30/06/2024
We broke 30,000 listens!
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More terrific material on the way.
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06/06/2024
Tim had a mind-blowing conversation with Marcus Chown about his book A Crack In Everything about Black Holes, which are neither black, nor holes! It's a fascinating conversation and we'll publish it on BooksPodcast.com very soon - Watch this space.
28/04/2024
We had a great time talking with Scalett Thomas about her amazing book The Sleepwalkers. She was charming and super smart. We had fun.
Have a listen to the interview on bookspodcast.com or subscribe to bookspodcast on your favourite podcast player.
26/03/2024
We had an excellent time talking with Adrian MacKinder about his new book Death And The Victorians. The interview is up now on BooksPodcast.com
09/03/2024
Spotted in pride of place in a bookshop in King's Cross.
Listen to our fascinating interview with Mike Jay on bookspodcast.com.
03/03/2024
BooksPodcast Live! at the Dublin Castle in Camden with the entertaining and clearly brilliant Dr Alwyn W Turner, talking about his new book Little Englanders - Britain in the Edwardian Era.
To hear it, go to bookspodcast.com or your favourite podcast player and search for Bookspodcast
23/02/2024
Remember that BooksPodcast goes live on Tuesday.
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Dr Turner's book is getting rave reviews from some of the brightest minds in journalism, including a double-page spread in the Times from Dominic Sandbrook!
Come and hear him interviewed by Tim Haigh on Tuesday at the Dublin Castle pub in Camden. Doors at 6. https://LittleEnglanders.eventbrite.com
See you there?
14/02/2024
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10/02/2024
We interviewed Howard Jacobson about his new book What Will Survive of Us. The interview will go up soon on bookspodcast.com
Watch that (and this) space.
02/02/2024
We're at it again! Live at the Dublin Castle pub in Camden, in front of a live audience, including you?
Doors at 6, show at 7:30.
Interviewing Dr Alwyn Turner, cultural historian and all-round genius. He's funny, too.
Got your tickets here
Join us for an epic BooksPodcast Live! event at The Dublin Castle pub in Camden, where bookworms unite for a night of literary awesomeness!
06/01/2024
BEHIND THE POST OFFICE SCANDAL
We interviewed the journalist who broke and pursued the Post Office scandal story, Nick Walace.
It's a good interview and sets out the facts in a clear and appalling way.
Worth a listen.
Nick Wallis – Bath Publishing – £25 It is the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history. Hundreds of innocent people prosecuted, ruined, often imprisoned – their lives destroyed. And hundreds more dismissed from their jobs and their livelihoods, obliged to pay thousands and even...
11/12/2023
Well that's a nice round number (-ish).
Especially satisfying, considering that a decent proportion of early episodes have fewer than 10 listens!
12/11/2023
Sound on.
Dr Thomas Halliday gave us a much needed lesson in perspective in his interview about his book Otherlands on BooksPodcast.com.
Enjoy and subscribe.
25/10/2023
We had a great time at 21Soho as guests of Walthamstow Rock N Roll Book Club, talking to Philip Norman about his biography "George Harrison - The Reluctant Beatle". The recording will go up as the next episode on bookspodcast.com very soon.
22/10/2023
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This Tuesday. Doors at 6.
See you there?
GEORGE HARRISON - THE RELUCTANT BEATLE book launch event - PHILIP NORMAN in conversation with BooksPodcast host TIM HAIGH
22/09/2023
We had a great time talking with Dr Sarah Ogilvie, former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and now Senior Research Fellow in Oxford University about her new book "The Dictionary People: the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary" for BooksPodcast.com
17/09/2023
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Louise Willder is queen of Books Blurbage and she writes smartly and entertainingly about it. She's also a lovely interviewee on BooksPodcast.com
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17/09/2023
Splendid time talking with Mike Jay about his book The Psychonauts. The interview is fascinating and it's on BooksPodcast.com.
Listen and enjoy.
01/08/2023
Rather a thrilling day today interviewing legendary movie director Neil Jordan about his excellent new novel The Well Of St Nobody. We'll be posting the interview on Sunday as usual.
30/07/2023
Barry Forshaw on bookspodcast.com
Along with many other terrific interviews. Subscribe in your favourite podcast player.
29/07/2023
Looking forward to interviewing Neil Jordan, next week, about his new book The Well Oscar Saint Nobody for https://bookspodcast.com
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The Well of Saint Nobody eBook : Jordan, Neil: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
29/07/2023
Looking forward to interviewing Neil Jordan, next week, about his new book The Well Oscar Saint Nobody for https://bookspodcast.com
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Well-Saint-Nobody-Neil-Jordan-ebook/dp/B0BLF8G9YT/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3A9GRKL73E1PR&keywords=the+well+of+saint+nobody+neil+jordan&qid=1690602538&sprefix=neil+jordan%2Caps%2C120&sr=8-1
It was the Age of Thatcher, and beyond the playgrounds of the red-braces wide boys and the Sloane Square privileged, it was grim. Unemployment was a weapon in the class war. The Yorkshire Ripper ran riot. Bitter industrial disputes divided communities, while the police was brutally remade into a nat...
