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The Bert's Books Podcast — 298 episodes
Which Tory MP Would you Sit on?
An interview with Ilona Bannister
Oh, Not Pedro?
What am I, a Podcast?
Cruising with Jane McDonald
Is That a Headstone?
The Promise of a Premise
Blame it on the Weatherman
A Bus Ride up a Glacier
The Kangaroo Killer
Carpe Librum
Hot, Incredible & Frequent
Pigeon Talk
I'll lick you when you get here
An interview with Jennie Godfrey
I don't know him from Adam
Margate does actually exist
My Ugly Wife
Live from Swindon
OnlyBerts
But how was the lamb shank?
The Rest of 2025 Part 2
The Rest of 2025 Part 1
Review of the Year
Stylish Black Boots
Donald Sutherland is a Real Person
What Sally Wants Sally Gets
Just a Pair of Gay Boys Solving Crime
Nothing Went Wrong!
Shut up and Dance
Was there even a shoe?
Michael Moons Again
Is whiskellier a word?
This is Not A Pedcast
Two Bookshops One Podcast
There's Not Even One Robert
Our Beautiful Podcast
A Particularly Nasty Podcast
How Do You Even Milk A Cow?
Are We Talking Fondue?
You Can't Do That In a Pair of Chelsea Boots
Scribbledacious
I Wasn't Going to Lick It!
Humpty Dumpty Lives in Reading
Don't Cry for Me Alan Partridge
Get Midgley!
The Money Saving exBert
It's Not Even Set in Wales
Sexy Drunk Ghost
In the Sea?
Feel the Wood
My Cheesy Lasagne Brings All the Men to the Yard
Off to Harrogate with Freddie & James
A Box Full of Methodists
Just Buy Some Books
Michael May Sound Like a Chipmunk
Bert's Borders
Not Everybody Puts Her in Hotpants
Gerroff My Podcast
Have I Told You About My Stapler?
Earl Sausage and Lady Lush
The Strange Case of Hitler's Right Testicle
It was Margaret Atwood
A Podcast in Four Acts
Tell Me About It... Sally
"...and that's what I told the Bishop."
Sometimes Zebras Eat Watermelons
I'll Show You a Big One
Bert, Alone
Chips & Champagne
Linguistic Gymnastics
I Can't Believe It IS Butter
Hula Hoop Anyone?
The End of Year Special Part 2 (AKA We're Busy, Have This)
End of Year Special Part 1 (AKA, We're Busy, Have This)
Our Favourite Books of the Year
We Interrupt this podcast...
Bookish Chat with Katherine
Funny and Frivolous
The Longest Intro in the World
Swipe Right
Under the Spermafrost
Pies Up Your Life
Who's Afraid of Virginia Werewoolf?
What's Your Favourite Pie?
Not Via the Blowhole
Guilty Feet Have Got No Rhythm
SKOOB STREB, SKOOB STREB
Not Now Margaret
The Bert's Books Guide to Verbing the Noun
You're Never Too Old For Leopard Print
In the Absence of Cox
It's A Big One!
Methodist Minister Starts Holy War
I'm On Holiday, You Come Up With A Title
Coleslaw?
The Bertrand Books Podcast
Guerilla Marketing
The Joy of Books
Short Story Sal - Or is it Michael?
There's No Such Thing as Genre
Celia's Ceiling Tiles
Chicken Sized T-Rexes
Shakespeare Was A Time Traveller
It's Leatherette!
What's Your Superpower?
There's No Semi-Colon In This Podcast
There's No Such Thing as Jetpacks in the Future
Totes Amazing
Michael is Falling Apart
A Little Bit of Pedro
Cute Boys Only
And Then There Were Three
Every Book Needs a Gorgeous Lizard
Sex? Before Lunch?!
Oh, THERE'S The Skillet
Don't Call Her Big Sally
Fluffed Right Up
Lil' Sally Is My Rapper Name
Introducing... Helen Death
It's Been 84 Years...
