The 2021 International Booker winner episode

We’re pleased to introduce the first episode on this year’s International Booker Prize podcast. In this episode host Joe Haddow is in conversation with two of the judges for this year Olivette Otele and Aida Edemariam. The trio discuss each of the thirteen longlisted books in dep ...  Show more

In our 2020 Booker Prize winner episode, this year's winner Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain, speaks to host Joe Haddow about the aftermath of his win, from reaching out to English teachers who inspired his love of literature, to his surprise at the global reception of ...  Show more

Today’s conversation with Isabella Hammad is truly like no other on the show in its fourteen year history. The main text of her book is the speech she delivered for the Edward Said Memorial Lecture in September of 2023. A remarkable speech called “Recognizing the Stranger” which ...  Show more

Put on your black turtleneck! Jacke starts the episode with a look at #22 on the list of The Greatest Books of All Time, The Stranger by Albert Camus. Then he talks to Jake Poller about British and American novelist and playwright Christopher Isherwood, whose Goodbye to Berlin wa ...  Show more

Jacke continues his journey through the list of the 25 Greatest Books of All Time with a look at Flaubert's "perfect novel," Madame Bovary (1856-57). Telling the story of the bored wife of a provincial doctor who enters into a series of infidelities, Flaubert's debut caused an im ...  Show more

In this episode, we discuss whether or not men should have access to advanced AI and why that answer is 'no' (probably). Listen as we dive into the wild, dystopian world portrayed in Annie Bot.Also, listen until the end of the episode for the audio trailer for Clare's upcoming au ...  Show more