All Episodes

Sarah Dunant – The Marchesa

Carla Valentine – The Language of Bones: Lessons on Living from Stories of the Dead – For Fans of All That Remains and Unnatural Causes

Theresa Musgrove – Charles Dickens and his Hidden Family History

Madeleine Pelling – Hoax: Truth and Lies in the Age of Enlightenment

Helen Lewis – The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers

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