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Weekend: episode two of a new podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	49:39
Weekend: episode one of a new podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	48:45
Comfort Eating with Grace Dent: episode one of a new podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	39:46
'Our climate crisis is a choice': Christiana Figueres on why we can change the future - books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	42:59
Why David Attenborough is famous but 'he isn't a celebrity' – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	37:17
From diseases to memes, how do things spread? - books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	32:31
Hunting down the 42 paintings of Pieter Bruegel - books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	36:38
Glenn Patterson and what to read while self-isolating – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	37:48
Who was St Paul? With Christos Tsiolkas and Tom Holland – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	37:40
'What if Gandalf joined The Sweeney?': Ben Aaronovitch on Rivers of London – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	32:37
Inside the Brontës' fantasy world, and a Booker controversy – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	36:24
The surprising history of astrology – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	30:07
Maaza Mengiste on the Ethiopian women who fought Italy – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	32:02
Sophie Hannah on the recipe for a perfect crime novel – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	34:35
Adam Rutherford on how to tackle racist pseudoscience - books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	32:03
Jonathan Coe and Sara Collins on their Costa-winning novels – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	38:36
Jeanine Cummins on her explosive new novel, American Dirt	The Guardian Books podcast	39:47
Samantha Harvey on her year without sleep – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	37:32
Eoin Colfer on returning to Artemis Fowl – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	32:09
Our favourite books of 2019, and the most exciting books of 2020 – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	36:50
Ben Lerner and Meena Kandasamy on autofiction – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	37:01
Escaping Westboro Baptist Church: Megan Phelps-Roper's journey – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	40:16
When imagining our future, what can sci-fi teach us? – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	38:38
Elizabeth Strout on the return of Olive Kitteridge – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	26:59
How true does travel writing need to be? With Rory MacLean and Luke Harding – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	41:11
'The past is amongst us. Taking notes': nature writing with Kathleen Jamie and Laurie Lee – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	29:34
'Mexico's drug problem is America's': crime legend Don Winslow – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	34:42
One language dies every two weeks. How can poetry help? – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	38:32
The history of the book, from Gilgamesh to now – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	38:07
The legacy of the Windrush scandal, plus the 2019 Booker prize winners - books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	43:52
'I want world domination!' Lucy Ellmann on her Booker behemoth Ducks, Newburyport – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	35:19
Ann Patchett on her latest novel and facing down Amazon – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	35:05
Is freedom of speech a 'toxic myth'? Plus the top 100 books since 2000 – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	38:22
From Blair to Cameron: what makes a good political memoir? – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	35:53
'I felt a huge grief': the challenges of writing about trauma – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	48:42
Salman Rushdie on retelling Don Quixote in Quichotte – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	41:28
Elif Shafak on Turkey's treatment of novelists – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	46:38
Does 'the English canon' still shape what we read? – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	32:10
My friend, the fake German heiress: a true crime special – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	32:41
How we can learn to stop worrying and love language – books podcast	The Guardian Books podcast	35:54

Weekend: episode two of a new podcast

The Guardian Books podcast

49:39

Weekend: episode one of a new podcast

The Guardian Books podcast

48:45

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent: episode one of a new podcast

The Guardian Books podcast

39:46

'Our climate crisis is a choice': Christiana Figueres on why we can change the future - books podcast

The Guardian Books podcast

42:59