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- 1 A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever LivedAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 2 How to Argue with a RacistAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 3 A Fortunate ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 A Seventh ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Black and British: A Forgotten HistoryDavid Olusoga · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Control: The History and The Disturbing Present of EugenicsAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 CreationAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 G.John Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 John Berger, From LifeTom Overton · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Book of HumansAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The Human ConditionHannah Arendt · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Machine StopsE.M. Forster · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The Rise and Fall of the Artificial StateJill Lepore · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever LivedAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 2 How to Argue with a RacistAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 3 A Fortunate ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 A Seventh ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Black and British: A Forgotten HistoryDavid Olusoga · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Control: The History and The Disturbing Present of EugenicsAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 CreationAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 G.John Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 John Berger, From LifeTom Overton · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Book of HumansAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The Human ConditionHannah Arendt · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Machine StopsE.M. Forster · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The Rise and Fall of the Artificial StateJill Lepore · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever LivedAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 2 How to Argue with a RacistAdam Rutherford · 2× across 2 episodes
- 3 A Fortunate ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 A Seventh ManJohn Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Black and British: A Forgotten HistoryDavid Olusoga · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Control: The History and The Disturbing Present of EugenicsAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 CreationAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 G.John Berger · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 John Berger, From LifeTom Overton · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Book of HumansAdam Rutherford · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The Human ConditionHannah Arendt · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Machine StopsE.M. Forster · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The Rise and Fall of the Artificial StateJill Lepore · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
What Must Burnham Sacrifice To Make Britain Grow? With Michael Gove
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A Journey
Tony Blair
i do think that one of the best books written by a serving or recently serving politician about politics is his memoir ▶ tap to play from here
Why Are People Having Fewer Children Than They Want? With Camilla Cavendish
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Generation Maybe: Why We're Having Fewer Children and What It Means for Us All
Camilla Cavendish
in her new book generation may be why we're having fewer children and what it means for us all she investigates why birth rates are falling across very different countries ▶ tap to play from here
Extra Time: 10 Lessons for an Ageing World
Camilla Cavendish
i was in tokyo to write a different book which i published which was about the aging of the world ▶ tap to play from here
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
Richard Reeves
one of the fox that influenced me while i was reading while i was writing all this was richard reeves all those books about men and boys ▶ tap to play from here
Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis
Nicholas Eberstadt
the book he wrote that really made me think was called men without work ▶ tap to play from here
Archive: Can the Arts Drive Social Change? With Idris Elba, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Yassmin Abdel-Magied
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How One Family Remade Britain: Thomas and Oliver Cromwell, with Miranda Malins
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The House of Cromwell
Miranda Malens
her new book is called the house of cromwell ▶ tap to play from here
The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
we have a brand new edition of three volume edition from oxford university press of all of oliver cromwell's known letters writings and speeches ▶ tap to play from here
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
robert graves similarly with i claudius getting inside the mind of ▶ tap to play from here
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
hilary mantel that's what she does in wolf hall so brilliantly is ▶ tap to play from here
Can Europe Defend Itself? Timothy Garton Ash on Europe's Future
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Europe in Seven and a Half Chapters: The Shortest Introduction to the World's Oldest and Newest Continent
Timothy Garton Ash
his new book europe in seven and a half chapters the shortest introduction to the world's oldest and newest continent condenses a lifetime of studying traveling and writing about europe ▶ tap to play from here
