Biography and Memoir

There can be few writers more deserving of Backlisted’s attention than the Irish writer, Maeve Brennan. An adopted New Yorker, Brennan died there in 1993 and was by that time so thoroughly forgotten in her native land, that she received no obituaries in any Irish papers. We are j ...  Show more

Back in 2022, our guest was Stephen Fry, writer, actor and polymath, who joined John and Andy to discuss Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, the essay addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas in 1897 'from the depths' of Wilde's incarceration in Reading Gaol. It has been described by Colm Tóibín ...  Show more

Canadian International David Edgar is with us this week, talking through his time coming through ranks at Newcastle, signing for Owen Coyle at Burnley and the career threatening golf cart crash that nearly ended it all. 🤝Get £5 in free bets using code UTC5 when you sign up to B ...  Show more

We made it to Season 4! On today’s episode of That Was Us, we’re talking all about Season 4, Episode 1: Strangers. This episode weaves together the stories of three new characters: Cassidy, a soldier returning home from Afghanistan; Malik, a teenage father finding his way; and Ja ...  Show more

Responding to a special request from a listener, Jacke discusses Fyodor Dostoevsky, his novel The Brothers Karamazov, and the search for meaning in a meaningless world. This episode was originally released as episode #250 on October 7, 2020. For reasons Jacke discusses, it has no ...  Show more

🐉 THE EMPYREAN SERIES IS UPON US! ⚔️Welcome to Season 2 of Between Pages & Friends, a book club podcast hosted by two couples reading through your favorite fantasy series together.In today's episode, we're discussing chapters 1-8 of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (book one in the ...  Show more