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Wife on Earth - April 03, 2024 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingInspired by Jaron Lanier’s book, Celia joins Twitter so she can delete her account, and Fred meets a like-minded chum on Grindr. Preferring a simpler life, Celia goes to the Post Office and nearly destroys her marriage. Support the CSN at patreon.com/bookshambles
Lucy Nichol
Book Shambles - March 23, 2023 05:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsIn the first new episode in a while Robin and Josie chat to author Lucy Nichol about her latest book, 'Don't Call Me Snowflake'. Please note this episode contains discussions around the topics of mental health and suicide. This is an abridged version. Patreon subscribers get an extended version...
Live from Latitude - Helen Czerski and Kevin Fong
Science Shambles - October 13, 2022 05:30 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsRecorded LIVE at the 2022 Latitude Festival, Dr Helen Czerski and Prof Kevin Fong sit down to talk about the merits of space travel in a time where the Earth is gripped by a pandemic and climate change. Should we still be focussing on space travel? What can it teach us that helps with life on Ear...
Robin Ince's Bibliomaniac Launch Event
Book Shambles - October 06, 2022 05:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsToday is the day that Robin Ince's new book, Bibliomaniac, hits shelves around the UK so today's episode is a recording of the book's launch event which took place in East London on October 4th. Robin talks about the book and, well, a million other things because he was quite tired. This is an a...
Kamila Shamsie
Book Shambles - September 29, 2022 06:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsOn today's episode, Robin is joined by the multi award winning novelist Kamila Shamsie. They chat about her new novel Best of Friends, as well as how she knew from an early age she wanted to be a writer, letting go of books once they're finished and, obviously, the Clint Eastwood western musical ...
Sona Movsesian
Book Shambles - September 15, 2022 06:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsSona Movsesian has been Conan O'Brien's personal assistant for over 13 years. By her own admission, she is terrible at her job. She's been a regular on Conan's TV shows, co-hosts his podcast and has now written her first book, World's Worst Assistant. And, as she tells Robin on this week's episod...
Marina Hyde
Book Shambles - September 08, 2022 06:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsIn the week that actual Liz Truss became the actual Prime Minister of the actual United Kingdom, could there be a more appropriate guest to have on the show this week than political columnist Marina Hyde? She chats to Robin about her new book, What Just Happened, (which is out in a few weeks), tr...
Darryl Bullock
Book Shambles - September 01, 2022 06:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsOur guest this week is Darryl Bullock, author and winner of the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2022 for The Velvet Mafia. But he's on the show this week to talk about his brand new book, Pride, Pop and Politics: Music, Theatre and LGBT Activism, 1970–2022. He chats to Robin about researching for the b...
Jessamine Chan
Book Shambles - August 25, 2022 06:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWe spoke to US author Jessamine Chan right after her novel, The School for Good Mothers was just revealed to be on Barack Obama's Summer Reading List. She chats with Robin about bucking expectations of what the book is about, writer's who've inspired her, avoiding parenting advice and they both t...
Michael Dine
Book Shambles - August 18, 2022 06:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsOn today's episode Robin is joined by Dr Helen Czerski as co-host to talk to US physicist Professor Michael Dine about his new book This Way to the Universe. They chat about the challenges of explaining complicated ideas to a mass audience, string theory and the different ways to tackle physics p...
James Bridle
Book Shambles - August 11, 2022 06:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsArtist and writer James Bridle joins Robin this week to talk about his new book, Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence. They hat about AI, Darwin's less popular experiments, science fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin and Robin asks none of the questions from his two sets of notes. To hear an extended...
Oly Durose
Book Shambles - July 28, 2022 06:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsOn today's show, Josie talks to author and activist Oly Durose about his new book Suburban Socialism (or Barbarism). They chat about growing up conservative, reclaiming the suburbs, The Simpsons and the stigmas of social housing. Also Josie's baby gurgles adorably throughout the episode. Hear an...
Sarah Polley
Book Shambles - July 21, 2022 06:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsNot only is Sarah Polley an Academy Award nominated screenwriter and acclaimed actor and director, but she’s also written Robin’s favourite book of 2022 so far, Run Towards the Danger. In today’s episode she joins Robin to talk about the memoir, the childhood trauma of working with Terry Gilliam,...
Riley Black
Book Shambles - July 14, 2022 06:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsIt's Dinosaur Day at Book Shambles! Or rather, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, and the first days of the mammals. Helen Czerski is our host this week and she speaks with acclaimed dinosaur writer and fossil fanatic and hunter, Riley Black. They chat about why dinosaurs remain so exciting, what th...