Can Pigs Really Appreciate Bach? Katherine Rundell Live
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The Golden Mole: And Other Living Treasure
Katherine Rundell
in her book the golden mole the modern bestary she she gave us a kind of literary menagerie ▶ tap to play from here
Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell
captain is also of course the celebrated author of the impossible creatures series ▶ tap to play from here
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Katherine Rundell
super infinite the book about john dunn ▶ tap to play from here
Naturalis Historia
Pliny the Elder
pliny the elder who in seventy ad wrote a book called the historia naturalis ▶ tap to play from here
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
douglas adams author of pitch hackers guide to the galaxy ▶ tap to play from here
Last Chance to See
Douglas Adams
who also wrote a wonderful book called last chance to see ▶ tap to play from here
The Explorer
Katherine Rundell
reading um the explorer to my class probably up to my classes for about six years in a row now ▶ tap to play from here
Rooftoppers
Katherine Rundell
my best review i ever had was of rooftoppers and it was a one star on amazon ▶ tap to play from here
Archive: What Are the Chances We Exist at All? With Brian Cox and Alice Roberts
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Human Universe
Brian Cox
what you've been exploring more recently with your recent series and your recent book um brings us all the way to us ▶ tap to play from here
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being
Alice Roberts
i mean how y your book is called the incredible unlikeliness of being ▶ tap to play from here
The Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski
there's that great moment in in the sense of man when brunowsky is in ▶ tap to play from here
What James Baldwin Can Teach Us About the World Today
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Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
why does james baldwin's writing continue to resonate with readers 70 years after the publication of giovanni's room ▶ tap to play from here
Madame Sosa and the Festival of the Broken Hearted
Ben Okri
his most recent novel is madame sosa and the festival of the broken hearted ▶ tap to play from here
The Famished Road
Ben Okri
including the book of prize wedding the famous road and astonishing the gods ▶ tap to play from here
Astonishing the Gods
Ben Okri
including the book of prize wedding the famous road and astonishing the gods ▶ tap to play from here
Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
like five next time uh notes of a native sun and we wouldn't talk about the book we'll just swap lines ▶ tap to play from here
Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
James Campbell
good friend of mine i haven't seen him for a long time maybe he's in the audience called james campbell wrote a beautiful book later on about baldwin ▶ tap to play from here
Stars of the New Curfew
Ben Okri
i was in my twenties and i was struggling with a book of mine uh at the time called stars of the new cerfew book of short stories ▶ tap to play from here
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
so he writes go talit on the mountain and writes those great uh books of early essays ▶ tap to play from here
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
a response a kind of a letter a review from hana i think the lady the great lady who wrote the famous book on totalitarianism ▶ tap to play from here
Gravity and Grace
Peter Sterios
this is from the great lady who wrote this wonderful essay on the gravity and grace ▶ tap to play from here
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
uncle tom's cabin why baldwin over and over he was obsessed with it ▶ tap to play from here
The Last Gift of the Master Artists
Ben Okri
it's a conundrum i deal with in a novel of mine called the last gift of the master artists ▶ tap to play from here
The Price of the Ticket
James Baldwin
the first sentence of this tremendous book the price of the ticket is collected essays ▶ tap to play from here
The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer
forty eight mayler brings out the naked and the dead seminopo huge ball ▶ tap to play from here
Advertisements for Myself
Norman Mailer
a moment in um advertisements for myself miller wrote ▶ tap to play from here
The Age of Change with Jeremy Hunt, in Partnership with IBM
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Carlo Rovelli Live: Why Numbers Don’t Exist
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On the Equality of All Things
Carlo Rovelli
rovelli joined us at union chapel to explore some of the ideas at the heart of his new book on the equality of all things ▶ tap to play from here
The Road to Reality
Roger Penrose
i remember reading in roger penrose's the road to reality he sort of says some of this stuff you simply can't understand properly ▶ tap to play from here
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
the origin of species by darwin it's a very complicated argument ▶ tap to play from here
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
like in to so jeez ki when um chronic of in in in uh in um crime and punishment he says no no morality is relative ▶ tap to play from here
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Isaac Newton
so he goes to this beautiful book of keepia in which um he finds out that this attraction he writes a law ▶ tap to play from here
Anthony Scaramucci Tour Highlights
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All the Wrong Moves
Anthony Scaramucci
scaramucci towards seven cities around the uk to discuss his new book all the wrong moves ▶ tap to play from here
