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Podularity is a regular on-line books programme that features interviews with writers in a wide variety of genres. Join host, George Miller, in conversation with novelists, poets and authors of non-fiction. Think of it as an on-going literary festival on-line.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 46
- Years Active
- 2007 - 2011
46. Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us about Humanity
“Elephants are not treated much differently now than they were in the mid-eighteenth century: they are objects of awe and conservation, yet legally hunted, made captive, abused, and forced to labor f…
00:19:40 |
Mon 17 Jan 2011
45. Bloody borderlands
Amexica is the name journalist Ed Vulliamy has coined for the 2,000-mile-long borderland between the US and Mexico. It’s a land that has fascinated him for the past thirty years – “repelled and compe…
00:40:34 |
Fri 19 Nov 2010
44. Dancing on the heads of snakes
“Dancing on the heads of snakes” is how President Ali Abdullah Salih of Yemen describes the near impossibility of governing his country. He should know; he’s managed to cling on to power by keeping u…
00:24:08 |
Sun 11 Apr 2010
43. In praise of Germany
In this week’s podcast, I talk to Simon Winder about the challenges of making a book on German history entertaining. It’s a challenge he rose to magnificently in his quirky new book, Germania: A Pers…
00:15:41 |
Sat 27 Mar 2010
42. The Return of Captain John Emmett
To record this week’s podcast, I travelled to the Cotswolds to visit my guest (and friend), Elizabeth Speller. Elizabeth has recently bought a splendid shepherd’s hut on wheels which she is using as …
00:23:12 |
Mon 22 Mar 2010
41. It’s only a movie (and a book)
Last Monday I met film critic Mark Kermode at the Watershed in Bristol before his event there which formed part of his countrywide tour to present his new book, It’s Only a Movie. He was remarkably b…
00:00:01 |
Mon 01 Mar 2010
40. Charles Dickens – a writer’s life
We mark the birthday of Charles Dickens earlier this week with a special extended edition of my interview with his biographer Michael Slater from the end of last year, which originally appeared on Bl…
00:36:36 |
Fri 12 Feb 2010
39. On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our Worst Fears
I first became aware of Stephen Asma‘s book on the fine Washington Post Book World podcast (which sadly is no more). The Post also chose the book as one of its top non-fiction titles of the year for …
00:19:47 |
Wed 13 Jan 2010
38. Poland – a country in the moon
My guest on this week’s programme is Michael Moran, author of A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland.
Michael first visited Poland in the early 1990s after the collapse of Co…
00:21:07 |
Sun 10 Jan 2010
37. Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall
I’m delighted to say that the first Podularity podcast of 2010 is devoted to an in-depth interview with 2009 Booker prize winner, Hilary Mantel in which she talks about her remarkable novel, Wolf Hal…
00:55:47 |
Wed 06 Jan 2010
36. Berlin – city of “eternal becoming”
This week’s podcast features an interview with Heather Reyes, co-founder of Oxygen Books, and co-editor of the latest addition to their City-Lit series, which appropriately enough in the week which m…
00:15:42 |
Tue 10 Nov 2009
35. A Don’s Life
This week marks the second anniversary of Podularity, so I’m delighted to be welcoming back an old friend of the programme, Cambridge professor of classics, Mary Beard.
Mary appeared in programme 15 …
00:32:18 |
Sat 31 Oct 2009
34. After we’ve gone
What would a race of space-travelling aliens 100 million years in the future make of the Earth?
“One can imagine that they’ll be sufficiently scientifically curious to look on the world as extraordi…
00:19:07 |
Fri 23 Oct 2009
33. Through the Georgian keyhole
Amanda Vickery on the impression of Georgian life given by National Trust properties today:
“They’re absolutely empty of life. They’re neat and tidy and they don’t smell and there’s no noise of the …
00:32:10 |
Fri 16 Oct 2009
32. What made Greeks laugh?
“I’m trying to use laughter as a kind of prism, I suppose, through which to examine certain features of the broader culture…
“Greeks talk a lot about laughter and so there are a lot of perceptions an…
00:27:41 |
Mon 12 Oct 2009
31. The Making of Mr Gray’s Anatomy
“What’s so wonderful about Carter’s illustrations [for Gray’s Anatomy] is that they are not abject people, they are not shown as lumps of meat, they’re not shown as undignified, they’re not shown in …
00:17:59 |
Sat 03 Oct 2009
30. Hun’s eye view
“The Huns are a blank canvas. That’s what makes them so interesting. We know only one word of Hunnic, the word strava, the Hunnic word for funeral. We have no Hunnic poetry, we have no Hunnic literat…
00:20:21 |
Fri 04 Sep 2009
29. A walk across the universe
“Why is there something rather than nothing?” asked the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz several centuries ago. It’s one of the main questions animating Christopher Potter‘s first book, You Are …
00:20:38 |
Sun 16 Aug 2009
28. The Life of a Roman Town
How easy is it to get an insight into the life of the ancient Romans from a visit to the remains of Pompeii today? How much of what we see is even Roman, and how much is recent reconstruction?
What d…
00:31:10 |
Fri 17 Jul 2009
27. Alice on the Indus
On Monday night Alice Albinia won the Dolman Travel Book Prize for her book, Empires of the Indus, in which she traces her remarkable journey from the river delta near Karachi to its source in Tibet.…
00:00:01 |
Tue 07 Jul 2009
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