Book Slam Podcast 73 (with Shami Chakrabarti, Chimène Suleyman, Jagaara and Laura Bates)
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...
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Book Slam Podcast
This podcast is from the Book Slam literary club night in London and features live readings, performances and interviews from the event. Check for more details.
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Book Slam Podcast 72 (including Simon Rich, Mark Watson and Sophia Thakur)
The 72nd Book Slam Podcast features the poetic talents of SOPHIA THAKUR , the comedic intellect of SIMON RICH , discussing his latest collec...
Book Slam Podcast 71 (with Bill Hillman, Kate Tempest and Viv Albertine)
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 Podcast 70 (with Laura Lippman, Jess Green and Fiona Bevan)
Book Slam, London's favourite live literary juke joint, reaches three score podcasts and ten. It's all downhill from here. Nonetheless, we r...
Book Slam Podcast 69 (with Kamila Shamsie, Nikesh Shukla and Laura J Martin)
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 Podcast 68 (with Elvis McGonagall, Ned Beauman, Emma Jane Unsworth and Benin City)
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...
Book Slam Podcast 67 (with Ben Watt, Francesca Beard, Anoushka Lukas and Will Burns)ake Isaac, Sheila Heti and Nikesh Shukla)
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 Podcast 66 (with Gary Shteyngart, Jake Isaac, Sheila Heti and Nikesh Shukla)
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...
Book Slam Podcast 65 (with Laura Groves, Jonathan Lethem and Dominic Frisby)
The 65th Book Slam Podcast is chock full of fascinating content undermined by some rather low rent banter and lousy production. Sorry. Guest...
Book Slam Podcast 64 (with Andy Zaltzman, Sivu and Chuck Palahniuk)
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...
Book Slam Podcast 63 (with Bernardine Evaristo, Dean Atta and Ayanna Witter-Johnson)
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...
Book Slam Podcast 62 (with DBC Pierre, Matt Okine, Thabo and the Real Deal and Salena Godden)
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 Podcast 61 (with William Boyd, Emylia Hall, Lewis Floyd Henry and more)
Book Slam's 61st podcast is a transcontinental miracle of modern technology, which visits Lausanne, the 1960s and a festival Wilderness all...
Book Slam Podcast 60 (with Roger Robinson, Noo Saro-Wiwa and Belinda Zhawi)
The 60th Book Slam podcast has a sensibility both African and diasporic, featuring artists from our collaboration with the London African Mu...
Book Slam Podcast 59 (with Simon Rich, Viv Groskop and Ana Silvera)
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...
Book Slam Podcast 58 (with Matt Rudd, Cerys Matthews and Talia Randall)
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 Podcast 57 (with Nikesh Shukla, Will Self, Sara Pascoe and George Ezra)
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...
Book Slam Podcast 56 (with Caitlin Moran, Matt Haig, Ross Sutherland and Soak)
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 Podcast 55 (with Mohsin Hamid, Nadine Shah, Hadley Freeman and Patrick Ness)
Book Slam 's 55th Podcast features talk of 'cankles', the oxymoronic nature of self-help, and esoteric idiom. HADLEY FREEMAN reads from ' Be...
Book Slam Podcast 54 (with Niall Griffiths, Olivia Chaney and Sara Pascoe)
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...