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The Author Archive Podcast — 108 episodes
Antonio Forcione and Boothby Graffoe
Joseph Millson - Miller Rose Roberts
Jeanette Winterson - Oranges are Not the Only Fruit.
James Lovelock - A Rough Ride to the Future
Richard Dawkins - The War on Science
Sir Martin Gilbert - Never Again - history of the Holocaust
Joe Boyd discusses his memoir, White Bicycles:Making Music in the 1960s and his literary journey through global music, And the Roots of Rhythm Remain.
Ashley Kahn : Kind of Blue - The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
Simon Nicol ..... Fairport Convention
David Sedaris
Harry Sidebottom - A Day in the Life of a Gladiator
Laura K.Field : Furious Minds - The Making of the New Right
Anthony Seldon : The Path of Light. Walking to Auschwitz
Steve Ashley : being a singer songwriter.
Nina Simone
Andrew Lownie - Entitled : Paperback
Nora Gold : Doubles
Prue Leith - Being Old, and Learning to Love It!
Jackie Collins , Joan Collins
Philippa Gregory on the Boleyns, John Le Carre, Jilly Cooper and Maggie Gee.
Catherine Nixey - Heresy : Jesus Christ and other sons of God
Robin Dunbar - How Religion Evolved And Why it Endures
Andrew Lownie - Entitled
Andrew Lownie - Traitor King : The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor.
Eric Bibb talking about his life as a blues troubadour, the political and musical legacy he inherited from his father Leon ....and his new record.
Stephen P. Kershaw - The Harvest of War -Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Now available in paperback.
Sir Rannulph Fiennes, Eric Newby, Lucy Irvine.
Michael R. Payne : Fast Tracks and Dark Deals
Sophie Kinsella : Shopaholic Ties the Knot
Simon Sebag Montefiore : the life of Potemkin
Marcus Chown : The one thing you need to know.
Amelia Thomas : What Sheep Think About the Weather.
Timothy Good - UFOs
Ross King : The Shortest History of Ancient Rome
Roger Hammond: Lyn and Me. Our life with MS and beyond.
Jilly Cooper : Pandora
Ross King, ‘The Bookseller of Florence‘, Adrian Levy on the terrible condition around the jade mines in Myanmar.
James Patterson - Roses are Red
R.J.B. Bosworth on Mussolini, Gitta Sereny tells of attending a Hitler rally, Donna Leon talks about her Venetian detective and Hugo Vickers talks about Princess Andrew.
Angus Hanton - Vassal State
Spike Milligan
The two Johns behind QI, Sandi Toksvig, Jon Ronson and philosopher Simon Blackburn on being good
Edwina Currie - This Honorable House
Clive James
Robert Winder - Three Rivers
Julian Hoffman- Lifelines
Tariq Ali - The Clash of Fundamentalisms : Christianity, Islam and Capitalism
Colin Dexter - The Remorseful Day : Inventing Inspector Morse.
Paul Alexander : Bitter Crop - The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
Ruth Werner - the Oxfordshire life of a remarkable Soviet spy.
Joseph Connolly : All Shook Up - A Flash of the Fifties
Alison Weir - Henry VIII : King and Court
Ashley Kahn - A Love Supreme : The Creation of John Coltrane's Classic Album
Stuart Nicholson : A Portrait of Duke Ellington
Alison Latham : The Oxford Companion to Music
Jon Ronson : Them
Brian Keenan - Turlough : The Northern Irish Poet was held hostage in Beirut in the dark. Turlough came to visit..
Dennis McNally - A Long Strange Trip : The Inside Story of the Grateful Dead
Leslie Howard - The Celestial Wife
Harriet Walter - Thoughts on Acting
Wells Jones : A Line in the Sand
Alan Sillitoe
Marcus Chown - A Crack In Everything : How black holes came in from the cold
Rebecca Beattie - The Wheel of The Year : A witch’s view of the calendar. As traditional religions lose adherents the Wicca view gains in popularity.
Terry Pratchett - The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents.
Deborah Ellis - The Breadwinner : A book for children about about the life of a girl in Afghanistan living under Taliban rules.
Barry Cunliffe : Facing The Sea Of Sand - the Sahara and the peoples of Northern Africa
Steve Kershaw - Mythologica and Vintskevich-Kershaw Trio
Rowland Bagnall : Near - Life Experiences : Poetry Collection
Tim Coulson - The Universal History of Us
Truddi Chase - When Rabbit Howls : A memoir of living with multiple personalities.
David Wilson - A Plot to Kill
Ashley Mullinger - My Fishing Life
Rebecca Frayn - Lost in Ibiza
Eric Bibb talks about his life in music
Gareth E. Rees - Sunken Lands
Robin Eggar - biography of Tom Jones
Lisa St Aubin De Teran - Memory Maps
Maeve Binchy - Scarlet Feather
Chris Grey : Brexit Unfolded - How no one got what they wanted (and why they were never going to)
Magnus Magnusson - Scotland: The Story of a Nation
Justine Picardie - If The Spirit Moves You
Richard Dawkins - Growing up in the Universe
George Alagiah - A Passage to Africa
Beatles Historian Mark Lewisohn, Thomasina Lowe on the Kennedy years and science writer Marcus Chown explains everything.
Clementine Taylor - Something About Her
Sir Stanley Wells, Ellen Apsten.
Helen Dunmore - The Siege
Patricia Scanlan - Francesca’s Party
Sarah Waters : Fingersmith
Maggie Gee : The White Family
Simon Kuper - Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK
Henry Sanderson - Volt Rush : electric cars and the race to go green
Anita Shreve : The Last Time They Met
Geraldine McCaughrean : The Kite Rider
Philippa Gregory - The Other Boleyn Girl
Linda Grant - Still Here
Barrie ’Baz’ Rice - We Were Blackwater
Ann Patchett - talking about her novel Bel Canto
Sally Vickers - Miss Garnet’s Angel
Sir Nicholas Coleridge - Streetsmart
Ed McBain - Money Money Money
Stel Pavlou - Decipher and the film 51st State
Ron Mael - Sparks
Wendy Perriam - writing short stories
Erin Pizzey : Author and instigator of the first women’s refuge in London
Fiona Maddocks - Rachmaninoff in Exile : Goodbye Russia
Anne Sebba - biographer : talks about her book about Ethel Rosenberg who was executed for supposed espionage in 1953 and Wallis Simpson who brought about the abdication of the king in 1936.