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John Bew
The world according to Henry Kissinger
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: The Lord by Soraya Antonius
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Ian Thomson
The great Italian escape
Wed 17 Dec 2025
The Wildest Moments of 2025 (Part 2)
21 mins • S1, E13
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Richard Ovenden
In defence of pedantry
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Paula Byrne
What to read to understand Jane Austen
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Elizabeth Kolbert to Tom Paulin
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Kathleen Jamie
Elizabeth Kolbert’s alarm call
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Lisa O’Kelly
James Fox: ‘The crafts are always revived in times of crisis’
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Sean O’Hagan
Tom Paulin’s exile state of mind
Wed 10 Dec 2025
2025 highlights: Katy Perry in space, the Coldplay concert affair, The Salt Path, Labubus…
38 mins • S1, E12
Matthew Bishop
Lessons of the 1929 Wall Street crash
Tue 9 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
Introducing The Observer’s Sunday poem
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Luke Turner
Lament for a lost London
Sat 6 Dec 2025
Lucy Popescu
What it means to be German
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Christopher Frayling
What to read to understand vampires
Fri 5 Dec 2025
What Spotify Wrapped 2025 tells us about the streaming industry
7 mins • S1, E1249
Eimear McBride
Return to the Jon Fosse universe
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Chris Power
The Future Loves You by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Jonathan Bate
The infernal world of Christopher Marlowe
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Christopher Marlowe to Joe Sacco
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Killian Fox
Joe Sacco: ‘I can’t turn away from what’s going on in Gaza’
Wed 3 Dec 2025
Spotify Wrapped 2025 and how to have good sex on film
40 mins • S1, E11
Sir Richard Lambert
The man behind Palantir’s military-industrial empire
Tue 2 Dec 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: We Live Here Now by CD Rose
Fri 28 Nov 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week: a Christmas books special
Thu 27 Nov 2025
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Jenny Erpenbeck: ‘I’ve seen a whole system collapse and fade away’
Thu 27 Nov 2025
Writers choose their 2025 favourites
Thu 27 Nov 2025
Wicked: For Good suffers from sequel overload & Timothée Chalamet’s shenanigans
44 mins • S1, E10
Kitty Empire
Greatest hits Radiohead reunion is a shape-shifting joy
Sat 22 Nov 2025
The Michael Jackson fan dilemma
9 mins • S1, E1239
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle
Thu 20 Nov 2025
Kitty Empire
Is Taylor Swift a great poet?
Thu 20 Nov 2025
Alex Clark
Jeanette Winterson’s story factory
Wed 19 Nov 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Jeanette Winterson to Taylor Swift
Wed 19 Nov 2025
The Michael Jackson movie controversy & Christmas advert wars
37 mins • S1, E9
Jude Rogers
TS Eliot’s 20th-century nightmare
Tue 18 Nov 2025
Writers, directors, foodies and friends pay tribute to Rachel Cooke
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Jade Cuttle
Digging for the dead
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Anthony Cummins
Confessions of a reluctant bookseller
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Rachel Cooke – in her words: a few highlights from 25 years of writing
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Simon Winchester
What to read to understand the weather
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Rowan Moore
The houses that England built
Sat 15 Nov 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Blinding by Mircea Cărtărescu
Sat 15 Nov 2025
Anthony Cummins
Emmanuel Carrère on 10 years since the Paris attacks
Thu 13 Nov 2025
Marina Wheeler
Lady Hale’s rescue plan for the legal system
Thu 13 Nov 2025
Anthony Cummins
David Szalay: ‘If you want to be a proper writer, you have to deal with the sordid’
Wed 12 Nov 2025
Zero stars for Kim Kardashian’s All’s Fair & David Harbour’s Stranger Things PR troubles
37 mins • S1, E8
Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively on the best children’s books of all time
Tue 11 Nov 2025
Penelope Lively
Why children’s books matter
Tue 11 Nov 2025
Anthony Cummins
Why David Szalay’s Flesh won the Booker prize
Mon 10 Nov 2025
Erica Wagner
Secrets of a Booker prize judge
Mon 10 Nov 2025
Hannah Rose Woods
Ferdinand Mount’s sentimental revolutions
Mon 10 Nov 2025
Ann Morgan
What to read to understand quests
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Killian Fox
Harold Offeh: ‘There was a visceral reaction to Lauren Halsey’s art’
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Fiona Noble
Young adult fiction of the month: spellbinding stories
Sat 8 Nov 2025
Chris Power
Paperback of the week: Dog Days by Emily LaBarge
Sat 8 Nov 2025
Zohran Mamdani takes on President Trump
34 mins • S1, E285
