Episodes
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Simon Heffer, distinguished historian and editor of the diaries (the first volume of which is published today), is joined by Tim Bouverie.
Edited by Magnus Rena
Music: Jack Hylton & His Orchestra, Why Can't You
Friday Feb 19, 2021
A Cuckoo Press Publication: Gaia Servadio's A Wartime Childhood
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Friday Feb 19, 2021
A short, powerful memoir of a Jewish family’s flight from the Gestapo in Italy, 1943. Read by Arabella von Friesen.
Edited by Magnus Rena
Music: Ernesto Bonino, Strolling About
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Juliet Nicolson: Frostquake
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
... The Frozen Winter of 1962 and How Britain Emerged a Different Country... with moving parallels to our current situation. You can order a copy through a website here.
Edited by Magnus Rena
Music: Helen Shapiro, Walkin' Back to Happiness.
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wodehouse Wednesdays: Jeeves and the Leap of Faith 2
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Episode two of Ben Schott's spiffing homage.
Read by John de Falbe, edited by Magnus Rena
Music: Cab Calloway, Minnie the Moocher
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
Selina Hastings: Sybille Bedford
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
The first biography of this much loved author, bonne vivante, European, and John Sandoe customer, mentored by Aldous Huxley. Hastings’ earlier biographical subjects include Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford and Rosamond Lehmann.
Edited by Magnus Rena
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Horn Concerto No. 3 in E Flat major
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Wodehouse Wednesdays: Jeeves and the Leap of Faith
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Another lockdown, another double-bill of Wodehouse Wednesdays - but not quite as you know it. John de Falbe reads from Ben Schott's latest homage to Plum: Jeeves and the Leap of Faith.
Edited by Magnus Rena
Music: Cab Calloway, Minnie the Moocher
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Hermione Lee: Tom Stoppard
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Johnny interviews Sir Tom, while Dame Hermione - a leading literary biographer - gives a short introduction to her new book.
Edited by Magnus Rena
Music: William Bolcom, Graceful Ghost Rag
Monday Oct 05, 2020
William Boyd: Trio
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Brighton, 1968: a film producer, a novelist and an actress find their private lives encroaching into their public worlds. Pressures build on the trio… Click here to order a copy of Will Boyd's latest novel
Edited by Magnus Rena
Music: Cream, Badges
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Martin Latham: The Bookseller's Tale
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Do you write in the margins? Have you lied about reading War and Peace? Which books are your 'comfort reads'?
Martin Latham muses with Johnny on a life spent around books.
Edited by Magnus Rena
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Judith Herrin: Ravenna
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Johnny chats to the illustrious academic about her dazzling new book, Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe.
Edited by Magnus Rena