The Guardian Books Podcast
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Subscribe free to our weekly podcast, presented by editor of Guardian books Claire Armitstead, for author interviews, readings and discussions - plus a full recording of our monthly book club
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Guardian Books podcast: Philosophical nonsense | Two hundred years after the birth of Edward Lear, Michael Rosen celebrates his literary legacy, while we return to another classic of children's philosophy, Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth | 23 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Marilynne Robinson talks about Gilead to book club | Marilynne Robinson discusses writing about families and religion her Pulitzer prizewinning novel, Gilead, and why she agrees with Obama on the subject of gay marriage | 18 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Writers and the British landscape | As the British Library exhibition Writing Britain opens, curators Jamie Andrews and Tanya Kirk guide us through the imaginative territories writers have carved out from these British Isles | 11 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Literature which disrupts reality | Can realism match up to the reality of the modern world? We chart the different directions chosen by writers Jeet Thayil and Etgar Keret as they push fiction out of the comfort zone | 4 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast special: Jane Rogers wins Arthur C Clarke award | Jane Rogers has won this year's Arthur C Clarke award for The Testament of Jessie Lamb, her first foray into science fiction. She talks to Sarah Crown | 3 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Artangel Books podcast: Caryl Phillips in A Room for London | The novelist and essayist is the fourth writer to take up residency in A Room for London on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank. Listen to the thoughts inspired by his stay | 1 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Dracula's literary legacy | One hundred years after the death of Bram Stoker, we lift the lid on the literary legacy of his most famous creation: Count Dracula | 27 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Fathers in literature | We investigate fathers and sons with Karl Ove Knausgaard and Noah Hawley | 20 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Should China be the focus of the London Book Fair? | The 'market focus' of this year's London Book Fair has prompted English PEN to hold a conference to discuss writers' freedoms. We hear from that conference, from correspondent Tania Branigan in Beijing and Jonathan Fenby | 9 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Artangel books podcast: Sven Lindqvist at the Room for London | The great Swedish historian Sven Linqvist spent his 80th birthday in A Room for London on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank. Listen to the thoughts inspired by his stay | 9 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Love and poetry with Fiona Shaw | The sound of love will echo around the British Isles this summer, as tents spring up on remote beaches in a series of installations called Peace Camp. The actor Fiona Shaw launched the project with performances of readers' favourite love poems at the Guardian Open Weekend | 29 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anne Enright meets the Guardian book club – podcast | Irish author and Booker prize winner Anne Enright talks to John Mullan at the Guardian Review book club about her tale of adultery in the time of boom and crash, The Forgotten Waltz | 28 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Andrew Motion and Anthony Horowitz on sequels | Andrew Motion and Anthony Horowitz discuss the pleasures and pitfalls of picking up the baton from Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle | 22 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Helen Simpson reads a short story for Mother's Day | In our final short story podcast for Mother's Day, Helen Simpson reads Early One Morning, from her collection Constitutional | 18 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Colm Toibin reads a short story for Mother's Day | In the third of our Mother's Day short story podcasts, Colm Toibin reads "Song" from his collection Mothers and Sons, which tells of a chance meeting in a pub in County Clare between a long-estranged mother and her son | 16 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Tessa Hadley reads a short story for Mother's Day | In honour of Mother's Day, we're airing a special series of podcasts featuring four short stories about motherhood. For the first, Tessa Hadley reads 'Coming Home' by Elizabeth Bowen | 13 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: John Lanchester and Paul Mason on fact and fiction | Novelist-turned-economist John Lanchester and Newsnight journalist-turned-fiction-writer Paul Mason explain how the two genres overlap | 9 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Artangel books podcast: Jeanette Winterson | Jeanette Winterson has spent four days in A Room for London on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank. Listen to her read the essay she's written about her experience | 6 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Debut novels | First