The Author Archive Podcast
1) Andrew Lownie - Entitled
Andrew Lownie has spent four years researching the lives of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, the Duke and Duchess of York. The book is full of dramatic details of lives spent sailing very close to th...Show More
2) Robert Winder - Three Rivers
This book is as exploration of the rich and varied cultural worlds shaped by the Rhine, the Rhone and the Po. Three Rivers traces the rivers' journeys from their glacial sources through Germany, Itals...Show More
3) Julian Hoffman- Lifelines
Twenty five years ago Julian Hoffman and his wife Julia decided to leave their life in London and make a dramatic change. They would leave the city life with it's commuting hassles and move somewhere ...Show More
4) Joseph Connolly : All Shook Up - A Flash of the Fifties
This conversation looks back at the post war time when all the world aspired to be young and America. America was really perceived to be great back then. How times change ........ Joseph Connolly pai...Show More
5) Ashley Kahn - A Love Supreme : The Creation of John Coltrane's Classic Album
After Ashley Kahn had published his book on the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue he turned his attention to the timeless John Coltrane record A Love Supreme. Not only is this still a highly regarded jaz...Show More
6) Stuart Nicholson : A Portrait of Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington is famous, but what was he really like. In this biography published in 2000, Stuart Nicholson writes about the man who was a brilliant instinctive and sophisticated musician. Was he ...Show More
7) Alison Latham : The Oxford Companion to Music
The Oxford Companion to Music is probably the most famous music reference book of them all. The latest edition was first published in 2002. It has over 120 contributors and covers covers the whole uni...Show More
8) Dennis McNally - A Long Strange Trip : The Inside Story of the Grateful Dead
As the news from America becomes more and more worrying it's good to look back to the last century when everything was different and some American rock musicians brought joy to the world. Peace and L...Show More
9) Ashley Kahn : Kind of Blue - The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
Kind of Blue is the most successful jazz LP ever made. It was recorded over two sessions in New York in 1959 and is still revered as a masterpiece. Ashley Kahn told David Freeman the story behind a hi...Show More
10) Wells Jones : A Line in the Sand
A Line in the Sand is a novel about two friends on an adventure in the Middle East based on an actual journey two real life friends took to Saudi Arabia and Damascus in 2006. One of the inspirations ...Show More