Personal Landscapes Podcast
1) October 2025: What Am I Reading?
Watch now | This month's reading recommendations and podcast updates for Club Members.
2) Peter Matthiessen with biographer Lance Richardson
Listen now | We spoke about Peter Matthiessen’s privileged background, his life-changing journey to Nepal, his serial womanizing, and his greatest books.
3) My Earliest Personal Landscape
I hope you’re enjoying my latest podcast conversations and book reviews.
4) Alex Hutchinson on what drives us to explore
Listen now | We spoke about the explore-exploit dilemma, memorizing a route versus mapping a landscape, and how to find the sweet spot between predictability and chaos in your own exploring life.
5) Foster Hirsch's Top Five
Start your Film Noir and Fifties journey here
6) September 2025: What Am I Reading?
Welcome to another instalment of What Am I Reading?
7) Foster Hirsch on film noir and 1950s Hollywood
Film noir is is my favourite silver screen genre.
8) Great Beginnings
My top ten opening lines from books about place
9) Peter Carpenter: Walking in the Footsteps of David Bowie
When his doctor told him to walk or die, Peter Carpenter transformed a health crisis into a feat of urban archaeology.
10) Justin Marozzi: Slavery in the Islamic World
Listen now | We spoke about courtesans and slave soldiers, the trans-Saharan slave trade, and how the Quran addressed slavery.