Podcast Episodes featuring Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco in conversation with Paul Holdengräber

Intelligence Squared - February 26, 2016 17:59 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratings
RIP Umberto Eco, bestselling Italian author and semiotician perhaps best-known for his novel 'The Name of the Rose', who sadly died aged 84 earlier this week. This week's podcast revisits our event from November 2011, when we were lucky enough to host Eco as he discussed the persistence of conspi...

Umberto Eco In Conversation With Paul Holdengräber

Intelligence Squared - December 18, 2014 19:13 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratings
The persistence of conspiracies. Grasping the infinity of lists. Writing fiction about the real. The future of books. These are some of the topics Umberto Eco discussed with Paul Holdengräber, Director of LIVE at the New York Public Library, when he came to the Intelligence Squared stage in Nove...

Umberto Eco

World Book Club - December 25, 2007 16:41 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 335 ratings
Italian author Umberto Eco discusses his novel The Name of the Rose, set in a 14th Century Franciscan monastery and answers questions from an invited audience. (Photo: Umberto Eco)