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Christian Wolmar on Blood, Iron and Gold

George Miller talks to Christian Wolmar about his latest book, which documents the drastic transformative effect that the railways had on the world around us.

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Amanda Vickery on house and home in Georgian England

In this brilliant new work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. George Miller talked to her about it.

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An interview with Mary Beard

George Miller talks to Cambridge Classics Professor Mary Beard about the book of her blog, It’s a Don’s Life.

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George Miller talks to Julian Baggini – can you judge a book by its cover?

Julian Baggini talks about his latest book, Should You Judge This Book by Its Cover?: 100 Fresh Takes on Familiar Sayings and Quotations.

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George Miller talks to David Kynaston

George Miller talks to David Kynaston about the second volume in his ‘Tales of a New Jerusalem’ series, Family Britain.

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Ian Mortimer on 1415: Henry V’s Year of Glory

George Miller talks to Ian Mortimer about the pivotal year of Henry V’s reign, and finds out what one of our most famous kings was really like.

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An interview with Nicola Upson

George Miller talks to Nicola Upson about her second book, which features the Cornish landscape and its people, the very real ‘golden age’ crime writer Josephine Tey, and the theatre world of 1930s Britain

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Sam Taylor talks about The Island at the End of the World

George Miller talks to Sam Taylor about his post-apocalyptic vision, The Island at the End of the World, and the three very different narrators that it features.

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David Peace on Occupied City

George Miller talks to David Peace about the background to and writing of his latest novel, the second in his Tokyo Trilogy, Occupied City, and we have clips of David Peace reading from the novel too.

Andy Beckett on the 1970s

Andy Beckett’s new book When the Lights Went Out takes a fresh look at the 1970s, a much-maligned decade. Was it really so bad? The author, who writes for the Guardian, reveals more in conversation with George Miller.

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Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Oxford University talks about Charles Dickens’ life at the time he started writing his classic Great Expectations, and the reason he started writing the book.

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Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle

James A. Secord talks about the purpose of the famous voyage of the Beagle, on which the young Charles Darwin was exposed to many of the sights and experiences which led him to formulate his ground-breaking theories.

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Steven Asma’s monster gallery

George Miller talks to Stephen Asma about On Monsters, his wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters, and we have an exclusive gallery of illustrations from the book too.

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The early years of Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) came from an unlikely background for a future literary celebrity. Unlike most of his fellow writers, he wasn’t from an aristocratic family but a conservative, merchant one. Rosamund Bartlett, who edited and translated the stories in the collection About Love, introduces Chekhov

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Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Josephine McDonagh, who has written a new introduction to the Oxford World’s Classics edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, introduces the novel, and talks about Anne’s life and the imaginative world she and her siblings – Emily, Charlotte, and Branwell – inhabited

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Lisa Hilton on the Queens of England

George Miller talks to Lisa Hilton about her history of English queens and the role they have played in shaping the nature of the English monarchy.

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Christopher Potter is here with insights in to the Universe

George Miller talks to Christopher Potter about You are Here: A Portable History of the Universe, a dazzling exploration of the universe and our relationship to it, as seen through the lens of today’s most cutting-edge scientific thinking.

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Hilary Mantel talks about Wolf Hall and winning the Booker

George Miller talks to Hilary Mantel, winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009 with her historical epic, Wolf Hall.

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Graham Farmelo on The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius

Graham Farmelo talks about The Strangest Man, his biography of Paul Dirac, the greatest British physicist since Newton – and one of the strangest geniuses of the 20th century, who may have suffered from autism.

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Jane Austen and making an impression

In the classic Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen invites her readers to form judgments of her characters as they read the book – and then to revise them as the story unfolds. Fiona Stafford explains why this may in part account for the book’s enduring appeal.

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Dan Cruickshank on the seamier side of Georgian London

Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank talks to George Miller about his history of the sex industry in Georgian London and its influence on all aspects of the city’s life.

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