Rob Rinder with Isy Suttie

What can Little Women teach modern boys about sisterhood? How does food become a language of love and grief? How does writing in a third language shape your creative rhythm? And why can finishing a masterpiece feel like a tragedy?This week on Ask Penguin, Rhianna is joined by bes ...  Show more

How do you begin breaking down a 600-page American epic to bring it to the screen? How did Florence Pugh capture the essence of the central character Cathy? How did John Steinbeck’s secret writing journals help the screenwriters? And what should you read next if you loved reading ...  Show more

Broadcaster, criminal barrister, columnist and now novelist, Rob Rinder is too curious a person to stay in one place for long. He speaks to James about how he fell out of love with the law as well his first novel, The Trial, which draws upon his real life experience of the Britis ...  Show more

ROB BECKETT & JOSH WIDDICOMBE'S PARENTING HELLS03 EP6: Isy Suttie (The Return)Joining us in the studio this episode to discuss the highs and lows of parenting (and life) is the brilliant comedian, actress, and writer - Isy Suttie. Isy's fantastic new book 'Jane is Trying' is avai ...  Show more

Jordan Castro joins the pod to discuss his novel The Novelist, poop, alt-literature, the death of the sacred, our humorless generation, swallowing the responsibility pill, and being Christ-pilled.

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In which Rob and journalist/author Gayle King discuss respect in the workplace, Prince Harry sightings, online dating, the importance of a free press, and their complicated relationship with social media. Plus: we learn about the worst celebrity Gayle ever interviewed. Got a q ...