The Booking Club Podcast

10/04/2024

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14/01/2024

📣 2024 INTRODUCES

Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of Ogilvy UK and author of the brain-teasing:

📚Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense📚

Rory and Jack Aldane discuss the reason logical ideas so often fail, why they keep coming, and what this means in an election year.

Coming soon!

22/12/2023

🎁 UNWRAP NOW! 🎁

A Christmas Special Epsiode of The Booking Club

🎉 Stuffed: a History of Good Food & Hard Times in Britain, with Pen Vogler

Join Pen and Jack Aldane as they chart the evolution of 🇬🇧’s most celebrated, hard-won and forgotten delicacies at Brunswick House in Vauxhall. 🪿🧀🍷🍺

🔗 https://shows.acast.com/5eb2ec99ca791fe17f6feae0/6584b2ef33cccc0016374938

🔗 https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-booking-club/id1447366966?i=1000639415369

15/12/2023

🚨 SPECIAL EPISODE ‼️

Festive times…🎄✨🍰🥧🍬🦃

…festive measures…

Looking forward to meeting author Pen Vogler at her favourite restaurant to tuck into:

✨ STUFFED ✨, A History Of Good Food And Hard Times In Britain 🇬🇧

Coming soon!

Catch up with The Booking Club in 2023 here

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29/09/2023

🚨 War and Peace in 's Golden Age, with Tom Holland is UP!

Listen to Jack Aldane and the bestselling author & co-host of The Rest is History talk PAX, Tony Soprano, boxing and W H Auden, with much 🍷 at Noble Rot Restaurant and Wine Bar.

🍎 https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-booking-club/id1447366966?i=1000629673274

Acast: https://shows.acast.com/5eb2ec99ca791fe17f6feae0/6516e7a514883400115a41d1

07/09/2023

🔉 NEW EPISODE OUT SOON brings historian and The Rest is History podcast co-host Tom Holland back to the club!

Tom and Jack Aldane meet for dinner to talk about 📚 PAX 📚, Tom’s latest gripping account on War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age.

31/08/2023

🚨NEW EPISODE of The Booking Club !

Authors Remi Adekoya & Kenan Malik meet Jack Aldane for dinner to discuss their latest 📚 about race and class.

They discuss the fallout in the West of allowing institutions that breed solidarity to erode, and how Africa wins in the 21st Century.

🔗 https://shows.acast.com/5eb2ec99ca791fe17f6feae0/64ee3f1df714670011195c26

10/08/2023

Fanmail for The Booking Club from holidaymakers in the UK ❤️

🔗 https://shows.acast.com/thecornertable

02/08/2023

On the latest episode, Mark Watson and Jack Aldane talk about the way social media turns ordinary lives into brands, and why applying the metrics of success used in show business to our daily lives can have disastrous consequences.

FULL EPISODE: 🔗shows.acast.com/thecornertable…

25/07/2023

🚨COMING SOON‼️

Jack Aldane meets Mark Watson at his chosen haunt to discuss 📚 MORTIFICATION 📚, a call for us all to stop trying to ‘win at life’, and the living death it took for him to discover what really matters.

Don’t miss this. Orion Publishing Group

23/06/2023

🎧 Listen here to Ben Judah’s fascinating explanation of how Emmanuel Macron’s style of political leadership taps into France’s unconscious desire for a monarch.

FULL EPISODE on Ben’s new book,📚 THIS IS EUROPE 📚, out now with Picador books
👇

02/06/2023

In the latest episode of The Booking Club, Nick Wallis explains how covering the trial in America made clear how 's invention of Captain Jack Sparrow unleased an indomitable cultural force elevating him to royal status among fans.

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31/05/2023

🚨NEW EPISODE of The Booking Club !🚨

Listen to journalist Nick Wallis and host Jack Aldane clink glasses at what he considers northwest Surrey’s “best Indian restaurant for miles”, Babucci, as they discuss his new book documenting the Hollywood celebrity trial of our time, .

Apple: 🍎 apple.co/429gRU8
Spotify 🎶: spoti.fi/3qmqYYo
Link🌲: bit.ly/3N3hU3x

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05/05/2023

🚨🎙️COMING SOON!🎙️🚨

DEPP vs HEARD : The Unreal Story, is author and journalist Nick Wallis’s new account of his transatlantic investigation of the celebrity trial of the decade.

On the next ep, he and Jack Aldane examine the proceedings, the feverish culture it created online, and more.

02/05/2023

Mary Harrington, author and contributing editor to UnHerd meets Jack Aldane at Andrew Edmunds for Ep. 55 to discuss:

📚FEMINISM AGAINST PROGRESS📚 Forum Press

Listen to the full conversation👇

Apple: apple.co/40QTXjy
Spotify: spoti.fi/3oXrpYs
Linktree: bit.ly/3LIVYu9

30/04/2023

🎙️NEW EPISODE of The Booking Club 🎙️

Author and contributing editor at UnHerd Mary Harrington meets me at Andrew Edmunds in SOHO to tell the story of how she lost her faith in progress, why she remains a feminist, and what this means today.

