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Mothers and mythologies ᛫ Daisy Johnson
August 01, 2018 06:08 - 12 minutes - 16.9 MBFollow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Music is Orbiting A Distant Planet by Quantum Jazz http://po.st/OrbitingADistant Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Getting published & committing to your story ᛫ Fatima Farheen Mirza
July 26, 2018 01:02 - 12 minutes - 16.6 MBFatima Farheen Mirza has sitting in a McDonalds when she got the call of her life... A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza http://po.st/4i5jLE Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Music is Orbiting A Distant Planet by Quantum Jazz http://po.st/OrbitingADistant Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sarah Jessica Parker ᛫ On loving books, finding voices and A Place for Us
July 25, 2018 01:02 - 25 minutes - 34.5 MBWe talk to Sarah Jessica Parker about her life-long love of reading and the recent launch of SJP for Hogarth and her first acquisition, A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza. A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza http://po.st/4i5jLE Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Music is Orbiting A Distant Planet by Quantum Jazz http://po.st/OrbitingADist...
Around the World in Vintage Books
July 19, 2018 01:03 - 23 minutes - 32.1 MBThe Vintage bookish experts give you a run down of books to take you around the world this summer... Liz's recommendation: Waiting For The Wild Beasts To Vote by Ahmadou Kourouma http://po.st/uu0f7y Ed's recommendation: Home and Away, Writing the Beautiful Game by Karl Ove Knausgaard http://po.st/Q51vQ6 Ellie's recommendation: Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue http://po.st/24q94N Corina's recommendation: Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami http://po.st/aKtCa4 Rowena's recommendation...
Trump, Obama, speech writing and hope for the future ᛫ Ben Rhodes
July 11, 2018 01:02 - 23 minutes - 32 MBWe talk to Ben Ben Rhodes, who was President Obama’s speechwriter, foreign-policy adviser, and confidant. His book records the Administration’s struggle to shape its own narrative. The World As It Is tells the full story of what it means to work alongside a radical leader; of how idealism can confront reality and survive; of how the White House really functions; and of what it is to have a partnership, and ultimately a friendship, with a historic president. Read more at https://www.penguin...
Coming of age in a war zone ᛫ Gaël Faye
July 05, 2018 01:02 - 18 minutes - 26.1 MBSmall Country by Gaël Faye http://po.st/QCHbus Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Women's prisons & the politics of guilty ᛫ Rachel Kushner
June 27, 2018 01:02 - 27 minutes - 37.3 MBFind out more about The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner http://po.st/TheMarsRoom Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Stealing the Master's ideas ᛫ Henry James
June 20, 2018 01:02 - 22 minutes - 30.3 MBA live event all about the wonderful new collection, 'Tales from a Master's Notebook, Stories Henry James Never Wrote' http://po.st/1tAWOl Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter When Henry James died he left behind a series of notebooks filled with ideas for novels and stories that he never wrote. Now ten of our best contemporary authors and James e...
Waves of Feminism ᛫ Meg Wolitzer
June 06, 2018 01:37 - 15 minutes - 20.7 MBWe spoke to Meg Wolitzer about her new book, The Female Persuasion http://po.st/uogZyB Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
007 is dead...
May 28, 2018 01:00 - 9 minutes - 17.2 MBFollow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What makes a spy? ᛫ Roland Philipps
May 18, 2018 16:14 - 21 minutes - 29.2 MBDonald Maclean, code name Orphan, was the most enigmatic member of the infamous Cambridge spies. Like the rest of that extraordinary group, Maclean was recruited while at university to become a mole for Russia’s Communist regime during the Cold War, leaking huge amounts of top-secret British intelligence before he was forced to disappear. On a damp day in April this year, author Roland Phillipps took Alex Clark on a tour of Whitehall, where Donald worked for the Foreign Office and spied for ...
Remembering Angela Carter ᛫ Carmen Callil
May 10, 2018 01:00 - 16 minutes - 22 MBWe talk to publisher, editor and friend of Angela Carter, Carmen Callil. Where to start with Angela Carter: http://po.st/WhereToStartACarter Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Head and the Heart ᛫ Christie Watson & Suzanne O'Sullivan
May 03, 2018 01:00 - 21 minutes - 29.9 MBA nurse and a doctor walk in to a recording studio... and ask if medicine an art or a science, wonder what they would change about the health care system in the UK and talk about the patients they'll never forget. Brainstorm, Detective Stories From the World of Neurology by Suzanne O'Sullivan: http://po.st/BrainstormP The Language of Kindness, A Nurse's Story by Christie Watson: http://po.st/LanguageofKindnessP Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newslet...