Waterstones? Never heard of 'em
Live from the Igloo
Where's That Skillet?
Do You Sell Wallpaper?
Tiny Pieces of Books
Ooh, I Could Crush a Grape
The Queens of Crime
The Vikings Are Better Armed Than We Are
Alices in Wonderland
Are There Seagulls in Honolulu?
An Exotic Name... Like Malcolm
Michael, How You've Changed!
Gays, Gays Everywhere (And Not a Drop to Drink)
Full of NYPLs
Sucking up to Agatha
A Podcast Buried Under Snow-Like Prose
The Column of Crap
The Only Bookshop in the World
Agatha All Along
Michael Masquerading as Matilda (BOING)
Jelly Snakes Across the Desert
Horrible Rich People
Bacon Jam, Hobbits and Yellow Sauce
Potato Shaped Objects
Giving up on Garlic Bread
Podcasts for the End of the World
Recorded Contemporaneously
The Fact Womble Returns
Bert and Bobby and Issac and the Egg
Agatha Christie is a Middle Aged Man
Wonderful, Wonderful
Boris's Books
Harriet Evans
A Race Against the Battery
How to Defecate in Space
Where are all the Spice Girls?
Just One Damned Book After Another
Clare Whitfield
You Wouldn't Want To Live in France
Whimsical Books and Battered Sausages
2 Little Pigs
Harriet Tyce
Zoë Somerville
Book 20 - Into the Dark by Fiona Cummins
Book 19 - Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Book 17 - The House of Ashes by Stuart Neville
Book 16 - The Rising Tide
Book 15 - Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
Book 12 - The Marsh House by Zoë Somerville
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
Flamingo by Rachel Elliott
Off Target by Eve Smith
A Fatal Crossing by Tom Hindle
Twelve Secrets by Robert Gold
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill by CS Robertson
12 Hours to Say I Love You by Olivia Poulet & Laurence Dobiesz
Demon by Matt Wesolowski
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
Rowan Coleman/Bella Ellis
Dominic Nolan
The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict
AJ West
Mother's Boy - Patrick Gale
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
In Every Mirror She's Black - Lola Akinmade Akerstrom
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman
We Are Animals - Tim Ewens
Black Reed Bay - Rod Reynolds
Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
Magpie by Elizabeth Day
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
The Dark - Emma Haughton
The Sweetness of Water - Nathan Harris
How to Kill Your Family - Bella Mackie
Kate Sawyer
The Stranding - Kate Sawyer
253 by Geoff Ryman
Last Lesson - James Goodhand
I Know What You've Done - Dorothy Koomson
A booky chat with Clare Mackintosh
The Appeal by Janice Hallett
A Beginner's Guide to Murder - Rosalind Stopps
After the Silence - Louise O'Neill
The Dinner Guest - BP Walter
How the One Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
The Frequency of Us by Keith Stuart
Would I Lie To You? by Aliya Ali-Afzal
The Great Silence - Doug Johnstone
Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Diving For Pearls by Jamie O'Connell
The Beresford
Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder - TA Willberg
The Other Black Girl - Zakiya Dalila Harris
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
This Is How We Are Human - Louise Beech
The Echo Chamber - John Boyne
Amari and the Night Brothers - BB Alston
Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo
Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters
Ariadne - Jennifer Saint
Another Life - Jodie Chapman
The End of Men - Christina Sweeney-Baird
When I Was Ten
Episode 65 - Five Minds, The Island Home & The Edge of the Ocean
Episode 64 - The Source & The All True Adventures and Rare Education of Daniel Bones
Episode 63 - The Phone Box at the Edge of the World & Truth Be Told
Episode 62 - Still Life & The Lost Future of Pepperharrow
Episode 61 - Cold Boy's Wood & Hostage
