The Book Club

Literary interviews and discussions on the latest releases in the world of publishing, from poetry through to physics. Presented weekly by Sam Leith.

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Recent Episodes
  • Lamorna Ash: A New Generation's Search for Religion
    Apr 23, 2025 – 40:13
  • Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street – On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
    Apr 16, 2025 – 57:48
  • Fara Dabhoiwala: What Is Free Speech?
    Apr 9, 2025 – 44:28
  • Joe Dunthorne: Children of Radium
    Apr 2, 2025 – 39:35
  • Francesa Simon: Salka
    Mar 26, 2025 – 31:38
  • Who is Government? edited by Michael Lewis
    Mar 19, 2025 – 39:58
  • Anthony Cheetham: A Publisher's Memoir
    Mar 12, 2025 – 25:47
  • Michael Wolff: How Trump Recaptured America
    Mar 5, 2025 – 33:21
  • Selena Wisnom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History
    Feb 26, 2025 – 44:36
  • James Bradley: The World in the Ocean
    Feb 19, 2025 – 48:46
  • Colin Greenwood: How to Disappear - A Portrait of Radiohead
    Feb 12, 2025 – 33:02
  • Philip Marsden: Under A Metal Sky
    Feb 5, 2025 – 33:30
  • Lissa Evans: The Surreal Joys of Producing Father Ted
    Jan 29, 2025 – 30:23
  • What we get wrong about The Great Gatsby
    Jan 22, 2025 – 43:10
  • Orlando Reade: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost
    Jan 15, 2025 – 36:17
  • Rachel Cooke: The Virago Book of Friendship
    Jan 8, 2025 – 43:46
  • Orhan Pamuk: Memories of Distant Mountains, Illustrated Notebooks
    Jan 1, 2025 – 37:11
  • Chris Ware: The Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Three
    Dec 18, 2024 – 39:02
  • Daniel Tammet: Nine Minds, Inner Lives on the Spectrum
    Dec 11, 2024 – 37:48
  • Jonathan Coe: The Proof of My Innocence
    Dec 4, 2024 – 33:05
  • Nick Harkaway: Karla's Choice
    Nov 27, 2024 – 31:34
  • Josh Cohen: All The Rage
    Nov 20, 2024 – 38:03
  • Michael Moorcock: celebrating 60 years of New Worlds
    Nov 13, 2024 – 43:10
  • 100th anniversary of A A Milne and E H Shepard, with James Campbell
    Nov 6, 2024 – 35:49
  • John Suchet: In Search of Beethoven
    Oct 30, 2024 – 42:34
  • Rachel Clarke: The Story of a Heart
    Oct 23, 2024 – 47:45
  • Sue Prideaux: Wild Thing, A Life of Paul Gaugin
    Oct 16, 2024 – 41:30
  • Alan Johnson: Harold Wilson, Twentieth Century Man
    Oct 9, 2024 – 34:24
  • Malcolm Gladwell: Revenge of the Tipping Point
    Oct 2, 2024 – 39:02
  • Alan Garner: Powsels and Thrums
    Sep 25, 2024 – 40:11
  • Lindsey Hilsum: I Brought The War With Me
    Sep 19, 2024 – 42:46
  • Craig Brown: A Voyage Around The Queen
    Sep 11, 2024 – 31:51
  • Amy Jeffs: Saints
    Sep 4, 2024 – 45:56
  • Ian Sansom: September 1, 1939, from the archives
    Aug 28, 2024 – 24:47
  • Carlo Rovelli: Anaximander, from the archives
    Aug 21, 2024 – 48:28
  • Adam Higginbotham: Challenger
    Aug 14, 2024 – 49:47
  • Nathan Thrall: A Day In The Life of Abed Salama
    Aug 7, 2024 – 35:19
  • David Baddiel: My Family
    Jul 31, 2024 – 41:15
  • Neil Jordan: Amnesiac
    Jul 24, 2024 – 43:06
  • Roger McGough: Collected Poems 1959-2024
    Jul 17, 2024 – 34:59
  • Michael Nott: Thom Gunn's Cool Queer Life
    Jul 10, 2024 – 29:02
  • Kathleen Jamie: Cairn
    Jul 3, 2024 – 24:01
  • Åsne Seierstad: The Afghans
    Jun 26, 2024 – 47:58
  • Mark Bostridge: In Pursuit of Love
    Jun 19, 2024 – 41:14
  • Marlon James: A Brief History of Seven Killings
    Jun 12, 2024 – 39:39
  • Richard Flanagan: Question 7
    Jun 5, 2024 – 33:06
  • The legacy of Franz Kafka
    May 29, 2024 – 50:07
  • Conn Iggulden: Nero
    May 22, 2024 – 42:54
  • Olivia Laing: The Garden Against Time
    May 15, 2024 – 32:59
  • Jackie Kay: May Day
    May 8, 2024 – 38:58
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