Explore Podcasts
Sort by:
Sort by:
Banyan
Robert Olen Butler
‘I wake and it’s dark and a woman is beside me, naked and small, and she is waking too and the room is still heavy with the incense she burned for her dead.’
Adam Foulds | Podcast
Adam Foulds
Adam Foulds spoke to John Freeman about how he wanted to be a scientist before discovering writing and his time working in a warehouse as a forklift truck driver.
Mo Yan | Interview
Mo Yan & John Freeman
‘My life is more current, more contemporary and the cutting throat cruelty of our contemporary times limits the romance that I once felt.’
Sunjeev Sahota | Podcast
Sunjeev Sahota & Ellah Alfrey
Sunjeev Sahota speaks with Ellah Alfrey about his work, Midnight's Children and having a day job.
Jeet Thayil | Podcast
Jeet Thayil & Ted Hodgkinson
Jeet Thayil talked to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about being shortlisted for the Booker, the images of Christ woven into his novel Narcopolis and an unexpected digression on Blade Runner.
Sonia Faleiro | Podcast
Sonia Faleiro
Sonia Faleiro on marginalized narratives, her time as a reporter and how gender influences her work.
Robert Coover | Podcast
Robert Coover & Ted Hodgkinson
Robert Coover reads his short story ‘Vampire’ and discusses the quintessential English novel and the intersection between myth and the modern world.
Evie Wyld | Podcast
Evie Wyld & Ted Hodgkinson
Evie Wyld talks to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why living in Peckham makes it easier to write about rural Australia, how memory informs her stories and why she can’t write a novel without at least one shark in it.
Nadifa Mohamed | Podcast
Nadifa Mohamed & Ted Hodgkinson
Nadifa Mohamed speaks with Ted Hodgkinson about her first novel, Black Mamba Boy.
Alison Moore | Podcast
Alison Moore & John Freeman
Alison Moore spoke to John Freeman about the experience of being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, why her characters often find themselves enclosed in a memory and writing short.
Will Self & Mark Doty | Podcast
Mark Doty & Will Self
Will Self and Mark Doty's discussion with Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing about blood, the surprising relationship between Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman and the nature of addiction.
Taiye Selasi | Podcast
Taiye Selasi & Ellah Allfrey
Taiye Selasi talks about her mother’s garden, Rachmaninov and learning to speak Italian.
