Fiction

Top episodes in Fiction

What effect has the internet, social media and AI had on language? Should you judge a book by its cover? This week, linguistic legend and British OBE recipient David Crystal joins us to discuss all things words, idioms, dialects and the curious facts he found while researching his latest publication, Bookish Words. 00:

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Zibby Owens 24 Mar 2025 • EN

Zibby Owens discusses On Being Jewish Now

Barbara Peters in conversation with Zibby Owens  

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Oliver Webb-Carter & Sarah Gristwood 29 Mar 2025 • EN

Women's History with Miranda Malins & Sarah Gristwood

During March we’ve had Women’s History Month, and in that vein I invited two Aspects of History authors on to discuss. Sarah Gristwood is a historian and the editor of the recent Secret Voices, and Miranda Malins is a novelist and historian, and is currently writing a non fiction book on the Cromwell dynasty. We discus

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Neil Denny & Jonathan Lethem 02 Jan 2024 • EN

Little Atoms 876 - Jonathan Lethem's Brooklyn Crime Novel

in the first show of 2024, Jonathan Lethem joins Neil Denny to talk about his new book Brooklyn Crime Novel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Oliver Webb-Carter & Marshall Poe 09 Dec 2023 • EN

The Vietnam War: The My Lai Massacre with Marshall Poe

In November 1969 news broke of a massacre of Vietnamese civilians by US troops in the village of My Lai in the So Tonh district of Kwang Nai in the South Central coast region of Vietnam. The killings themselves had taken place more than a year earlier on the 16th March 1968. It’s difficult to know how many deaths there

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Yvonne Battle-Felton & Steve Schlam 28 May 2024 • EN

Bookable Space with Steve Schlam

In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Steve Schlam. Steve reads from The Harvesting of Haystacks Kane and talks to us about writing, dreaming, creativity, taking readers on a journey on the river of words, and more. About the Author: STEVE SCHLAM was born and brought up in the Boroug

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