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Why Translate Homer Again? Daniel Mendelsohn on his new Odyssey
59 mins; April 02, 2026
Rare Book Collecting with Ben Brown
67 hours 58 mins; March 26, 2026
Going South: Tash Aw on Inheritance, Identity, and Escape
55 mins; March 23, 2026
Booker Prize Winner David Szalay on Agency, Violence, and Restraint
48 mins; March 04, 2026
Murder, Mannerism and the Medicis with Laurent Binet
60 hours 31 mins; February 19, 2026
George Saunders: Fiction, Free Will, and the Question of Redemption
45 mins; February 04, 2026
Narrative Amid Trauma: Emily LaBarge in conversation
52 mins; January 21, 2026
See It, Say It, Sorted: Jonathan Coe’s Genre-Bending Novel
52 mins; January 07, 2026
Books Matter More Than Ever: A Conversation with Ian Patterson
51 mins; December 24, 2025
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, with Ian Leslie
55 mins; December 11, 2025
When Stories Fall Apart: Miriam Robinson on Love, Loss, and Truth
49 mins; November 27, 2025
Why We Write, Why We Live, with Miriam Toews
49 mins; November 12, 2025
How France Lost Its Way, with Andrew Hussey
68 hours 23 mins; October 15, 2025
Philippe Sands: Pinochet, Walter Rauff, and the Shadows of History
66 hours 38 mins; October 02, 2025
Moonlight Express: Monisha Rajesh on the Magic of Night Trains
58 mins; September 17, 2025
Twenty Writers, One Bookshop: The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews, now in paperback
78 hours 21 mins; September 03, 2025
Small Girl, Big Ideas: Getting to know Mafalda, with Samanta Schweblin and Frank Wynne
55 mins; August 21, 2025
Calls May Be Recorded: Lipstick, Loneliness, and Late Capitalism with Katharina Volckmer
41 mins; August 06, 2025
The Shape of Survival: Eimear McBride on Love, Art, and the City
62 hours 49 mins; July 30, 2025
Katie Kitamura on Fiction’s Shifting Realities
55 mins; July 24, 2025
Renton Returns, Sick Boy in Love: Irvine Welsh Reimagines His Antiheroes
64 hours 3 mins; July 16, 2025
Inside the Story Machine: Natasha Brown on Media, Power, and Fiction
54 mins; July 09, 2025
Making Sense of Gertrude Stein, with Francesca Wade
65 hours 38 mins; July 03, 2025
Geoff Dyer’s Homework: Family, Class, and Memory
63 hours 57 mins; June 25, 2025
Rebecca Solnit: Changing the Story, Changing the World
65 hours 8 mins; June 18, 2025
The Book That Refuses to End: Catherine Lacey on The Möbius Book
53 mins; June 11, 2025
Writing the Unspeakable: Neige Sinno on Abuse, Memory, and Language
69 hours 14 mins; June 05, 2025
On the Edge of the Real: Guadalupe Nettel on The Accidentals
51 mins; May 23, 2025
William Blake, Sea Monsters, and the Ecstasy of Art, with Philip Hoare
57 mins; May 07, 2025
Overnight: Dan Richards on Sleep, Service, and the Secrets of the Small Hours
59 mins; April 23, 2025
Bruise, Heal, Repeat: Anna Whitwham on On Boxing, Loss, and the Female Body
45 mins; April 16, 2025
Solvej Balle on Time, Wonder, and Writing the Impossible *International Booker Prize Shortlist*
56 mins; April 10, 2025
Nobel Prizewinner Abdulrazak Gurnah on Theft, Love, and the Power of Fiction
48 mins; March 27, 2025
BONUS: Jeremy Pelt on Preserving Jazz Through Storytelling
54 mins; March 19, 2025
Reimagining Moby-Dick, with Xiaolu Guo
57 mins; March 12, 2025
2016: The Year That Broke Us - with poet and oral-historian Sarah Hesketh
62 hours 24 mins; February 26, 2025
The Power of Voice – Sulaiman Addonia on The Seers
49 mins; February 11, 2025
Acts of Resistance: Amber Massie-Blomfield on the Power of Art to Shape a Better World
63 hours 32 mins; January 29, 2025
Democracy at Risk: Salomé Saqué on Resisting the Far Right
47 mins; January 20, 2025
Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 2
61 hours 5 mins; January 13, 2025
Claire-Louise Bennett returns to the Pond
59 mins; January 08, 2025
Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 1
58 mins; January 06, 2025
Yasmin Zaher on The Coin
55 mins; December 25, 2024
David Runciman: “The history of ideas is about letting people believe in things that they hadn't previously thought possible…”
71 hours 1 min; December 18, 2024
Dorian Lynskey on the Stories We Tell About the End of the World…
68 hours 58 mins; December 11, 2024
Emmanuel Carrère on V13: “A unique experience of horror, pity, proximity and presence…”
63 hours 38 mins; December 04, 2024
Denis Hirson: “They Called My Father A One-Man Revolution”
57 mins; November 20, 2024
BONUS: Lauren Elkin on Scaffolding (in conversation with Amanda Dennis)
59 mins; November 13, 2024
Colombe Schneck on The Paris Trilogy (with Translator Natasha Lehrer)
55 mins; November 06, 2024
Lynne Tillman on American History, Human Absurdity, and why Trump should have become a Comedian
69 hours 23 mins; October 23, 2024
Ayşegül Savaş on Love, Rootlessness, and “The Age of Poetry”
56 mins; October 09, 2024
On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh)
61 hours 11 mins; September 25, 2024
Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake (Booker Prize SHORTLIST 2024)
55 mins; September 11, 2024
Ferdia Lennon on Glorious Exploits
42 mins; September 04, 2024
Roxy Dunn on As Young As This
37 mins; August 28, 2024
Poetry: Ishion Hutchinson reads from and discusses School of Instructions
47 mins; August 21, 2024
Michael Donkor on Grow Where They Fall
60 hours 38 mins; August 14, 2024
Writing Against Normality, with Samanta Schweblin
62 hours 53 mins; August 07, 2024
Parenting in the age of AI, with Helen Phillips
52 mins; July 31, 2024
Creating Life from Art, with Catherine Lacey
58 mins; July 24, 2024
Paul Murray on The Bee Sting
65 hours 31 mins; July 17, 2024
Claire Kilroy on Parenting under the Patriarchy
54 mins; July 03, 2024
Rachel Cusk on Art, Violence and Freedom through Destruction
60 hours 16 mins; June 19, 2024
When Radical Art meets Obscene Wealth, with Hari Kunzru
56 mins; June 05, 2024
Sheila Heti on Alphabetical Diaries
50 mins; May 23, 2024
BONUS: Celebrating Dylan Thomas with Cerys Matthews…with exclusive live music from Flora Hibberd!
