Dec 2025

Bénédicte Dupré la Tour dans « les Rencontres » — CHANEL Les Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon

Écoutez la journaliste Lauren Bastide en conversation avec Bénédicte Dupré la Tour, autrice d’un premier roman, « Terres Promises » publié aux Éditions du Panseur en 2024. Avec pour décor la ruée vers l’or et la conquête de l’Ouest, ce roman choral suit huit personnages, huit des ... Show More

34m 45s

Oct 2025

Florence Knapp in “les Rencontres” — CHANEL Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon

Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Florence Knapp, writer of “The Names”, her debut novel published by Phoenix in 2025, and recently published in French by JC Lattès. In her novel, Florence Knapp tells the story of a family marked by domestic abuse and ... Show More

33m 57s

Sep 2025

Entretien avec Germaine Acogny dans les coulisses du Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Dans un documentaire sonore exclusif, Germaine Acogny, figure majeure de la danse contemporaine, raconte les coulisses de son spectacle au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées à Paris. Pour cette création imaginée en deux parties, la chorégraphe et danseuse interprète « Joséphine », un bal ... Show More

17m 50s

Feb 2024

All the World's a Stage

This week, a special interview with the sociologist Richard Sennett takes us from Roland Barthes to Leonard Bernstein; and Hettie Judah on two memoirs inspired by a love of 17th-century art.'The Performer: Art, Life, Politics', by Richard Sennett'Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and ... Show More

41m 21s

Sep 2023

Power Play

This week, we drop in on a conversation between Mary Beard and two former TLS editors; and Anne Enright joins us to talk about turning poet in her new novel.'Emperor of Rome: Ruling the ancient Roman world', by Mary Beard'Big Caesars and little Caesars: How they rise and how they ... Show More

1h 5m

Sep 2021

Sad and Twisted Stories

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Skye C. Cleary to discuss Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘lost’ novel, ‘The Inseparables’, published almost seventy years after it was written; Anna Picard reviews a very dark production of ‘Rigoletto’ at the Royal Opera House; plus, ... Show More

49m 7s

May 2019

S1 Ep1: Thinking Pink: What Feminism Means to Millennials

Fiction + Feminism. Take your seat in the audience next to Zing Tsjeng at this week's Baileys Book Bar. Hear bestselling author and Women’s Prize for Fiction Founder Director Kate Mosse speak to journalist and author of the bestselling Everything I Know About Love, Dolly Alderton ... Show More

57m 37s

Jul 2025

Review: RSC's The Constant Wife

Tom is joined by reviewers Kate Maltby and Stephanie Merritt to discuss Laura Wade's adaptation for the RSC of Somerset Maugham's comedy The Constant Wife. Also Wendy Erskine's Belfast -set novel; The Benefactors. A polyphonic telling of a teenage girl's assault and its aftermath ... Show More

42m 31s

Apr 2024

Antonia Markiet

Giuseppe Castellano talks to Antonia Markiet, retired Editorial Director for HarperCollins Children’s Books, about her early days as an editor at Harper & Row; what illustrators should do if they want to be great; why Maurice Sendak’s newest book, Ten Little Rabbits, was publishe ... Show More

1h 1m

May 2024

Better to Travel Hopefully

This week, Oxford Professor of Poetry AE Stallings explores the elliptical brilliance of Anne Carson; and an interview with writer, filmmaker and artist Miranda July about her forthcoming novel.'Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist', by Elizabeth Sarah Coles'Wrong Norma', by Anne Cars ... Show More

50m 56s

Harriet Constable in “les Rencontres” — ...