All Episodes

Catherine Ostler: The Renoir Girls

Suzanne Simard: When the Forest Breathes

Jane Rogoyska: Hotel Exile

Juliet Nicolson: The Book of Revelations

Charles Darwent: Monsieur Ozenfant's Academy

Jonas Hassen Khemiri: The Sisters

Horatio Clare: We Came By Sea

Tim Bouverie: Allies at War

Chloe Dalton: Raising Hare

Lucy Hughes-Hallett: The Scapegoat

Mother State: Helen Charman in Conversation with Kate Briggs

William Dalrymple: The Golden Road

Rupert Thomson: How to Make a Bomb

Giles Milton: The Stalin Affair

Es Devlin on the Art of Set Design

Roland Philipps on Roger Casement

Anna Reid: A Nasty Little War

Thomas Harding on George Weidenfeld

Ann Wroe: Lifescapes

Laura Freeman on Jim Ede & Kettle’s Yard

Miguel Flores-Vianna: Haute Bohemians: Greece

Margaret Jull Costa on Javier Marías

Christopher de Hamel: The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club

Jennifer Homans: Mr B.

Edward Wilson Lee: A History of Water

Karina Urbach: Alice’s Book

Laura Beatty: Looking for Theophrastus

Vashti Bunyan: Wayward

Eileen Atkins: Will She Do?

Robert Edric: My Own Worst Enemy

Salley Vickers: The Gardener

The Great Carp Ferdinand: A Wintry Tale by Eva Ibbotson

Mark Mazower: The Greek Revolution

Colin Thubron: The Amur River

John Craxton: A Life of Gifts

James Marriott: Crude Britannia

Charles Saumarez Smith: The Art Museum in Modern Times

Olivia Laing: Everybody

Emily Mayhew: The Four Horsemen

Helena Attlee: Lev's Violin

Ross King: The Bookseller of Florence

Edmund de Waal: Letters to Camondo

Roland Philipps: Victoire

Horatio Clare: Heavy Light

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries

A Cuckoo Press Publication: Gaia Servadio's A Wartime Childhood

Juliet Nicolson: Frostquake

Wodehouse Wednesdays: Jeeves and the Leap of Faith 2

Selina Hastings: Sybille Bedford

Wodehouse Wednesdays: Jeeves and the Leap of Faith

Hermione Lee: Tom Stoppard

William Boyd: Trio

Martin Latham: The Bookseller's Tale

Judith Herrin: Ravenna

Loyd Grossman: An Elephant in Rome

David Mitchell: Utopia Avenue

Wodehouse Wednesdays 10.2: Pining for Pongo

Wodehouse Wednesdays 10.1: Next Stop, Ashenden

Wodehouse Wednesdays 9.3: Good Old Blackmail

Wodehouse Wednesdays 9.2: You’re Being Watched, Wooster

Wodehouse Wednesdays 9.1: The Cow Creamer

Wodehouse Wednesdays 8.3: Everything Goes Tickety-boo

Wodehouse Wednesdays 8.2: 'Well, Sir'

Wodehouse Wednesdays 8.1: Dressed as Mephistopheles

Wodehouse Wednesdays 7.3: Without the Option

Wodehouse Wednesdays 7.2: Clustering Around Young Bingo

Wodehouse Wednesdays 7.1: Jeeves Takes Charge

Wodehouse Wednesdays 6.3: Roly-Poly Pudding

Wodehouse Wednesdays 6.2: The Empress's Slumber

Wodehouse Wednesdays 6.1: Connie's Back

Wodehouse Wednesdays 5.3: The Chase

Wodehouse Wednesdays 5.2: A Sea of Aunts

Wodehouse Wednesdays 5.1: Short on Chirpiness

Alexandra Shulman: Clothes... and other things that matter

Wodehouse Wednesdays 4.3: Bertie's Banjolele

Wodehouse Wednesdays 4.2: A Wooster Is Always Debonair

Wodehouse Wednesdays 4.1: Jeeves Gives Notice

Wodehouse Wednesdays 3.3: Feet

Wodehouse Wednesdays 3.2: Emsworth's Lunch

Wodehouse Wednesdays 3.1: The Adventure of the Wand of Death

Wodehouse Wednesdays 2.3: The Onion Soup Bar

Wodehouse Wednesdays 2.2: The Brain Chap

Wodehouse Wednesdays 2.1: Uncle Fred in the Springtime

Wodehouse Wednesdays 1.3: Flowerpots

Wodehouse Wednesdays 1.2: The Name is Psmith

Wodehouse Wednesdays 1.1: Blind as a Bat

Hisham Matar: A Month in Siena

Caroline Moorehead: A House in the Mountains

Philip Mansel: Louis XIV, King of the World

Sofia Tolstoy: A Centenary

William Dalrymple: The Anarchy, The Relentless Rise of The East India Company