Audio Podcast

Shahriar Mandanipour’s novel from exile, Censoring an Iranian Love Story, is the back-story of the shockingly brave green-banded ...

Ronald Prinn is talking about what was arguably the biggest little news story on earth so far this year. Click to listen to Chris’s ...

There is no rescuing this economy from our debt, denial and epic implosions like General Motors and the city of Detroit. The only hope is ...

Maybe Newt Gingrich is right — that Americans are getting used to something like European Socialism in this Bush-to-Obama bankruptcy ...

I make two guesses here: that Barack Obama knows almost as little about cricket as I do (which is: zero); and further (much more ...

Baskin’s Thoreau: nickel first-class (1967) Is it too late to celebrate Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) with an honest, unblushing ...

Sir Ken Robinson does most of the talking, over breakfast here, on the sketchy matter of “creativity” and the teaching of it. ...

Jamaican wisdom: “When a black man becomes President of the USA, pigs will fly. And then what happened? Swine flu.” In Philip ...

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Marlon James. (50 , 23 mb mp3) Poets and writers come to the Calabash literary festival ...

Calabash, the Caribbean literary festival, is an outdoor church of the written word, rocking and resonating on the south coast of Jamaica ...

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Aleksandar Hemon (25 , 11 mb mp3) Aleksandar Hemon: funny people, sad tales What the ...

Colm Toibin at the James family graves: “hallowed ground” of novels, diaries, sacrifice. “It’s very ...