Harlan Coben and Bill Nighy on the Art of the Plot Twist
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Plot Twist
Harlan Coben
drawing on harlan's new book plot twist they explore what makes and create thriller ▶ tap to play from here
Tell No One
Harlan Coben
tell no one is arguably the book that broke you out as a major best selling thriller writer ▶ tap to play from here
The Stranger
Albert Camus
and the other example i will give you is the stranger when i wrote the stranger ▶ tap to play from here
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
most one of the most popular books of the last decade has been when the crawdad sings by delia owens ▶ tap to play from here
Promise Me
Harlan Coben
promise me which was the title of the book you won't do that ▶ tap to play from here
Fool Me Once
Harlan Coben
if you didn't like if you read fool me once and michelle keegan wasn't exactly how you pictured myers stern ▶ tap to play from here
Drop Shot
Harlan Coben
for the series we're using the book drop shot which is the second book in the series ▶ tap to play from here
Introducing: Intelligence Squared Live
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Britain’s War in Palestine, with Sebastian Faulks
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Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
author of books including birdsong cue and traces engleby and charlotte gray ▶ tap to play from here
Human Traces
Sebastian Faulks
author of books including birdsong cue and traces engleby and charlotte gray ▶ tap to play from here
Engleby
Sebastian Faulks
author of books including birdsong cue and traces engleby and charlotte gray ▶ tap to play from here
Charlotte Gray
Sebastian Faulks
author of books including birdsong cue and traces engleby and charlotte gray ▶ tap to play from here
Farewell to Eden
Sebastian Faulks
new novel farewell to eden a story of faith conflict and love set in postwar britain ▶ tap to play from here
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
if you read the golden notebook by doris lessing ▶ tap to play from here
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Amos Oz
his um memoir which is called not a very good title i think it's called the tale of love and darkness ▶ tap to play from here
The CIA vs MI6: Allies or Rivals? With David McCloskey
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London Station
David McCloskey
mccloskey and miller discussed the scenarios that inspired the former's latest thriller london station ▶ tap to play from here
Tabasco Station
David McCloskey
when i s when i started writing her n for my first novel tabasco station she i took inspiration from a particular cia case officer ▶ tap to play from here
Is There a Royal Sex Scandal Hidden in the Bayeux Tapestry? With David Musgrove
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The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry: Unraveling the Norman Conquest
David Musgrove and Michael Lewis
with michael lewis he wrote the story of the bayou tapestry unraveling the norman conquest ▶ tap to play from here
Anthony Scaramucci and Marina Hyde: What Comes After Trump? Live from Guildford
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All the Wrong Moves
Anthony Scaramucci
drawing on his new book all the wrong moves anthony and marina explored how decades of mistakes by both republicans and democrats paved the way for trump's rise ▶ tap to play from here
What Lyse Doucet Has Learned from 40 Years Reporting From War Zones, Live
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul
Lyse Doucet
dusset also discusses her women's prizewinning book the finest hotel in kabul which tells the story of modern afghanistan through the intercontinental hotel ▶ tap to play from here
The Dutch House
Ann Patchett
sort of like anne patchett writing the dutch house the building or and i was going to do a palace ▶ tap to play from here
State of Terror
Louise Penny, Hillary Clinton
she wrote a she wrote a book with hillary clinton called states of terror but she also writes writes car crime novels ▶ tap to play from here
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The Future Starts With Us
Gordon Brown
and then i was reading gordon brown's book uh the future starts with us and he sets it out so clearly ▶ tap to play from here
Anthony Scaramucci and Tina Brown on How To Fix America, Live in London
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All the Wrong Moves: How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the Rise of Trump
Anthony Scaramucci
in his provocative and really compelling new book all the wrong moves how three catastrophic decisions led to the rise of trump marina hyde calls it deliciously compelling ▶ tap to play from here
No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America's Workers
Robert Lighthizer
and this is something robert leitheiser wrote about in his book is we allowed them in they had emerging market status ladies and gentlemen so that meant they could ▶ tap to play from here
Streetwise: Getting to and through Goldman Sachs
Lloyd Blankfein
even you know lloyd blankfein just wrote a recent book my old boss from goldman he was the former ceo of goldman he received the bailout money and upon ▶ tap to play from here
Why Your Plans Will Fail After Five Minutes, and How To Fix Them, with Kevin Fong
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Minute Six: How High-Performance Teams Navigate the Unknown
Kevin Fong
it's a real pleasure to talk to you about your book here which i'm holding up for those who are watching on video minute six ▶ tap to play from here
Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body
Kevin Fong
a lot of your so this you know your previous book was called extremes life death and the limits of the human body ▶ tap to play from here
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