novels are bursting forth like spring flowers: Justin Torres and Patrick Flanery talk about theirs, while publishers Selina Walker and Leah Woodburn discuss how to make a first book a success | 2 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGuardian books podcast: Anne Frank | More than half a century after the death of Anne Frank, Shalom Auslander, Nathan Englander and Naomi Alderman discuss how Jewish writers are still struggling with victimhood | 24 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Susan Hill meets the Guardian book club – podcast | The author of The Woman in Black talks ghosts with Professor John Mullan | 23 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Historical fiction | Kate Grenville, Clare Clark, and Hilary Mantel recount their experiences with a genre acquiring more and more critical clout | 17 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Lawrence Durrell at 100 | On the 100th anniversary of Durrell's birth, Jan Morris considers his work and Joanna Hodgkin discusses his life and her new biography | 10 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Guardian Dickens walk five: Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum | Follow a tour around the house where Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth 200 years ago | 2 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Haunting stories | Helen Dunmore on writing a ghost story for the revenant house of Hammer to publish as a book and then to film | 2 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Juan Gabriel Vásquez at A Room for London | Juan Gabriel Vásquez, the Colombian novelist, the first occupant of A Room for London - shares his thoughts from on top of the South Bank Centre over the Thames | 31 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Reading the Arab spring | A year after the Egyptian uprising, we look at the literature coming out of the region; and Craig Thompson talks about his graphic novel Habibi, in which Islam meets Christianity | 27 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Andrew Miller wins Costa book of the year | Andrew Miller reads from and discusses his novel Pure, which has won this year's Costa book of the year prize, and we listen in to last night's award ceremony | 25 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGuardian Books podcast: Chad Harbach and Andrew Miller | Chad Harbach discusses his debut novel The Art of Fielding; we wonder about the Great American Novel and talk to Costa novel of the year winner Andrew Miller | 20 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian books podcast: John Burnside wins TS Eliot poetry prize | John Burnside, who has won the TS Eliot prize for 2011 for Black Cat Bone, reads from the collection and talks to Claire Armitstead | 16 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Travel writing – pole to equator | Noo Saro-Wiwa on Nigeria, and Sara Wheeler on the fascination of the planet's poles | 13 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Guardian books podcast: Science fiction now and tomorrow | Novelists Alastair Reynolds, Lauren Beukes, Michael Moorcock and Jeff Noon talk about the state of SF | 6 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Book Club: Claire Tomalin on Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol | Guardian Book Club podcast: Claire Tomalin, author of the latest biography of Charles Dickens, talks to John Mullan about A Christmas Carol | 16 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: What's in store for 2012 | From finance to fiction, we round up the most promising books that are coming up in the new publishing year | 16 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Celebrity books for Christmas | Terry Jones talks about why he's taken his collection of short stories to a small publisher, Russell Potter tells us the inspiration for his tale of a learned pig and John Harris rounds up the best and worst of this year's celebrity memoirs | 15 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Review of the year 2011 | This year the Books podcast has travelled from Paris to Edinburgh and from Krakow to Kolkata. Come with us as we look back at the highlights of a year's literary podcasting | 14 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: 2011 in fiction | The authors of some of the year's most acclaimed books – Ali Smith, Patrick Ness and Sarah Hall – join us as we look back on some highlights of the year | 9 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Money | Novelists Justin Cartwright, Alex Preston and Barry Unsworth talk about stories of capitalism | 1 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: First Book award | We speak to all five authors shortlisted for the Guardian First Book award: novelists Stephen Kelman, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Mirza Waheed and Amy Waldman as well as 'biographer' of cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee | 25 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dickens audio tour: David Copperfield | Follow a walking route around key sites from the London of David Copperfield, Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novel | 24 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeffrey Eugenides meets the Guardian book club – podcast | The Pulitzer prize-winning author talks to John