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How Westminster Works . . . and Why it Doesn’t, with Ian Dunt
61 hours 37 mins; April 17, 2023
✖️On Art, Alternative Histories, and the Arbitrariness of Life with Catherine Lacey✖️
59 mins; April 05, 2023
📚How to Resist Amazon and Why, with Danny Caine📚
50 mins; March 22, 2023
On Old Wounds, Finding Peace, and Returning Home, with Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
43 mins; March 08, 2023
🗺️On Sarajevo, Multiple Worlds and History at the Fringes, with Aleksandar Hemon🗺️
63 hours 33 mins; February 22, 2023
❤️‍🔥Valentine’s Special: Meena Kandasamy on The Book of Desire❤️‍🔥
48 mins; February 08, 2023
On Parents, Grief and the difference between Fiction and Memoir, with Elizabeth McCracken
51 mins; January 25, 2023
🎸Music, Sugar and other Obsessions, with Don Paterson🎸
58 mins; January 11, 2023
📚Books of the Year📚
27 mins; December 28, 2022
👩‍🎨Katy Hessel on The Story of Art Without Men👩‍🎨
62 hours 29 mins; December 21, 2022
📘BLOOMCAST | HOLIDAY SPECIAL📘
81 hours 3 mins; December 15, 2022
🔥Sarah Churchwell on Gone with the Wind, January 6th, and the Lies America Tells🔥
66 hours 18 mins; December 07, 2022
🔔Hunchback of Notre-Dame Special! 🔔
59 mins; December 02, 2022
🐋How to Speak to Whales (and other animals…) with Tom Mustill🐋
71 hours 55 mins; November 24, 2022
💋On Love, Loss and Life in New York, with Coco Mellors💋
55 mins; November 16, 2022
On Writing the Queer, Indigenous Experience with Billy-Ray Belcourt
53 mins; November 09, 2022
🍫Jonathan Coe on Bournville🍫
62 hours 6 mins; November 02, 2022
🍄Psychedelic Storytelling, DIY Magick, and the New Masculinity, with David Keenan🍄
53 mins; October 26, 2022
🥊 Miriam Toews on Sweary Matriarchs, the Absurdity of Life, and the Human Imperative to Experience Joy🥊
53 mins; October 20, 2022
🎤 Sunday Poetry: Mark Polizzotti reads his new translations of Arthur Rimbaud🎤
15 mins; October 15, 2022
🎈William Boyd, The Romantic🎈
57 mins; October 12, 2022
🏅BONUS: Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize in Literature🏅
65 hours 59 mins; October 07, 2022
🐴💰On Friendship and Redemption in the time of the Gold Rush, with Paddy Crewe💰🐴
45 mins; October 05, 2022
👭🏽On Friendship, Politics and when the Two Collide, with Kamila Shamsie👭🏽
56 mins; September 28, 2022
🎸🤵‍♂️The Beatles, James Bond and the British Psyche ,with John Higgs🤵‍♂️🎸
61 hours 28 mins; September 21, 2022
🎤 Sunday Poetry: Tayi Tibble reads from Poūkahangatus🎤
6 mins; September 17, 2022
🎹Ian McEwan on Lessons🎹
60 hours 48 mins; September 14, 2022
🇺🇸 A.M. Homes on Satire, the American Dream, and Reaching Across the Political Divide🇺🇸
53 mins; September 07, 2022
🐇On Transcendence, Parental Failure & writing Indiana, with Tess Gunty🐇
47 mins; August 31, 2022
☭🎩When Young Stalin came to London, with Stephen May🎩☭
47 mins; August 24, 2022
After Sappho, with Selby Wynn Schwartz
56 mins; August 17, 2022
👨🏼✨Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man✨👨🏾
52 mins; August 10, 2022
⏳Time Travel, Autofiction & Never-ending Book Tours, with Emily St John Mandel⌛
45 mins; August 03, 2022
🎓😵‍💫Disorientation: A Wild Satire of 21st-Century Campus Life, with Elaine Hsieh Chou😵‍💫🎓
57 mins; July 27, 2022
🇬🇧🔨How Britain Broke the World, with Arthur Snell🔨🇬🇧
58 mins; July 20, 2022
🎾Geoff Dyer on Roger Federer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sensing an Ending…🎾
63 hours 15 mins; July 13, 2022
👨‍❤️‍👨On Love, Grief and Male Friendship, with Michael Pedersen👨‍❤️‍👨
55 mins; July 06, 2022
🎙️🍃Ali Smith on Companion Piece (live in the bookshop!)🍃🎙️
52 mins; June 29, 2022
🐑Ottessa Moshfegh on Power, Magic…and her Pirate Ancestors🐑
56 mins; June 22, 2022
🥀On Darkness, Fables and Heartbreak, with Vanessa Onwuemezi🥀
52 mins; June 15, 2022
A World Without Men, with Sandra Newman (Live at Hey Festival)
47 mins; June 08, 2022
On Bodies, Freedom and Change, with Olivia Laing
63 hours 28 mins; May 25, 2022
Meg Mason on Sorrow and Bliss
59 mins; May 18, 2022
📱Love (and Life) in the time of Algorithms, with Jem Calder📱
52 mins; May 11, 2022
🐍🎲Luck, Life and Little Snakes, with DBC Pierre🎲🐍
56 mins; May 04, 2022
On imagining what hasn’t, can’t and won’t imagine you, with Margo Jefferson
51 mins; April 27, 2022