Jim Al-Khalili Returns
Book Shambles - July 07, 2022 06:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsOn today’s episode Professor Jim Al-Khalili returns to the show to talk to Robin and Helen about his new book, The Joy of Science. They chat about how the age of Trump was the impetuous for writing the book, how it became even more timely in the age of COVID, the joy of being wrong and echo chamb...
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Book Shambles - June 23, 2022 06:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThe multi award winning writer Jocelyn Nicole Johnson joins Robin to talk about her debut novella, My Monticello this week. They chat about the book, how important it was to capture the feeling of a real place, and the long shadow of the events of Charlottesville on her life, and the book. Exten...
Alan Lane
Book Shambles - June 16, 2022 06:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThis week Josie Long is back from maternity leave and she takes the reigns of the podcast to talk to theatre maker and author Alan Lane about his new book The Club on the Edge of Town. They chat about how when COVID hit, and the theatres had to close, Alan turned his theatre company into a foodba...
Lindsey Fitzharris
Book Shambles - June 09, 2022 06:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsMedical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris is our special guest this week, talking to guest host Dr Helen Czerski about her new book, The Facemaker. Her book looks at the story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the m...
Daniel Sloss
Book Shambles - June 02, 2022 06:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThe acclaimed comedian Daniel Sloss joins Robin on the podcast to today to talk about his book, Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die, which has just been released in paperback. They chat about translating a stand up voice to the page, great comedy books and in a week where it's been very much in the...
Taking the Universe Around the World - Preview Episode
Book Shambles - May 26, 2022 06:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsRobin is currently on a world tour with Brian Cox and that means there's a whole world of secondhand bookshops to explore. Those adventures form a big part of his brand new podcast, Taking the Universe Around the World. So on Book Shambles this week we're sharing the first episode of that new se...
Fiona Fox
Book Shambles - May 19, 2022 06:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWe spend a lot of time at Shambles talking about science, so on today's episode of Book Shambles we're going to talk about how the media should and shouldn't talk, and write, about science. Helen Czerski guest hosts once again and she chats with Fiona Fox from the Science Media Centre who has jus...
Jules Howard
Book Shambles - May 12, 2022 06:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThis week Helen Czerski takes the host chair once again to talk to zoologist, author and broadcaster Jules Howard about dogs. His new book, Wonderdog, looks at the evolving science of dogs. How has humankind's favourite pet defied science and changed the way we think about animals overall, partic...
Rachel Parris
Book Shambles - May 05, 2022 06:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsOn today's episode Robin is joined by comedian Rachel Parris to talk about her new, and first, book, Advice from Strangers. She chats with Robin about writing the book, the pressure of remembering not everything has to be funny, Jane Austen, the difficulties of writing satire right now and the b...
Lauren John Joseph
Book Shambles - April 28, 2022 06:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThis week Robin is joined by artist and author Lauren John Joseph to talk about their new novel, At Certain Points We Touch. They chat about the book, literary influences and places that inspire creativity, particularly in their home town of Liverpool. To hear and extended version, subscribe at p...
Reece Shearsmith Returns
Book Shambles - April 20, 2022 06:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsTonight the ever brilliant Inside No. 9 returns to our screens for series 7 and so it is that Reece Shearsmith returns to Book Shambles! He joins Robin to talk about the new series, favourite episodes, great horror short stories and more. They're also joined by horror writer and historian Johnny ...
Patrick Radden Keefe
Book Shambles - April 14, 2022 06:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsOur guest today is the author of one of the most lauded books of 2021, the superb Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe. One of the awards it garnered last year was the highly prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and one of the judges on th...
Hayley Campbell
Book Shambles - April 07, 2022 06:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHayley Campbell is a writer and broadcaster you may best know for his book The Art of Neil Gaiman. Her latest book, All the Living and the Dead, looks at our relationship with death, and the people for whom death is their life. She joins Robin to talk about her fascination with death, seeing her ...
Veronica O'Keane
Book Shambles - March 31, 2022 06:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsVeronica O'Keane is a Professor of Psychiatry and this week she joins Robin and Helen Czerski to talk about her book The Rag and Bone Shop which deals with her thirty year investigation into memory. One of the exciting things about Veronica's book, for Book Shambles fans, is how her book takes us...
Kei Miller
Book Shambles - March 24, 2022 06:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsOn today's episode Robin is joined by author and poet Kei Miller to talk about his new collection of essays, Things I Have Withheld. They chat about the fear of writing such an honest book, how criticism and expectations of self differs from country to country, favourite Jamaican poets and much m...
Can Motorsport Science Save the World?
Science Shambles - March 21, 2022 12:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDr Kit Champman is a life long motorsport fan and as a scientist, he previously worked with Virgin Racing's Formula E team on the chemistry and material science of their cars. Many innovations, first developed for racing, have been incorporated into everyday life across fields of healthcare, flui...
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