Mullan about his novel Middlesex | 22 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGuardian Books podcast: Africa and post-post-colonialism | We explore a new generation of writing from the continent with Binyavanga Wainaina and Brian Chikwava | 17 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian books podcast: Armistice Day | A special programme to mark Armistice Day. Michael Morpurgo on why the first world war is the symbol of all wars, Louisa Young on her novel of the western front and Andrew Motion on war poetry | 10 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Rhetoric and the Iliad | We examine the contemporary obsession with Homer's Iliad, and chart the course of rhetoric through the ages | 3 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: The family in literature | Authors Gerard Woodward, Kevin Wilson and Stephan Solzhenitsyn discuss the role of the family in literature | 26 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Nicholls meets the Guardian book club: podcast | The author explains the story behind his word-of-mouth hit One Day, a love story set on the same day over 20 years | 21 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGuardian Books podcast: Christmas books with Nile Rodgers and Noel Fielding | Self-styled Freak Nile Rodgers tells his life story and how he became leader of the disco band Chic; Noel Fielding of the Mighty Boosh brings out a picture book; and Vanessa Thorpe discusses books for Christmas | 20 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Barnes wins Booker | Julian Barnes has won the 2011 Booker prize with his slim novel, A Sense of an Ending. Claire Armitstead asks critic Alex Clark and editor of the Guardian Review Lisa Allardice for their reactions | 18 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: First novels with Erin Morgenstern, SJ Watson and Jacques Strauss | Should writers rely on inspiration or training? We visit a Guardian masterclass and discuss the issue with first-time authors Erin Morgenstern, SJ Watson and Jacques Strauss | 14 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charles Frazier meets the Guardian book club – podcast | The novelist discusses the personal and political history which fed into Cold Mountain | 11 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Guardian Dickens audio tours: Rochester | Follow a walking route through Rochester, charting the course of Charles Dickens life, in the second of three audio tours marking the Books Season | 11 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Poetry and prizes | John Burnside wins the Forward prize with Black Cat Bone, but wants to talk about pink-footed geese, Fiachra Gibbons finds English poets performing in Paris, while Lavinia Greenlaw takes poetry to St Pancras | 7 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Cybercrime and Russia's mafia state | Misha Glenny explores new forms of globalised crime, Luke Harding recounts his hair-raising experiences as a reporter in Russia, and Anna Funder treads the boundary between fiction and history in her new novel | 30 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Dickens turns 200 | A birthday special for Boz, as Claire Tomalin talks about her new biography of the great man, we visit the Dickens museum and leading writers pick their favourites of his novels | 23 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Guardian Dickens audio tours: Oliver Twist | Follow Oliver Twist's walking route from Angel Islington to the courthouse of Mr Fang in the first of three audio tours marking the Books Season | 22 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Travel writing | Colin Thubron goes to Tibet, Mike Carter gets on his bike and Edward Docx finds a faraway location for his new novel | 16 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Cookery books and 9/11 stories | Cookery books from 400 years of history are demonstrated, with cakes to taste, by Penelope Vogler; and writing about 9/11 | 9 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alan Hollinghurst meets the Guardian book club – podcast | The novelist discusses The Line of Beauty with Professor John Mullan and takes questions from the audience | 9 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: 2011 Booker shortlist | The Man Booker prize shortlist was announced this morning. Guardian head of books Claire Armitstead and guardian.co.uk/books editor Sarah Crown discuss the chosen six | 6 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian books podcast: First Book Award and Francisco Goldman | A look at this year's longlisted books, and an interview with Juan Pablo Villalobos – the first author to earn a place on the longlist by readers' votes | 1 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books Podcast: New Scottish writing | We uncover the best new Scottish writing, and consider the question of national identity in fiction. And James Yorkston sings for us at the home of his admirer, Ian Rankin. | 27 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian book club podcast: Neil Gaiman | On the 10th anniversary of American Gods, Neil Gaiman meets the Guardian book club at the Edinburgh International Book festival | 23 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian books podcast: Revolution for the modern world | From the Arab spring to social media, we