On Prison, Literature and Grief with Preti Taneja
56 mins; April 20, 2022
Superstar Poets and (Step)Fatherhood in Chile, with Alejandro Zambra
75 hours 9 mins; April 13, 2022
Rachel Cusk & Siemon Scamell-Katz on Writing, Painting and the Vanishing Sublime
84 hours 35 mins; April 06, 2022
📘🎸Special Episode: Music for Ulysses with Alex Freiman🎸📘
35 mins; April 01, 2022
George Saunders on Reading Better, Writing Better, and Living Better
52 mins; March 30, 2022
Memory, Guilt and the Hunt for a Nazi Fugitive with Philippe Sands
49 mins; March 23, 2022
Global Disorder and the road to war in Ukraine, with Helen Thompson
66 hours 12 mins; March 16, 2022
On the Pleasures (and Pains) of Rereading, with Rob Doyle
53 mins; March 09, 2022
Dostoyevsky, the Parisian murderer, and the creation of a masterpiece, with Kevin Birmingham
57 mins; March 02, 2022
Bloomcast | Episode 3 | Aeolus and Lestrygonians
64 hours 17 mins; February 25, 2022
An insider’s history of Rock & Roll, with Lenny Kaye
68 hours 8 mins; February 23, 2022
Poetry, class, and radical performance, with Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen
55 mins; February 16, 2022
** Valentine's Special ** Love, Language and London with Xiaolu Guo
47 mins; February 10, 2022
Comedy and the Culture Wars, with Andrew Hankinson
64 hours 29 mins; February 03, 2022
Patrick Hastings, The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses
62 hours 44 mins; January 28, 2022
Nadifa Mohamed on The Fortune Men
52 mins; January 27, 2022
Introducing Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses
43 secs; January 20, 2022
Rebecca Solnit on Orwell’s Roses
62 hours 26 mins; January 19, 2022
A Parisian bus ride with Lauren Elkin
45 mins; January 12, 2022
Claire Messud on A Dream Life
48 mins; December 30, 2021
Claire Messud on A Dream Life
48 mins; December 29, 2021
BONUS: Cerys Matthews reads A Child's Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas
9 mins; December 23, 2021
BONUS: Cerys Matthews reads A Child's Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas
9 mins; December 23, 2021
Sarah Hall on Burntcoat
58 mins; December 22, 2021
Sarah Hall on Burntcoat
58 mins; December 22, 2021
Welcome to Shakespeare and Company: Writers, Books and Paris
59 secs; December 16, 2021
Aysegül Savas on White on White
48 mins; December 15, 2021
Aysegül Savas on White on White
48 mins; December 15, 2021
Philip Hoare on Albert & the Whale
57 mins; December 08, 2021
Philip Hoare on Albert & the Whale
57 mins; December 08, 2021
Lauren Groff on Matrix
54 mins; December 01, 2021
Poets Richard Barnett and Luke Kennard in conversation
56 mins; November 24, 2021
Katharina Volckmer on The Appointment
54 mins; November 17, 2021
Armando Iannucci on Pandemonium
36 mins; November 09, 2021
Eimear McBride on Something Out of Place: Women and Disgust
58 mins; November 03, 2021
Richard Powers on Bewilderment
61 hours 56 mins; October 27, 2021
BONUS PODCAST* Poetry from Archipelago Books
38 mins; October 23, 2021
David Runciman on Confronting Leviathan
68 hours 20 mins; October 20, 2021
Anuk Arudpragasam on A Passage North
54 mins; October 13, 2021
Ian Dunt on How to Be a Liberal
61 hours 46 mins; October 06, 2021
Leïla Slimani on The Country of Others
57 mins; September 29, 2021
Tom McCarthy on The Making of Incarnation
60 hours 25 mins; September 22, 2021
Claire-Louise Bennett on Checkout 19
74 hours 9 mins; September 15, 2021
David Keenan on Monument Maker
53 mins; September 08, 2021
Elif Shafak on The Island of Missing Trees
52 mins; September 01, 2021
Pola Oloixarac and John Freeman, in conversation
58 mins; August 12, 2021
Katie Kitamura on Intimacies
36 mins; August 04, 2021
Jakuta Alikavazovic on Night As It Falls
38 mins; July 28, 2021
Laurent Binet on Civilisations
56 mins; July 21, 2021
Eliot Higgins on We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People
60 hours 12 mins; July 14, 2021
Pragya Agarwal on (M)otherhood
57 mins; July 07, 2021
Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan on Francis Bacon: Revelations
69 hours 55 mins; June 30, 2021
Jennifer Lucy Allan on The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast
57 mins; June 23, 2021
Hari Kunzru on Red Pill
60 hours 5 mins; June 16, 2021
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