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This week, Carrie Cracknell joins us to talk about the delights and challenges of directing Tom Stoppard's Arcadia; and Hirsh Sawhney on the empathetic brilliance of Sigrid Nunez.'Arcadia', by Tom Stoppard, Duke of York's Theatre, London, until September 12 2026'It Will Come Back ... Show More

This week, Scarlett Baron puzzles over an attempt to cut Joyce down to size; and Ian Sansom on the sobering realities of balancing the books if you want to be an artist.'A Shorter Ulysses', by James Joyce and Anthony Burgess'Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in funding a ... Show More

This week, Toby Lichtig joins us to mull over what TLS writers are reading this summer; and Hannah Lowe reads a new poem with a botanical theme.'Jamaican Forget-Me-Not', by Hannah LoweProduced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

Late Show Book Club chats with Samantha Harvey, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel, "Orbital," our June book club pick. Find out which book Harvey would take into space with her, the significance of the International Space Station being deorbited in 2030, and her advice for ... Show More

<p>Samantha Harvey’s novel “Orbital,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/arts/booker-prize-winner-orbital-samantha-harvey.html" target="_blank">which won the Booker Prize</a> last year, has a tight, poetic frame: We follow one day in the lives of six people working on a ... Show More

The Booker Prize is awarded each year to the best work of sustained fiction in the English language. In other words, it doesn’t get any more prestigious than the Booker. And we are honored this week to have Samantha Harvey who wrote the 2024 Booker winner entitled “Orbital”. When ... Show More

Liz Kelly launches into her thoughts on space travel. Hosts: Chris Ryan, Juliet Litman, Kate Halliwell, and Liz Kelly Associate Producer: Isaiah Blakely Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Author Honor Levy stops by the pod to talk about her debut short story collection, My First Book.