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Transcendence - Gaia Vince
Author of Adventures in the Anthropocene and the first woman to have been awarded the Royal Society’s prize for science writing Gaia Vince, discusses her new book.
Language Unlimited - David Adger
Paddy Butler catches-up with the ever engaging and brilliant linguist David Adger to discuss his much praised new book, Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most...
Magic - The Libreria Room
Curator Madeleine Dunnigan is joined by tarot card reader Shy Charles, poet Nisha Ramayya and performance artist Joseph Morgan Schofield to discuss magic in contempora...
Black Literary History: An African Perspective
Back in October we celebrated Black History Month at Libreria welcoming authors Inua Ellams, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and founder of Libreria Ghana, Sylvia Arthur. F...
Lisa Taddeo – Three Women and the feeling of Aloneness
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo is really making waves at present and, because of its subject matter, has opened up further important points of discussion about abusive rel...
New Nostalgias - Lucy Caldwell and Dana Czapnik
Author of Multitudes, Lucy Caldwell and Dana Czapnik (The Falconer) were at Libreria for our New Nostalgias event back in September and we made a live recording of the...
Carlo Rovelli - Einstein, Kant & Dante
For this extended episode we travelled to Marseille University to catch-up with physicist and author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Carlo Rovelli.
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
For this special edition filmmaker Posy Dixon and experimental musician Glenn Copeland discuss Copeland’s extraordinary creative philosophy. At 75, and on his first to...
The Outlaw Ocean
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ian Urbina cumulatively spent three years at sea documenting global injustices including trafficking, slavery and illegal fishing – t...
The Libreria Room : WATER
How does our relationship with water play out in literature and what does this tell us about ourselves? Madeleine Dunnigan is joined by Sophie Mackintosh (author of Th...
Doxology
Nell Zink, the incomparable author of Wallcreeper discusses generational discord and the effectiveness of punk as a form of protest.
Let Me Not Be Mad
Author of Let Me Not Be Mad, AK Benjamin, challenges our often narrow assumptions regarding mental health – and how institutions invariably fall short when dealing wit...
Queer Futures
Curator Madeleine Dunnigan talks to author of Queer Intentions, Amelia Abraham and the author of Good as You, Paul Flynn about the importance of queer spaces in shapin...
Paul Mason - Capitalism in the Dock
What does it mean to be human and how do we think about this in our digital age of turbo-charged capitalism? Paddy Butler speaks with the brilliantly forthright author...
Caspar Henderson - Interior Worlds & Cosmic Couriers
From the psychological trauma of Dostoevsky to the cosmologically monumental, Caspar Henderson discusses some of the wonders of the universe from his book, New Map of ...
Kevin Barry - Beatlebone Spirit and the Heaventree of Stars
The punchiest of prose stylists talks to Paddy Butler about influences and his 2019 Booker long listed novel, Night Boat to Tangier.
James Bridle - Prometheus and the craft paradox
Author and conceptual artist, James Bridle, joins Paddy Butler to discuss some of the luminous ideas from his book, New Dark Age.
Carolyn Forché & Laia Abril
Civil War & Women's Rights - Carolyn Forché & Laia Abril
Michael Pollan & Rose Cartwright
In this special episode author of Pure, Rose Cartwright, talks to Michael Pollan (How to Change Your Mind).
Bernardine Evaristo & Sharmaine Lovegrove
In this episode Paddy Butler welcomes author Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other) and publisher supremo Sharmaine Lovegrove - together they discuss major issues co...
Bret Easton Ellis
Paddy Butler talks to author of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis.
Roberto Calasso & Stanley Kubrick
Paddy Butler interviews legendary Italian author Roberto Calasso about Greek myths and the curator of the Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the Design Museum.
Sinéad Gleeson & Antonin Artaud
This time Paddy talks illness, empowerment and the creative process with Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations, and Martin McGeown, co-director of Cabinet Gallery.
Marcus du Sautoy & Allan Sekula
What is creativity, and what role do machines have in human expression? This week Paddy is joined by Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy on machine learning, as Lara cha...
Josh Cohen & Ottessa Moshfegh
Libreria's Paddy Butler is joined by authors Josh Cohen (Not Working) and Ottessa Moshfegh (My Year of Rest and Relaxation) to look at the inspiration behind their boo...