May 28, 2020
This week, four award-winning war correspondents - Christina Lamb (I Am Malala and chief foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times), Lara Marlowe (The Things I Have Seen and correspondent with The Irish Times) and Lindsey Hilsum (In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin and International...
May 21, 2020
Writer and activist Sinead Burke discuss the importance of how our individual rights should inform fashion design, and how plenty of other life choices also need a rethink, with Sinead Gleeson
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May 14, 2020
Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes and Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon chew the cud on the 'the good things in life'. It was Sunday Morning, June 2019, and it felt like the right time to discuss how to avoid poisoning one's friends in the kitchen, the reverential love of music by writers, rare herbs that grow in...
May 9, 2020
DALRYMPLE'S INDIA: William Dalrymple has been for some years the most eloquent chronicler of Indian history. This talk draws from his recent book The Anarchy: The Fall of the Mughal Empire and the Rise of the East India Company, a gripping parable of gore and deceit, of unimaginable opulence and intolerable starvation,...
May 6, 2020
In one of the most exceptional meetings of the 2019, conflict reporter Ed Vulliamy meets Hothouse Flower guitarist and broadcaster Fiachna Ó Braonáin. Vulliamy's book When Words Fail explores the music that he turns to - Hendrix, Shostakovich, Patti Smith, BB King, Dylan, Planxty, among others - when the war zones or...