
Book Slam Podcast 73 (with Shami Chakrabarti, Chimène Suleyman, Jagaara and Laura Bates)
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This podcast is from the Book Slam literary club night in London and features live readings, performances and interviews from the event. Check www.bookslam.com for more details.

The 73rd and, by all accounts, final Book Slam Podcast finds sisters doing it for themselves and the rest of us too. It features poetry from...

The 72nd Book Slam Podcast features the poetic talents of SOPHIA THAKUR , the comedic intellect of SIMON RICH , discussing his latest collec...

Book Slam hits new heights with some prime pugilism of the literary variety. BILL HILLMAN (prize-fighter, gang-banger, bull runner) reads fr...

Book Slam, London's favourite live literary juke joint, reaches three score podcasts and ten. It's all downhill from here. Nonetheless, we r...

The 69th Book Slam podcast is short, but serious - the perfect accompaniment, for example, for an earnest morning journey from Vauxhall to O...

Book Slam's 68th podcast rushes along like a train in the company of NED BEAUMAN discussing his new novel ' Glow ', and EMMA JANE UNSWORTH i...

The 67th Book Slam podcast is brought to you directly (and literally) from the studio floor. Guests include our founder, BEN WATT , of Every...

Book Slam's 66th Podcast marks something of a return to form with lots of clever people reading clever stuff in a clever, but nonetheless en...

The 65th Book Slam Podcast is chock full of fascinating content undermined by some rather low rent banter and lousy production. Sorry. Guest...

The 64th podcast from Book Slam, London's best night of word and music, is an unusually entertaining one. It features Patrick's hero and sat...

The 63rd Book Slam Podcast is noted in society for its hosts' exquisite good taste and pop cultural references from the 1990s (Teddy Riley a...

The 62nd Book Slam Podcast is fuller than a family bucket and arguably more sustaining. It features DBC Pierre , reading from and discussing...

Book Slam's 61st podcast is a transcontinental miracle of modern technology, which visits Lausanne, the 1960s and a festival Wilderness all...

The 60th Book Slam podcast has a sensibility both African and diasporic, featuring artists from our collaboration with the London African Mu...

Book Slam's 59th podcast takes a trip down memory lane in the company of comedian and writer Viv Groskop , with whom Patrick once worked on...

The 58th Book Slam Podcast finds Elliott abandoned and alone. He appears unfazed. He introduces spoken word from the quite brilliant TALIA R...

Book Slam's 57th Podcast is, frankly, one of our better ones. It features a brilliant reading from his novel ' Coconut Unlimited ' by our ol...

The 56th Book Slam Podcast includes MATT HAIG expressing an alien view of ' The Humans ', ROSS SUTHERLAND dedicating a poem to someone very...

Book Slam 's 55th Podcast features talk of 'cankles', the oxymoronic nature of self-help, and esoteric idiom. HADLEY FREEMAN reads from ' Be...

The 54th Book Slam Podcast is a brief madness, but no less angry for that. NIALL GRIFFITHS reads from his latest novel, ' A Great Big Shinin...

Book Slam's 53rd podcast sees us put the 'anti' into 'Valantine's day' (sic) as Dan Rhodes launches his excellent collection of short storie...

The 52nd Book Slam podcast concludes the most overblown spell of coalitionary self-congratulation since Dave and Nick first tickled each oth...

Book Slam's 51st podcast sees something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue to celebrate the launch of ' Too Much Too...

Book Slam celebrates a number of birthdays - the podcast is 50, Scarlet Horley is three weeks and Patrick is precisely twice the age he thin...

Much of the 49th Book Slam podcast may or may not have been recorded in a storm drain. But, never mind the quality, feel the width as we hea...

The 48th Book Slam podcast is not just an attempt to board the Olympic bandwagon. Oh no. It includes comedian, novelist and medallist of cha...

The 47th Book Slam podcast finds Elliott Jack and Salena Godden reading woodenly from what may be loosely described as a 'script'. They soon...

The 46th Book Slam podcast is a bijou affair, which finds James Sallis , exponent of classic existential noir, reading from his stunning new...

The 45th Book Slam podcast has a decidedly Celtic fringe as we reflect on the launch of Irvine Welsh 's coruscating prequel to ' Trainspotti...

At 44, the Book Slam podcast finally faces up to the realities of middle-age with poet and one time army major Martin Figura , before celebr...

Book Slam's 43rd podcast chops the dead wood, sets it ablaze and then burns an effigy of it, on it, so to speak ... Suffice to say, Elliott...

The 42nd Book Slam podcast bids farewell to the legend that is Gil Scott-Heron and celebrates the publication of his posthumous memoir, ' Th...

The 41st Book Slam podcast is a shambolic affair brought to you live from the launch of ' One For The Trouble '. Patrick and Elliott are to...

The rip-roaring 40th Book Slam podcast is jam-packed with all kinds of good stuff, including music from the remarkable Izzi Dunn , Craig Tay...

The 39th Book Slam podcast features Sapphire , of ' Precious ' fame, discussing and reading from her new novel, ' The Kid '; our favourite m...

Book Slam 's 38th podcast features handsome, talented and successful authors Hari Kunzru (pictured) and Joe Dunthorne discuss their spanking...

The 37th Book Slam podcast sees super-cool journalists, Grace Dent (pictured) and Caitlin Moran , go head to head with their not-self-help-s...

The 36th edition of the Book Slam podcast features the heroic Jon Ronson (pictured trying to escape) reading from his new book, 'The Psychop...

Episode 35 of the Book Slam podcast includes Mohsin Hamid (pictured), author of the Booker-shortlisted ' The Reluctant Fundamentalist ', dis...

The 34th Book Slam podcast is a bumper edition, with Man Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri discussing ' A Time For New Dreams ', Simon Armitage p...

The 33rd Book Slam podcast features 'multi award-winning author' Andrea Levy discussing her exceptional new novel, ' The Long Song ', and Da...

The 32nd Book Slam podcast buys into postmodern identity crises in the company of Man Booker Prize-winner, Howard Jacobson , author of the d...

The Book Slam podcast bids goodbye to the year that was, with prose from Rupert Thomson (reading from his extraordinary memoir, ' This Party...

The 30th Book Slam podcast features the inimitable Salena Godden (pictured) doing an excellent impression of herself, DBC Pierre discussing...

This month, we thought we'd give you a little bonus for being so good. This is Joe Dunthorne , author of the acclaimed ' Submarine ', readin...

The 29th Book Slam podcast is a veritable jamboree, featuring some of contemporary literature's biggest names; including Will Self reading f...

The 28th Book Slam podcast includes an interview with Diana Evans talking about her new novel, ' The Wonder ', poetry from Ross Sutherland a...

Book Slam 's 27th podcast hums and, indeed, dings to the company of David Eagleman , author of ' Sum ' and founder of possibilianism. There'...

The 26th Book Slam podcast finds Dan Rhodes being very funny as the reads from his latest mini-classic, ' Little Hands Clapping ', and Marlo...

Book Slam 's 25th podcast finds Jonathan Safran Foer discussing a dog for dinner, Paul Murray reading from his brilliant novel, ' Skippy Die...