The Book Club

The Book Club

Literary interviews and discussions on the latest releases in the world of publishing, from poetry through to physics. Presented weekly by Sam Leith.

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Latest Episode

Max Hastings: Sword – D-Day, Trial by Battle (20.08.2025)

Previous Episodes

  • Joanna Pocock: Greyhound 13.08.2025
  • Nicola Barker: TonyInterruptor 06.08.2025
  • Gary Shteyngart: Vera, or Faith 30.07.2025
  • Frances Wilson: Electric Spark – The Enigma of Muriel Spark 23.07.2025
  • Irvine Welsh: Men In Love – Trainspotting Sequel 16.07.2025
  • M. John Harrison: The Course of the Heart 09.07.2025
  • Karin Slaughter: We Are All Guilty Here 02.07.2025
  • Carl Zimmer: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe 25.06.2025
  • William Dalrymple: The Golden Road 18.06.2025
  • Lucy Mangan: How Reading Shapes Our Lives 11.06.2025
  • Alice Loxton: Eighteen – A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives 04.06.2025
  • Robert Macfarlane: Is a river alive? 28.05.2025
  • Geoff Dyer – the Proust of prog rock and Airfix 21.05.2025
  • Julie Bindel: Lesbians – where are we now? 14.05.2025
  • Daniel Swift: The Making of William Shakespeare 07.05.2025
  • Anne Sebba: The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz 30.04.2025
  • Lamorna Ash: A New Generation's Search for Religion 23.04.2025
  • Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street – On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia 16.04.2025
  • Fara Dabhoiwala: What Is Free Speech? 09.04.2025
  • Joe Dunthorne: Children of Radium 02.04.2025

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