Apple: apple.co/40QTXjy
Spotify: spoti.fi/3oXrpYs
Linktree: bit.ly/3LIVYu9

11/04/2023

📣 NEXT UP! Mary Harrington meets Jack Aldane at her favourite restaurant to discuss 📚FEMINISM AGAINST PROGRESS 📚, the new book out on Forum Press that former guest Louise Perry likens to “downing a packet of Tangfastics after a lifetime of gruel”.

COMING SOON!

02/04/2023

💥 Would 'How to Fight a War' read completely differently were it written by North Korea's Ri Yong-gil❓

💥Do autocrats secretly know that they are primed to lose wars❓

Jack Aldane asks Mike Martin War Studies King's College London on Ep.54

Apple: apple.co/40vzrpy
Spotify: bit.ly/3m16SkD

31/03/2023

🗣️IT’S HERE!

Ep. 54 of The Booking Club : 📚 How to Fight a War 📚, with Dr Mike Martin of War Studies King's College London is LIVE!

Listen now to the author and Jack Aldane breaking bread at Sankey's Old Fishmarket in and discussing the book that’ll test your stomach for the job of Commander in Chief.

Apple: apple.co/40vzrpy
Spotify: bit.ly/3m16SkD
Acast: https://bit.ly/40R8Kv1

25/03/2023

Ta Ra Sankey's 😘 👋,

Thanks Mike Martin of King's College London, Liberal Democrats, for introducing me to the 🦞 linguine, and for the words of encouragement (???) in Jack Aldane’s copy of 📚How to Fight a War📚

Next episode with Mike drops on 31st March. Listen to it, then buy his book!

20/03/2023

🎧Jane MacSorley tells Jack Aldane about how she entered the bizarre world of a US fugitive who faked his death only to reappear in a COVID ward in Glasgow, claiming to be an Irishman.

Episode 53 on the Audible Original serial ‘I Am Not Nicholas’ is out now 👀👇

Apple apple.co/3JIV1AR
Spotify bit.ly/42jhU5a
Acast bit.ly/3LNcNVh

17/03/2023

🪑You’ll want to be sat down for this…

Episode 53 of The Booking Club : ‘I Am Not Nicholas’, the chart-topping Audible Original series BBC Studios, with MacSorley and Jack Aldane at La Trompette, out now 👀👇

Apple: apple.co/3JIV1AR
Spotify: bit.ly/42jhU5a
Acast: bit.ly/3LNcNVh

“I am not Nicholas Rossi!” gasps Arthur Knight through an oxygen mask in March 2022. Recently discharged from a Covid ward in Glasgow, he's in a wheelchair. The police say he’s Nicholas Rossi, suspected of faking his death and wanted for r**e in Utah. The story makes headlines globally. When j...

11/03/2023

🚨 One to set your⌚️for this…

From La Trompette, Jane MacSorley lifts the lid on the making of ‘I Am Not Nicholas’, the Audible original series BBC Studios that is storming the listening charts.

New episode dropping soon!

02/03/2023

🚨 LISTEN UP!

March’s double bill brings Mike Martin to the table with Jack Aldane to discuss his new book with Hurst Publishers…

From getting supplies and logistics right to training troops to fight smart and care for one another, this is:

HOW ⚔️ TO ⚔️ FIGHT ⚔️ A ⚔️ WAR

17/02/2023

🚨 IN MARCH…

…The Booking Club is dropping two new episodes, starting with Jane MacSorley and Jack Aldane discussing Audible’s superb original series made by BBC Studios:

⚠️Do not press play if you have plans ⚠️

08/02/2023

🚨NEW EPISODE!

The Atlantic Staff Writer and author Helen Lewis & Jack Aldane discuss BBC Radio 4’s The New Gurus: how Steve Jobs’ search for the big answer birthed endless productivity hacks, the Gish-galloping Jordan Peterson & more.

Apple: apple.co/3llONNL
Spotify: spoti.fi/3RGOxF0
Acast: bit.ly/3x5Wx9

07/02/2023

Get ready…

SCOOPS by Sam McAlister to be made into a Netflix movie with Billie Piper Gillian Anderson Rufus Sewell and Keeley Hawes

Massive congratulations to the author!

🔗 https://deadline.com/2023/02/scoop-gillian-anderson-rufus-sewell-billie-piper-keeley-hawes-cast-prince-andrew-bbc-newsnight-interview-movie-netflix-1235251820/amp/

03/02/2023

🚨January brought Jack Aldane together with Sam McAlister at The Wolseley to recount the seismic Prince Andrew interview with Emily Maitlis for BBC Newsnight + what her career has taught her about power.

Apple: apple.co/40inhQY
Spotify: spoti.fi/3HLi3Gw
Acast: bit.ly/3RgxEAU

31/01/2023

🚨SCOOPS with Sam McAlister is up!

Listen to this fabulous first episode of the year with the BBC’s veteran booker and now bestselling author of a gallant tribute to TV producers.

Apple: apple.co/40inhQY
Spotify: spoti.fi/3HLi3Gw
Acast: bit.ly/3RgxEAU

27/01/2023

You just cannot beat a rare sirloin steak at Hawksmoor Borough on a Friday. Nor a complimentary glass of wine!🙏

Thank you so much Helen Lewis of The Atlantic for giving us a reason to come here and for lifting the lid further on The New Gurus for The Booking Club’s February episode.