John Sandoe Books Podcast
1) Eileen Atkins: Will She Do?
Dame Eileen is joined by the novelist Salley Vickers to talk about Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage. It is a marvellous memoir, beginning with her youth in Tottenham and ending when her theatr...Show More
2) Jonas Hassen Khemiri: The Sisters
We are delighted to bring you a new episode of our podcast: a conversation with Jonas Hassen Khemiri. He is a Swedish novelist and playwright, a teacher on the creative writing course at NYU and a fin...Show More
3) Horatio Clare: We Came By Sea
Horatio is an outstanding writer of literary non-fiction. He’s written before about life on a container ship and on an icebreaker, three memoirs, two important books on acute mental crisis, a glorious...Show More
4) Tim Bouverie: Allies at War
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...Show More
5) Chloe Dalton: Raising Hare
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...Show More
6) Lucy Hughes-Hallett: The Scapegoat
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 ou...Show More
7) Mother State: Helen Charman in Conversation with Kate Briggs
'motherhood is frequently politicised, but rarely acknowledged in all its fullness to be political' We were delighted that Helen Charman, a Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, whose writing has been p...Show More
8) William Dalrymple: The Golden Road
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 dis...Show More
9) Rupert Thomson: How to Make a Bomb (A Novel)
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 com...Show More
10) Giles Milton: The Stalin Affair
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 Germ...Show More