Episode 60 - Meet Me In Another Life & Dangerous Women
Page Master Special 2021 - Part 2
Episode 59 - What's The T? & Her Last Holiday
Episode 58 - The Jigsaw Man & The Secret life of Albert Entwistle
Episode 57 - Deity & Common Ground
Episode 56 - Final Cut & The Lamplighters
Episode 55 - The Smallest Man & Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow
Episode 54 - True Crime Story & The Shelf
Page Master Special 2021 - Part 1
Episode 53 - The Last Thing to Burn & Acts of Kindness
Episode 52 - The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, The Five People You Meet In Heaven and The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Episode 51 - The Spiral & The Prophets
Episode 50 - Twisted & Everything Happens for a Reason
Episode 49 - Good Samaritans, 2020 Round-up & The PageMaster Quiz Grand Final
Episode 48 - Shuggie Bain & Fortune Favours the Dead
Episode 47 - We Begin at the End, The StrangeWorlds Travel Agency & Panenka
Episode 46 - Changeling & The Flip Side
Episode 45 - Winterkill & Dishonoured
Episode 44 - Elidor & The Last House on Needless Street
Episode 43 - The Burning Girls & The Diabolical Bones
Episode 42 - The Stranger Times & The Last One at the Party
Episode 41 - The Coral Bride & Home Stretch
Episode 40 - The Betrayals and Birthday
Episode 39 - There's Only One Danny Garvey & Mayflies
Episode 38 - Reproduction & When the Dead Speak
Episode 37 - The Shape of Darkness & The Confession
Episode 36 - The Binding & Rough Music
Episode 35 - I Follow You & Hydra
Episode 34 - A Song of Isolation & Contacts
Episode 33 - Queer Intentions & People of Abandoned Character
Episode 32 - Tin Man, The Windsor Knot & Such a Fun Age
Episode 31 - Anxious People, The Devil and the Dark Water & First Class Murder
Episode 30 - James Ellson & The Bookseller's Tale
Episode 29 - Greed, The Thursday Murder Club & August Bundles
Episode 28 - Airhead & Arsenic for Tea
Episode 27 - Girl, Woman, Other, Spirited & The Great Godden
Episode 26 - The Other Passenger, The Blind Light & Murder Most Unladylike
Episode 25 - The July Girls, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone & The July Bundles
Episode 24 - Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, The Truants & Life and Other Happy Endings
Episode 23 - The Shadow of the Wind, A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet & Saint X
Episode 22 - Queenie, The Vanishing Half & Rainbow Milk
PageMaster Special
Episode 21 - Dear Child, The Big Chill & Eight Detectives
Episode 20 - The Secrets of Strangers, Where We Belong, Where the Crawdads Sing & The Midnight Library
Episode 19 - A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom, Leonard and Hungry Paul, His and Hers & Just My Luck
Episode 18 - After the End, The Last Wife & The Waiting Rooms
Episode 17 - Goldilocks, Eve of Man, The Lies You Told & The Third Wheel
Episode 16 - The Murder Game, The Silent Treatment & Cain's Jawbone
Episode 15 - Tuesday Mooney Wore Black & The Constant Rabbit
Episode 14 - The Creak on the Stairs & I Am Dust
Episode 13 - Q & Pretending
Episode 12 - The Authenticity Project & Tender is the Flesh
Episode 11 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone & Black River
Episode 10 - Rules for Perfect Murder & On Turpentine Lane
Episode 9 - Who Owns England & Good Riddance
Episode 8 - Elevator Pitch, No Signal & Roy Grace
Episode 7 - March Picks, The Guest List, Swimming in the Dark & The Memory Wood
Episode 6 - A Bit of a Stretch, The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle & Six Stories
Episode 5 - After Dark & Five Years Time
Episode 4 - Last Ones Left Alive & Grown Ups
Episode 3 - February Picks, The 24-Hour Cafe & Three Hours
Episode 2 - The Other People & Tell Me Your Secret
Episode 1: The Home & Somewhere Close To Happy
The Bert's Books Podcast - COMING SOON!