57 mins; May 16, 2024
Viet Thanh Nguyen on Memory, Migration and Model Minorities
63 hours 3 mins; May 08, 2024
Ottessa Moshfegh on bringing Eileen to the screen
62 hours 16 mins; April 24, 2024
Percival Everett on James, his subversive reimagining of Huckleberry Finn
34 mins; April 10, 2024
On Allen Ginsberg: His life, his work and his archives, with Pat Thomas and Peter Hale
40 mins; March 27, 2024
Bidding adieu to Freeman’s literary journal, with Jakuta Alikavazovic, Deborah Landau, Juan Gabriel Vazquez, and John Freeman
54 mins; March 13, 2024
On Friendship, with Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen
57 mins; February 29, 2024
Love in the Time of Creative-Writing Classes, with Brandon Taylor
51 mins; February 14, 2024
Annabelle Hirsch, A History of Women in 101 Objects
52 mins; January 31, 2024
☕Proust Questionnaire: Holly McNish & Michael Pedersen☕
83 hours 37 mins; January 17, 2024
BLOOMCAST | HOLIDAY SPECIAL | THE DEAD
100 hours 37 mins; January 05, 2024
😱On Witold Gombrowicz’s The Possessed, with Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Adam Thirlwell😱
65 hours 28 mins; January 03, 2024
👭🏼Naomi Klein on Doppelgangers, Conspiracy Theories, and the Shadowlands we all inhabit…👭🏼
65 hours 10 mins; December 20, 2023
Claire-Louise Bennett on Nightflowers, her immersive installation at Museum of Literature Ireland
56 mins; December 06, 2023
🥘On Eating through the Endtimes, with C Pam Zhang🥘
45 mins; November 22, 2023
🐕On Life, Art and the Line Between the Two, with Jo Ann Beard🐕
45 mins; November 08, 2023
👁️Sandra Newman on Julia, her re-imagining of George Orwell’s 1984 👁️
57 mins; October 25, 2023
⛵Bidding adieu to a literary journal, with John Freeman (Feat. readings from Sandra Cisneros, Aleksandar Hemon, Rebecca Makkai, and Mieko Kawakami read by translator Hitomi Yoshio)⛵
68 hours 13 mins; October 11, 2023
🛏️On Not Sleeping, with Marie Darrieussecq🛏️
40 mins; September 28, 2023
🐖On Populism, Post-Truth, and Piggybacking George Orwell. Adam Biles in conversation with Rob Doyle.🐖
67 hours 40 mins; September 14, 2023
💎Sunday Poetry: Emilie Moorhouse reads from Emerald Wounds, her new translation of the poems of Joyce Mansour💎
15 mins; September 09, 2023
🧠On Making Sense of a Murderer, with Mark O’Connell🧠
57 mins; August 30, 2023
🗞️On Power, Pamphlets, Parties and Possible Worlds, with Adam Thirlwell🗞️
55 mins; August 16, 2023
🪄On the KLF, Conspiracies, and Chaos with John Higgs🪄
53 mins; August 02, 2023
Sunday Poetry: Nick Laird reads from Up Late
19 mins; July 22, 2023
On Writing, Wormholes, and Wasted Opportunities, with Isabel Waidner
50 mins; July 19, 2023
🏫On writing and translating The Topeka School, with Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovic🏫
94 hours 11 mins; July 13, 2023
🏇On Blood, Sweat and Racetracking, with Kathryn Scanlan🏇
28 mins; June 27, 2023
BONUS: Lex Paulson on Cicero and the Future of Democracy
60 hours 33 mins; June 15, 2023
Hernan Diaz on his Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, Trust
60 hours 23 mins; June 13, 2023
Proust Questionnaire: Dolly Alderton!
39 mins; June 07, 2023
Leïla Slimani on Inheritance, Hippies and the Literature of Disappointment
49 mins; June 01, 2023
BONUS: Martin Amis in conversation with Will Self (2010)
40 mins; May 22, 2023
On Anti-Memoir, the Weird, and New Kinds of Disaster, with M. John Harrison
55 mins; May 22, 2023
On Unclassifiable Books and Uncategorisable Lives, with Xiaolu Guo
38 mins; May 04, 2023
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