'This is the worst life decision I have ever made!' Cat Person, a short story
April 26, 2018 16:58 - 41 minutes - 56.9 MBTo celebrate the release of Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian we have a very specialaudi Check out the book: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1116767/cat-person/ Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Translating a love story ᛫ THE EDITING ROOM ᛫ Nicky Harman & Nick Skidmore
April 19, 2018 14:52 - 19 minutes - 27.2 MBWe talk translation, Chinese culture and love with translator Nicky Harman and editor Nick Skidmore. Our Story by Rao Pingru, Nicky Harman (Translator) Check out the book: http://po.st/OurStoryRao Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Rao Pingru was a twenty-six-year-old soldier when he first saw the beautiful Mao Meitang. One glimpse of her throu...
Off to Italy with The Leopard
April 12, 2018 01:00 - 11 minutes - 21.8 MBThe Leopard, Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa http://po.st/uUd8wp Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Off to Italy with The Leopard
April 12, 2018 01:00 - 11 minutes - 21.8 MBThe Leopard, Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa http://po.st/uUd8wp Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Talking Trump and Borders with Francisco Cantú and Misha Glenny
April 06, 2018 15:49 - 22 minutes - 31 MBThe Line Becomes A River by Francisco Cantú http://po.st/rnpATd Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Samantha Harvey on writing the 15th Century
March 29, 2018 16:24 - 18 minutes - 24.8 MBLeena Norms talks to Samantha Harvey about her book The Western Wind Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter 15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove Saturday, an explanation has to be found: accident, suicide or murder? The village priest...
The Editing Room | Kirsty & Liz
March 22, 2018 15:42 - 26 minutes - 48.7 MBKirsty Logan and her editor Liz Foley hash out the editing process and how Kirsty's New Book, The Gloaming, came to be. Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Kirsty Logan - The Gloaming 'The best lives leave a mark.' A bewitching tale of first love, shattering grief, and the dangerous magic that draws us home. Mara’s island is one of stories and ...
A beginners guide to Trainspotting...
March 15, 2018 15:39 - 19 minutes - 34.9 MBNever read Trainspotting? There's never been a better time. In preparation for the release of Dead Men's Trousers, we learn a little bit about the context of Trainspotting from publicist and Welsh enthusiast Aiden. Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Irvine Welsh - Dead Men's Trousers Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter,...
Drawing Suffragettes... with Mary and Bryan Talbot
March 07, 2018 12:50 - 18 minutes - 25 MBTo celebrate International Women's Day we're revisiting one of our favourite interviews - Mary and Bryan Talbot discuss how they wrote the story of Sally Heathcote and turned it in to a graphic novel. Books mentioned: This Is Just My Face, Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe http://po.st/3npVj5 My Own Story (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Emmeline Pankhurst http://po.st/Wk536x Motherhood by Sheila Heti http://po.st/yiA8zE Brit(ish), On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch htt...
Things you'll know if you're a bookworm... with Lucy Mangan
March 02, 2018 16:39 - 21 minutes - 30.1 MBAlex Clark and Lucy Mangan discuss best-beloved books, their extraordinary creators, and looks at the thousand subtle ways they shape our lives. Lucy's top 4 children's books for grown-ups http://po.st/LucyMangansTop4 Read an extract from the book http://po.st/BookwormExtract Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
Things you'll know if you're a bookworm... with Lucy Mangan
March 02, 2018 16:39 - 21 minutes - 30.1 MBAlex Clark and Lucy Mangan discuss best-beloved books, their extraordinary creators, and looks at the thousand subtle ways they shape our lives. Lucy's top 4 children's books for grown-ups http://po.st/LucyMangansTop4 Read an extract from the book http://po.st/BookwormExtract Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter See acast.com/privacy for p...
Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone
February 22, 2018 07:00 - 22 minutesAlex Clark meets Richard Lloyd Parry, whose new book tells the story tells of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and the bleak struggle to find consolation in the ruins. Read more about the book: Ghosts of the Tsunami, Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry http://po.st/CAJ24J Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Richard Ll...
Being Brit(ish) with Afua Hirsch
February 15, 2018 02:00 - 21 minutes - 30 MBAfua Hirsch talks to Leena Norms all about race, belonging and the British crisis of identity. Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Afua Hirsch - Brit(ish) **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** Where are you really from? You’re British. Your parents are British. You were raised in Britain. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are Briti...
Mythologies and Debuts | Imogen Hermes Gowar and Kerry Andrew
February 01, 2018 16:45 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MBWe're talking mermaids, folksong and mythology with two of our new Vintage voices; Imogen Hermes Gowar and Kerry Andrew. The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar: po.st/TheMermaidAndMrsHancock Swansong by Kerry Andrew: po.st/Swansong Thanks to Kerry for letting us use her music for this podcast. The two tracks featured were, in order of appearance, Three Ravens and Molly Bawn. Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about ou...
