Recent
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How Churchill went atomic and currents in science writing – books podcast
Audio (31min 04sec),19 Sep 2013
Graham Farmelo on Churchill's explosive role in developing the atom bomb, plus what's wrong with science writing?
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Catwalk shows and the fashion for covering up – books podcast
Audio (38min 32sec),13 Sep 2013
We look back to the birth of the fashion show with Caroline Evans and explore the global trend for modesty with Reina Lewis
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Tash Aw, Jonathan Coe and the best autumn fiction – books podcast
Audio (38min 31sec),5 Sep 2013
We travel to Shanghai with Tash Aw, Brussels with Jonathan Coe and scour the globe for this autumn's most exciting fiction
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Margaret Atwood on The Blind Assassin – books podcast
Audio (29min 07sec),28 Aug 2013
Margaret Atwood travelled from Canada by ship to appear at the Edinburgh international book festival. She talked to John Mullan at the Guardian book club about her Booker prize-winning novel, The Blind Assassin
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Seamus Heaney reads from Human Chain – books podcast
Audio (7min 39sec),30 Aug 2013
Seamus Heaney, who has died aged 74, won the Forward prize for poetry in 2010 with his last collection, Human Chain. Here he reads a selection of poems from the collection at the Poetry Prom in Aldeburgh
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Guardian Edinburgh Books podcast: Charlotte Mendelson and the World Writers' Conference
Audio (22min 33sec),18 Aug 2013
Why is Charlotte Mendelson's Booker-longlisted novel called Almost English, and what has Edinburgh world writers' conference achieved?
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Guardian Edinburgh books podcast: Roddy Doyle and Mark Forsyth
Audio (21min 41sec),11 Aug 2013
Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments makes a happy return - as do some of the more exotic words in the world's dictionaries
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Edinburgh international book festival podcast: Philipp Meyer
Audio (16min 29sec),10 Aug 2013
The American novelist talks about Texas, history and the sometimes blood-thirsty challenges of researching his latest novel The Son
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Namibia wipes colonialism off the map - audio
Audio (3min 56sec),9 Aug 2013
Zenzeli Khoisan explains how to pronounce !Nami=Nüs, the indigenous name replacing the colonial title of Lüderitz
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PJ Harvey's Shaker Aamer song - audio
Audio
(2min 48sec),
3 Aug 2013
PJ Harvey has released a new song to highlight the ongoing detention of the last British resident held in Guantánamo Bay
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Guardian Books podcast: Paul Theroux on The Great Railway Bazaar
Audio (29min 48sec),19 Jul 2013
The renowned travel writer comes to the Guardian Book club to discuss the book that made his name
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Global development podcast: can FGM be eradicated in a generation?
Audio (27min 54sec),29 Jul 2013
We debate the issues around female genital mutilation, including how many people are at risk, why the subject is taboo and what is being done to end it
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'There is not enough water and the sewerage system is over-flowing' - audio
Audio
(1min 37sec),
25 Jul 2013
Katie Seaborne of Save the Children describes the conditions at the refugee camp at Domiz in northern Iraq where more than 160,000 people have fled to from the conflict in Syria
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Guardian Books podcast: Rebecca Miller and Wu Ming rewrite history
Audio (35min 36sec),18 Jul 2013
Rebecca Miller investigates the history of Judaism, Jonathan Grimwood imagines the origins of fine taste and Wu Ming visit with another novel with a sideways slant on the 16th century
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Guardian Books podcast: Barbara Kingsolver on The Poisonwood Bible
Audio (35min 51sec),1 Jul 2013
Barbara Kingsolver came to the Guardian Review book club to talk about her best known novel, The Poisonwood Bible. She discussed her story of an evangelical American minister taking his wife and four daughters to live as missionaries in Congo, and looked back on her own childhood years in Africa
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