All Episodes
The Booking Club — 94 episodes
The Dawn of a Post-Literate Society, with James Marriott
The Case Against Assisted Death, with Kathleen Stock
The Quantity Theory of Morality, with Will Self (LIVE at Special Rider Books and Records)
Writing in the Age of Distraction, with Megan Nolan
Colossus: a novel, with Ross Barkan
See You on the Other Side: a novel, with Jay McInerney
Understanding the True Power of Story, with John Yorke
Men, Love, and Modern Literature, with Lucas Oakeley
Who Will Remain: a novel, with Kasim Ali
Franz Kafka's The Trial at 100, from The Battle of Ideas Festival 2025
The Ballad of a Small Player: from acclaimed novel to Netflix hit, with Lawrence Osborne
Bookish: Murder Speaks Volumes, with Matthew Sweet
Vulture: a novel, with Phoebe Greenwood
Fiction First: The Booking Club LIVE
The Fathers: a novel, with John Niven
A Personal Journey Through the Manosphere, with James Bloodworth
The Boys: a novel, with Leo Robson
What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Reinventing Your Life, with Henry Oliver
Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs, with Miranda Sawyer
Life, Death and Boxing, with Donald McRae
How the British Empire Has Shaped the Globe, with Sathnam Sanghera
Why We Need a Global Food Philosophy, with Julian Baggini
The Proof of My Innocence, with Jonathan Coe
Wonderful Words That Tell A Tale, with Tom Read Wilson
LIVE from The Battle of Ideas Festival 2024, with Geoff Norcott
A History of the World in 47 Borders, with Jonn Elledge
The Knockout: Sport's Most Decisive Moment, with Andy Clarke
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading, with Sam Leith
Technology is not the Problem, with Timandra Harkness
My Family: the Memoir, with David Baddiel
Alchemy and the 2024 UK General Election, with Rory Sutherland
Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times, with Elizabeth Oldfield
The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play it, with Will Storr
🎄❄️🎅 MERRY CHRISTMAS! A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain, with Pen Vogler
War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age, with Tom Holland
Remi Adekoya and Kenan Malik on Race, Wealth and the Future of Solidarity
Mortification: Eight Deaths and Life After Them, with Mark Watson
This is Europe, with Ben Judah
Depp v Heard: The Unreal Story, with Nick Wallis
Feminism Against Progress, with Mary Harrington
How to Fight a War, with Mike Martin
I Am Not Nicholas, with Jane MacSorley
The New Gurus, with Helen Lewis
Scoops, with Sam McAlister
The Booking Club LIVE, with Martin Rowson
The Identity Myth, with David Swift
The Value of a Whale, with Adrienne Buller
A History of Bollocks Theories and How Not to Fall for Them, with Tom Phillips and Jonn Elledge
The Joy of Science, with Jim Al-Khalili
The Life Inside, with Andy West
Hard Times in the 21st Century, with Helen Thompson
My Life as a Cop, with Leroy Logan
DAD: Untold stories of Fatherhood, Love, Mental Health and Masculinity, with Elliott Rae
The Great Post Office Scandal, with Nick Wallis
The Booking Club LIVE, with David Edmonds
The Booking Club LIVE, with Henry Mance
Why We Need a Postliberal Politics, with Adrian Pabst
The Great Guide, with Julian Baggini
How to Love Animals, with Henry Mance
How the Left Lost Me, with Geoff Norcott
Breaking the Social Media Prism, with Professor Chris Bail
The Costs of the Sexual Revolution, with Louise Perry
A Different Way of Looking at Race, with Remi Adekoya
The Running Book, with John Connell
Dark Money and Dirty Politics, with Peter Geoghegan
End of Year Announcement 2020
The Book of Trespass, with Nick Hayes
The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century, with David Goodhart
Chaucer: A European Life, with Marion Turner
The Madness of Crowds, with Douglas Murray
Lockdown Interview with Matthew Crawford in California USA
Lockdown Interview with Vincent Bevins in Sao Paulo
Lockdown Interview with Daniel A. Bell and Wang Pei in Shanghai
Lockdown Interview with Patrick Deneen in Indiana USA
Lockdown Interview with Salvatore Babones in Sydney
Lockdown Interview with David Patrikarakos in Athens
Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities, with Eric Kaufmann
Gossip, Power and How Politics Really Works, with Marie Le Conte
A Left For Itself: Left-Wing Hobbyists and Performative Radicalism, with David Swift
How To Save The World From Financialisation, with Grace Blakeley
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, with Tom Holland
Is the West in denial about the Chinese century? with Helen Thompson
The Geography of Power at Downing Street, with Jack Brown
How Satirical Cartoons Survive, with Martin Rowson
So They Call You Pisher! A Memoir, with Michael Rosen
How Britain Learned to Consume Austerity, with Owen Hatherley
National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy, with Matt Goodwin
Brexit at the Eleventh Hour, with Claire Fox
Lion and Lamb: Britain's Moral Duality, with Mihir Bose
The Future of Capitalism and the Ethics of Reciprocity, with Sir Paul Collier
Phone: War and Memory in the Bi-directional Era, with Will Self
Tribalism and Immunity to Counter-Evidence, with Stephen Law
Fun, Freedom and an End to Feminism, with Ella Whelan
PILOT EPISODE: What happened to the financial crisis? with Vicky Pryce at Echo, Clapham Junction