The Master and Margarita

New from the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (“A masterpiece of science writing.” —Washington Post) and “one of the stars of modern paleontology” (National Geographic), a sweeping and revelatory history of mammals, illuminating the lost story ...  Show more

A sweeping and revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists."THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY." — Scientific AmericanThe dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our pl ...  Show more

Irina Mashinski is a bilingual Russophone American writer, poet, essayist, teacher, and translator, whose works include Giornata and eleven books of poetry and essays in Russian. She is also the co-editor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry. In this episode, Irina talks with Ja ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Italian author of Invisible Cities, If On A Winter's Night A Traveller, Cosmicomics and other celebrated novels, fables and short stories of the 20th Century. Calvino (1923 -1985) had a passionate belief that writing and art could make life bet ...  Show more

Unweekendalest23 – La rencontre entre Levan Berdzenichvili et Elena Botchorichvili fut l’opportunité d’évoquer la littérature et ses frontières. La littérature n’est-elle pas en perpétuelle évolution ? D’un côté, un écrivain, traducteur, spécialiste de littérature et ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy. Sterne's comic masterpiece is an extravagantly inventive work which was hugely popular when first published in 1759. Its often bawdy humour, and numerous digressions, are combined with bold literary expe ...  Show more