The Furthest Station
Steve Richards – The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way
Robert Newman – Neuropolis: A Brain Science Survival Guide
Tim Haigh – Z is for Zeugma
Philip Norman - Paul McCartney
Lawrence Block – The Girl With The Deep Blue Eyes
Jamie Cawley - Beliefs And The World They Created
Mike Ripley about Angels And Others
Mike Jay – High Society: Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture
Armin Navabi – Why There Is No God – Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God
Nicholas Wapshott – The Sphinx – Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II
Toby Litt – Lifelike
Alwyn W turner – The Last Post
Christopher Fowler – Nyctophobia
Anne McCaffrey from the archive – Renegades of Pern
Mike Ripley – Margery Allingham’s Mr Campion’s Farewell: the Return of Albert Campion Completed by Mike Ripley
George Cooper – Money, Blood and Revolution
Humaira Shahid – Devotion and Defiance
Lawrence Block – The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
Larry Watson – Let Him Go
Iain Banks from the Archives
Christopher Fowler – Film Freak
Martin Amis from the Archive – London Fields
Gore Vidal from the archive – Palimpsest
John Mortimer from the archive – Rumpole And The Angel Of Death
Salman Rushdie from the archive – The Moor’s Last Sigh
Terry Pratchett from the archive – Maskerade
Philip Norman – Mick Jagger
Iain M Banks – The Hydrogen Sonata
Christopher Fowler – Bryant and May and the Invisible Code
Alom Shaha – The Young Atheist’s Handbook
Alwyn W Turner – Things Can Only Get Bitter
Nicholas Wapshott – Keynes Hayek – The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
Larry Watson – American Boy
Chris Mullin – A Walk-On Part: Diaries 1994-1999
Alwyn W Turner – The Man Who Invented The Daleks, The Strange Worlds Of Terry Nation
Steve Richards – Whatever It Takes
Russell Hoban – Angelica Lost And Found
Iain Banks – Surface Detail
Iain Banks – Transition
Alwyn Turner – Crisis, What Crisis – Britain in the 1970s
Lord David Owen – In Sickness And In Power – illness in heads of government during the last 100 years