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Tim Bouverie: Allies at War
17th April 2025
Bouverie's first book, Appeasing Hitler, was a tremendous success. His second - a history of the alliance that won the war - is once again fascinating and beautifully written. He spoke to Johnny about the destruction of the French fleet by the British (they had been allies ...Chloe Dalton: Raising Hare
15th January 2025
Dalton, who has worked for over a decade as a parliamentary and Foreign Office policy advisor and speech-writer, found herself raising a leveret in lockdown. Her approach was to intervene as little as possible and allow the animal to remain wild – yet it still comes to ...Lucy Hughes-Hallett: The Scapegoat
20th November 2024
The scapegoat in question is the Duke of Buckingham: favourite and lover of James I and beloved friend of his son; husband, father, art collector, tireless statesman… The cost of his pearl-spilling outfit when he went to meet Henrietta Maria would have paid the ...Mother State: Helen Charman in Conversation with Kate Briggs
20th November 2024
We were delighted that Helen Charman, a Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, whose writing has been published in The Guardian, The White Review, Another Gaze and ...William Dalrymple: The Golden Road
10th September 2024
Five years – almost to the day – since the first episode of the Sandoe's podcast, we welcome back the very first author to have graced our airwaves: William Dalrymple. In September 2019 he came to discuss The Anarchy; he returns, on our 80th episode, for The Golden ...Rupert Thomson: How to Make a Bomb
23rd August 2024
Rupert Thomson has attracted the kind of critical acclaim which would flatter any rockstar, let alone writer. David Bowie chose The Insult as one of his 100 favourite novels of all time; he’s been compared to Dickens, Kafka and Grace Jones; his first novel, Dreams of Leaving ...Giles Milton: The Stalin Affair
15th July 2024
Acclaimed historian Giles Milton (Checkmate in Berlin, Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, Paradise Lost) talks to Johnny about his new book on the US and Britain’s diplomatic mission to brace Stalin against the Germans and bring him into WW2 as an ally. The story is remarkable ...Es Devlin on the Art of Set Design
29th April 2024
Winner of three Olivier awards, Es Devlin’s work ranges from small theatres to vast stadiums, from Adele to Don Giovanni and Sir John Soane. The list of her projects and collaborators is breath-taking. Her name will be familiar to some; many will have seen ...Roland Philipps on Roger Casement
12th April 2024
Casement was one of the first to expose the horrors of the Belgian Congo. Five years later he was knighted; five years after that, in 1916, he would be executed for conspiring with the Germans to provide arms for the Easter Rising. His fraught life — as a humanitarian, a ...