interrogate 21st-century revolution with Cory Doctorow, Siddhartha Deb, Annabelle Sreberny, Gholam Khiabany, and Angela Saini | 22 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian books podcast: Gothic Edinburgh | A look at the darker side of the festival city, with Louise Welsh, Richard T Kelly and Kevin MacNeil | 18 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jackie Kay and Sebastian Barry: Identity and struggle | In our inaugural podcast from the Edinburgh international book festival, Sebastian Barry and Jackie Kay talk to us about the themes that power their work | 15 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian books podcast: AL Kennedy and the Edinburgh international book festival | AL Kennedy talks about the art of manipulation in her latest novel, The Blue Book, while we look ahead to the best of the Edinburgh international book festival | 12 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian books podcast: Joe Dunthorne, Ross Raisin, and book formats | Is this the summer of the ebook? We debate how format influences our reading. Plus Joe Dunthorne and Ross Raisin join us to talk about following up on successful debut novels | 5 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian books podcast: Booker longlist and novelistic history | We cast our eye over the Booker longlist, while historian Peter Englund talks about constructing an intimate history of the first world war | 29 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Nicholls reads 'Every Good Boy' | In the first of the stories from our summer short fiction special, David Nicholls reads 'Every Good Boy' | 22 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian books podcast: Crime fiction and children's summer reading | Tana French and Sophie Hannah talk about the varieties of crime fiction, and we look at the best summer reads for children and visit the Pop-Up festival for kids | 22 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian books podcast: Water words | Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair talk about the sea in literature and reveal plans for the Shorelines festival | 15 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Cunningham meets the Guardian book club – podcast | The novelist discusses his Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Hours with Professor John Mullan | 8 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian books podcast: Amy Chua and Julie Myerson | Amy Chua explains that she is not actually a 'tiger mother' and Julie Myerson discusses writing about her children and motherhood in her latest novel | 8 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: new literary directions, and Jon Ronson's Psychopath Test | Change is upon us in the books world. We review Faber's Waste Land iPad app, talk to children's editor Julia Eccleshare about JK Rowling's latest venture and consider a new subscription-based publishing model. Finally, Jon Ronson talks about the process of researching his book, The Psychopath Test | 1 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edward St Aubyn meets the Guardian book club – podcast | The novelist talks about how he was drawn back to his fictional alter ego Patrick Melrose to write Mother's Milk and answers questions from the audience | 27 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Glad to be a gay writer? | Stella Duffy, Paul Burston, Neil Bartlett and Max Schaefer talk about how much being gay matters to their work, and their readers | 24 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Do books have a future? | Publishers, academics, digital pioneers and writers assembled in Milan at the Book Tomorrow conference. Claire Armitstead went along to find out what the future holds for the printed word | 17 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGuardian Books podcast: Feminism in literature | How literature has engaged with the feminist movement, with Orange prize 2011 winner Téa Obreht, Granta editor John Freeman and writers Naomi Alderman and Ann Patchett | 10 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Téa Obreht and David Bezmozgis | Two of the New Yorker's '20 best writers under 40' join us to talk about history, fable and the resurgence of the picaresque novel | 3 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Politics in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan | In the first of a new series on how writers use fiction to make political cases, we focus on the Indian sub-continent, with Tahmima Anam, Mirza Waheed, Aatish Taseer and Mohsin Hamid | 27 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Review Book Club: Mohsin Hamid on The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Mohsin Hamid talks to Professor John Mullan about his Booker-nominated novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist | 24 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Essays and translating Tagore | As a new imprint dedicated to essays is launched, we ask what they are; and we discuss Rabindranath Tagore and the place of poetry in translation with poet Alice Oswald | 20 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Arts and science, one culture | Tim Radford and Peter Forbes talk about how their work combines subjects usually kept separate | 13 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian books podcast: Anne Enright and Edward St Aubyn | Anne Enright discusses her latest novel The Forgotten Waltz and Edward St Aubyn introduces the final book in his Melrose series | 6 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Cricket classics and The Bicycle Book | Anthony Bateman, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Cricket, discusses the history and literature of the game with Guardian cricket writer Andy Bull; meanwhile Bella Bathurst, author of The Bicycle Book, goes riding with Claire Armitstead | 28 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Jennifer Egan and Easter reading for children | Jennifer Egan talks about the book which won her the Pulitzer, David Lodge considers HG Wells and we recommend the best Easter reading for children | 22 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGuardian Books podcast: Orange prize, Oil stories, and America's future | Emma Henderson on her Orange prize shortlisting, introducing our new Oil stories series and listening to Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story | 14 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Polish literature and Russian science fiction | Claire Armitstead finds Yuri Gagarin still inspiring writers in Russia, guest of honour at next week's London Book Fair, while James Hopkin goes to Krakow in search of Poland's literary soul | 8 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Coe meets the Guardian book club - podcast | Jonathan Coe talks to Professor John Mullan at the Guardian Book Club about his novel, What a Carve Up! and takes questions from the audience | 7 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Spanish literature and leaving a language behind | Giles Tremlett goes in search of the home of Spanish literary culture, while the Hungarian poet George Szirtes explains why he writes in English | 1 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: French literature | Fiachra Gibbons reports from a festival of French books in Paris, where he finds an unlikely youth icon in Stéphane Hessel, while the Guardian's Jon Henley examines the myths and mysteries of French literature | 25 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Books in Germany and an interview with Orange prize longlisted Carol Birch | Helen Pidd in Berlin finds out what Germans are reading, you tell us your favourite German books, Simon Winder explores the roots of German culture – and Carol Birch talks about her latest novel, Jamrach's Menagerie | 18 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Heroines and feminists | In International Women's week we look at the true heroines of literature, from Rosa Luxemburg to Georgia's 12th-century queen Tamar | 10 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books Podcast: Imagining Libya with Hisham Matar, and World Book Day | The novelist Hisham Matar, whose father was imprisoned in Libya over 20 years ago talks about the perils of mixing fact and fiction, while Frank Cottrell Boyce boards a train at Liverpool Lime Street to celebrate World Book Day | 4 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Memory and truth | Can writers ever grasp the truth? The biographer Anne Perkins delves into Barbara Castle's archives and Richard Lloyd Parry tells us about the difficulties in resolving the murder of Lucie Blackman | 25 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Lonely hearts ads and children's war stories | In Valentine's week we discuss a history of lonely hearts ads, and as half-term arrives, there's a colourful new exhibition on war stories for children at the Imperial War Museum | 18 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Writing and illness | A look at literature in the sickroom, with Sarah Manguso, Robert McCrum, and a report on how reading itself might help recovery | 11 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Life, death and literary critics | John Gray, Philip Ball and Alok Jha on the science and philosophy of life and death; and Paul Bailey on his new novel dealing with last things. We also ask if lit crit is obsolete in the age of social media | 4 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian book club podcast: Andrea Levy | The writer explains how Small Island was driven by a wish to write about her parents' experience as immigrants, and that of the white British who met them | 31 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guardian Books podcast: Rock memoirs with Kristin Hersh | Kristin Hersh discusses her memoir of music and madness, and plays some tunes; Richard Williams reveals he has letters from John Lennon and we hear the poets who won the Costa and TS Eliot prizes | 28 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 100 Episodes |
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Episode 7
I don't know why episode 7 didn't get onto iTunes, but it is downloadable on the Guardian Book website: http://download.guardian.co.uk/sys-audio/Books/audio/2007/07/23/Wolf_Brother_Episode7.mp3
Wolf Brother epsiode 7
I'm really enjoying the serialisation of Wolf Brother. I've been podcasting them for my 10 year old daughter who loved the book but found myself listening to them as well. I listened to and enjoyed episode 6 but I've just been sent episode 8. What happened to episode 7? Did anyone else get it?
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