Julian Barnes reads from The Only Story
January 18, 2018 02:00 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MB'Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.' Author Julian Barnes reads from his forthcoming new novel... Don't forget, leave us a review on iTunes to be in with a chance of winning a copy of the book! Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Julian Ba...
Mince pies...and murder... a classic festive crime story
December 21, 2017 02:02 - 15 minutes - 28 MBA classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder. We bring you an extract from Murder for Christmas by Francis Duncan http://po.st/C2JkbL. Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbr...
Mince pies...and murder... a classic festive crime story
December 21, 2017 02:02 - 15 minutes - 28 MBA classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder. We bring you an extract from Murder for Christmas by Francis Duncan http://po.st/C2JkbL. Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbr...
Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary
December 14, 2017 17:23 - 10 minutes - 20.1 MBHer house is on Montpelier Parade – just across town, but it might as well be a different world... This week on the Vintage Podcast we bring you an extract from the Costa shortlisted Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary. Listen to the whole book: http://po.st/MontpelierParadeAudio Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Karl Geary - Montpelier Parade ‘A...
Charles Dickens | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Helen Simpson join Alex Clark
November 30, 2017 02:00 - 27 minutes - 50.3 MBWhere would we be without Charles Dickens? The biographer and academic Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and short story writer Helen Simpson join Alex Clark for a very festive edition of the Vintage Podcast. Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Robert is an award-winning biographer and Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. His most recent book is The Story o...
A True Story of Monstrous Deception...
November 23, 2017 17:38 - 3 minutesFor lovers of Serial, a special audio extract from the Sunday Times best seller The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère Find out more about the book here: http://po.st/TheAdversary THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH Emmanuel Carrère - The Adversary ON THE SATURDAY MORNING OF JANUARY 9, 1993, WHILE JEAN CLAUDE ROMAND WAS KILLING HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN, I WAS WITH MINE IN A PARENT-TEACHER MEETING... With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychol...
Do fish feel fear? | Surprising truths about animals with Stephen Moss and Peter Wohlleben
November 16, 2017 00:00 - 28 minutes - 52.4 MBWe meet animals experts and authors Stephen Moss and Peter Wohlleben talk about the strange and wonderful inner life of robins, crows and horses we might not be able to see from a glance... Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How To Stop Brexit - Nick Clegg tells us how...
November 09, 2017 18:04 - 3 minutes - 6.5 MBKeep calm – but do not carry on. A special audio extract from Nick Clegg's new book, How To Stop Brexit. Download from audible: po.st/HowToStopBrexitAudible Learn more about the book: po.st/HowToStopBrexit *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Keep calm – but do not carry on. There is nothing remotely inevitable about Brexit – except that it will be deeply damaging if it happens. Extricating Britain from Europe will be the greatest challenge this country has faced since the Second World War. And...
Ghost writing and criminal minds | Richard Flanagan on the Vintage Podcast
November 02, 2017 14:29 - 18 minutes - 34.4 MB'I only realised this later, much later, when I came to fear that the beginning of that book was also the end of me.' Alex Clark talks to Man Booker Winner Richard Flanagan Read more about his wonderful book, First Person: http://po.st/FirstPerson Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Six weeks to write for your life... In this blistering story ...
Simon Schama and the story of the Jews
October 19, 2017 17:00 - 21 minutes - 28.9 MBThe Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. Alex Clark speaks to Simon Schama about his new book Belonging, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. Read an extract from the book: http://po.st/f9Igdl Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Simon Schama - Belonging Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 by the Daily Telegraph, Mai...
Simon Schama and the story of the Jews
October 19, 2017 17:00 - 21 minutes - 28.9 MBThe Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. Alex Clark speaks to Simon Schama about his new book Belonging, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. Read an extract from the book: http://po.st/f9Igdl Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Simon Schama - Belonging Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 by the Daily Telegraph, Mai...
Vintage Poetry | Part Two | Michael Symmons Roberts
October 05, 2017 16:00 - 18 minutesOur Poetry Special - part two! This time we're talking to Michael Simmonds Roberts about his new poetry collection, Mancunia... Read an extract from the book: http://po.st/f9Igdl Manchester books that will make you want to visit http://po.st/ACfKjx Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Michael Simmonds Roberts - Mancunia Shortlisted for the 201...
Vintage Poetry | Part One | Ocean Vuong & Kayo Chingonyi
September 21, 2017 17:01 - 22 minutesGearing up for National Poetry Day, we talk to two of our favourite poets and hear some of their poetry. Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong http://po.st/NightSkyWithExitWounds Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi http://po.st/kumukanda Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Roddy Doyle talks school days, pubs and finding the perfect title
September 07, 2017 17:22 - 23 minutesAn honest conversation with Roddy Doyle, author of The Commitments, Two Pints, The Barrytown Trilogy and now, his new book, Smile. Take a look at the book itself: po.st/DoyleSmile Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: http://po.st/vintagenewsletter Smile has all the features for which Roddy Doyle has become famous: the razor-sharp dialogue, the humour, the superb evocati...