25/07/2023
Looking forward to interviewing film director and novelist Neil Jordan about his new book The Well Of Saint Nobody.
You'll know Neil from his wonderful books and from directing The Crying Game, Mona Lisa and many more.
The interview will be going up on bookspodcast.com soon.
Subscribe on your favourite player.
16/07/2023
Tim interviewed Cathi Unsworth about her book Season Of The Witch for BooksPodcast.com in her delightful garden.
Take a listen on the website (details in our profile) and subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
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Sound on. What do you do, if you're the ghost? Evie Wyld has a beautiful new book out. She came and talked to us about it on bookspodcast.com. It's a lively and interesting interview on her elegant exploration of generational trauma. Listen, like, subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
Sound On. Robert Newman (yes, THAT Robert Newman) came onto BooksPodcast.com to talk about his illuminating book, Neuropolis- A Brain Science Survival Guide. It's a good listen. Listen, like, subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
Sound On. Steve Richards is one of the UK's leading political commentators and he came onto BooksPodcast.com to talk about his fascinating book The Rise of the Outsiders. It's a terrific interview! Listen, like subscribe on your favourite player.
Sound on. On BooksPodcast.com, we celebrate authors and their books. But, sometimes, just sometimes a book turns up that celebrates the authors we need to forget. Christopher Fowler came on to talk about his book Forgotten Authors. It's really funny. Listen, like and subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
Sound On. If there was a division within the police that deals with actual magic crime, we wouldn't know. Ben Aaronovitch takes that idea into a sparkling procedural and he came to talk to BooksPodcast.com about it. Listen, like, subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
Sound on. On BooksPodcast.com, we celebrate authors and their books. But, sometimes, just sometimes a book turns up that celebrates the authors we need to forget. Christopher Fowler came on to talk about his book Forgotten Authors. It's really funny. Listen, like and subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
Sound On. Some of the wilder horror paperbacks are discussed in Grady Hendix's wonderful book Paperback From Hell. He came onto BooksPodcast.com to tell us about it - it's eye-opening! Listen, like, subscribe on your favourite podcast player
Sound On, Aggression, adrenaline and steam have to go somewhere - should we simply accept that it's going to happen? Toby Litt came onto BooksPodcast.com to tell us about his fascinating and oddly gentle memoir, Wrestliana. It's a good listen. Listen, Like, Subscribe on your favourite podcast player - now on YouTube as well.
Sound On. Robert Kuttner came onto BooksPodcast.com to talk about his fascinating book Can Democracy Survive Globalisation? where he charts causality from mid-70's unfettered free trade to Trump. It's a terrific interview: listen, like and subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
Sound On Tom Kirkham came onto BooksPodcast.com to talk about his book Pop Life: a "highly medicated" search for live music that makes for a hilarious and touching travelogue of sorts. Listen, like and subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
Sound On, Journalist Ray Connoly knew the Beatles almost from day 1. He came onto BooksPodcast.com to talk about his revealing and fascinating book "Being John Lennon". A great interview. Listen, like and subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
Sound On. Julian Bagggini is a popular philosopher. He came onto BooksPodcast.com to tell us about his thought-provoking book How The World Thinks. It's an enlightening interview. Listen, like and subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
Sound On. Is it true that most men have paid for sex? Randy Ross came onto BooksPodcast.com to talk about his entertaining novel Thank God For Cambodia, a fairly autobiographical tale of terrible tourism. It's an eye-opener! Listen, like and subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
Sound on. We had our minds blown when we spoke to Marcus Chown about his book A Crack In Everything on BooksPodcast.com It's a fun interview - nothing we thought we knew about black holes is true! See what you think - listen and subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
Sound On Comics expert, Joel Meadows, came onto BooksPodcast.com to talk about his book on the greatest comics artists and their legacies. It's fascinating and very nerdy. :-) Listen, like and subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
Sound On. Why does The Right keep winning the arguments? Ben Burgis, in his book "Give Them An Argument", suggests it's because The Left has too nuanced a world view. He came onto BooksPodcast.com to tell us about it and it's fascinating! Listen, like and subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
Sound On. Robert Elliott Smith is one of the world's experts on AI, having worked in that world for decades. In a slightly frightening but excellent interview on bookspodcast.com about his illuminating book Rage Inside The Machine, he sets out how Internet algorithms are making bigots of us all. Listen, like and subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
Sound On. Dr Ross Barnett wrote this brilliant book, The Missing Lynx (D'ya see what he did, there?) and came onto BooksPodcast.com to talk about it. It's fun, interesting and informative. How Rheithian! Listn, like and subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
Sound On. Scarlett Thomas came to talk to BooksPodcast.com about her new book The Sleepwalkers: a terrifying tale! Scarlett, however, is charming and really lovely. We had fun! Listen, like and subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
Sound On. If Decca had turned down The Beatles! Ray Connolly was a music journalist and friend of the Beatles and, his book Sorry Boys, you Failed the Audition, imagines what would happen . He came to talk about it with us on BooksPodcast.com. It's a fun idea and the interview is enlightening! Listen, like, subscribe on your favourite podcast player.
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