Driving a short distance with Joff Winterhart
August 24, 2017 14:45 - 22 minutesVintage Podcast goes on the road with graphic novelist Joff Winterhart to talk about illustration, storytelling and see the sights of London! Take a look at the book itself: http://po.st/DrivingShortDistances Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/vintagebooks Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: https://www.penguin.co.uk/vintage More about Driving Short Distances by Joff Winterhart Sam is 27 and needs to get a j...
Vintage Summer Podcast | Part Two
August 01, 2017 01:00 - 34 minutesWelcome back to the second instalment of our Summer Read Two-Part Special here on the Vintage Podcast. Come rain, showers or maybe even a bit of sun, we’re here to introduce you to the authors behind some of Vintage’s newest and most anticipated fiction. Books Featured: A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee http://po.st/StateOfFreedom Missing Faye by Adam Thorpe http://po.st/MissingFay I Found My Tribe by Ruth Fitzmaurice po.st/ifoundmytribe Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintag...
Vintage Summer Podcast | Part Two
August 01, 2017 01:00 - 34 minutesWelcome back to the second instalment of our Summer Read Two-Part Special here on the Vintage Podcast. Come rain, showers or maybe even a bit of sun, we’re here to introduce you to the authors behind some of Vintage’s newest and most anticipated fiction. Books Featured: A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee http://po.st/StateOfFreedom Missing Faye by Adam Thorpe http://po.st/MissingFay I Found My Tribe by Ruth Fitzmaurice po.st/ifoundmytribe Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintag...
Vintage Summer Podcast | Part One
July 07, 2017 08:40 - 46 minutes - 86.4 MBOn a quest to find you something to read in the sun, Alex Clark joins Brian van Reet, Elif Batuman and Laurent Binet to give you a taster of the best Vintage as to offer this summer. Featured: Brian van Reet – Spoils https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1111841/spoils/ Elif Batuman – The Idiot https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1096423/the-idiot/ Laurent Binet – 7th Function of Language https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1110804/the-7th-function-of-language/ Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebo...
The Vintage Podcast with Salman Rushdie at 70
June 19, 2017 11:10 - 44 minutes - 486 MBAlex Clark joined Salman Rushdie at the Bath Festival for a conversation celebrating his 70th birthday. The duo discussed Rushdie’s novels, what it means to be eight weeks older than India, migration and the mindset that migrants acquire to survive, his friendship with Bruce Chatwin, and living in New York in the 1970s. Salman Rushdie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His novel Midnight’s Children won the ‘Booker of Bookers’. Hi...
David Grossman on A Horse Walks into a Bar
June 14, 2017 22:00 - 28 minutes - 65.5 MB'If you are able to make fun of yourself, you are not a victim. The situation that previously has paralysed you lost its power.' WINNER OF THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE David Grossman, author of To the End of the Land and Falling Out of Time, joins us to discuss his most recent novel, the prize-winning A Horse Walks into a Bar. He expounds on the book's genesis, the difference between Israeli and Yiddish humour, and the stories we tell ourselves as people and nations. Read on for m...
The Outsider
May 26, 2017 14:00 - 45 minutes - 105 MBThis May we celebrate outsiders: the people on the fringes; those who go against the grain. Irvine Welsh joins us to discuss his friendship with Howard Marks, once Britain’s most wanted man, and author of drug-smuggling travelogue Mr Nice. Tracy Chevalier breaks down her entry in the Hogarth Shakespeare series, New Boy, a remix of Othello set in the school playground. And taking us off the airwaves, J. D. Daniels discusses his idiosyncratic essay collection, The Correspondence, his thoughts o...
The Vintage Podcast with Yanis Varoufakis
May 24, 2017 09:30 - 27 minutes - 62.2 MB'The people of Britain chose Brexit – they did not choose which Brexit' Yanis Varoufakis, author most recently of Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment, was intricately involved in the highest levels of negotiations pertaining to Greece’s position within the EU. Now he campaigns globally for an international progressive alliance. Varoufakis talks with us about the stark choices he faced before, during, and after his tenure as finance minister. Was he willing to becom...
Dystopias: Trump’s First 100 Days
April 20, 2017 18:30 - 53 minutes - 121 MBIn this month's podcast we look at President Trump's first hundred days in office and the concurrent rise of interest in dystopian fiction. Will Rycroft joins Howard Jacobson to discuss how he transformed indignation into his new novel, Pussy. Yale Professor Timothy Snyder reads from his 'intervention' On Tyranny, and Stuart Williams and Will Smith speak on the book's schedule-defying publication. We close with Charlotte Knight, Fiona Wilson and Will Rycroft trying to understand the surge of ...