431 Episodes

  1. William Blake, Sea Monsters, and the Ecstasy of Art, with Philip Hoare

    Published: 5/7/2025

  2. Overnight: Dan Richards on Sleep, Service, and the Secrets of the Small Hours

    Published: 4/23/2025

  3. Bruise, Heal, Repeat: Anna Whitwham on On Boxing, Loss, and the Female Body

    Published: 4/16/2025

  4. Solvej Balle on Time, Wonder, and Writing the Impossible *International Booker Prize Shortlist*

    Published: 4/10/2025

  5. Nobel Prizewinner Abdulrazak Gurnah on Theft, Love, and the Power of Fiction

    Published: 3/27/2025

  6. BONUS: Jeremy Pelt on Preserving Jazz Through Storytelling

    Published: 3/19/2025

  7. Reimagining Moby-Dick, with Xiaolu Guo

    Published: 3/12/2025

  8. 2016: The Year That Broke Us - with poet and oral-historian Sarah Hesketh

    Published: 2/26/2025

  9. The Power of Voice – Sulaiman Addonia on The Seers

    Published: 2/11/2025

  10. Acts of Resistance: Amber Massie-Blomfield on the Power of Art to Shape a Better World

    Published: 1/30/2025

  11. Democracy at Risk: Salomé Saqué on Resisting the Far Right

    Published: 1/20/2025

  12. Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 2

    Published: 1/13/2025

  13. Claire-Louise Bennett returns to the Pond

    Published: 1/8/2025

  14. Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 1

    Published: 1/6/2025

  15. Yasmin Zaher on The Coin

    Published: 12/25/2024

  16. David Runciman: “The history of ideas is about letting people believe in things that they hadn't previously thought possible…”

    Published: 12/18/2024

  17. Dorian Lynskey on the Stories We Tell About the End of the World…

    Published: 12/11/2024

  18. Emmanuel Carrère on V13: “A unique experience of horror, pity, proximity and presence…”

    Published: 12/4/2024

  19. Denis Hirson: “They Called My Father A One-Man Revolution”

    Published: 11/20/2024

  20. BONUS: Lauren Elkin on Scaffolding (in conversation with Amanda Dennis)

    Published: 11/13/2024

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Discover your next favourite book, or take a deep dive into the mind of an author you love, with The Shakespeare and Company Interview podcast.Long-form interviews with internationally acclaimed authors, recorded from our bookshop in the heart of Paris. Hosted by S&Co Literary Director, Adam Biles.Discover all our upcoming events here.If you enjoy these conversations, you can order The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews here.Past guests include: Ottessa Moshfegh, Ian McEwan, Ali Smith, Har Kunzru, Rachel Kushner, Katie Kitamura, Elif Shafak, Claire-Louiose Bennett, Leïla Simoni, Ian Dunt, David Runciman, Richard Powers, Eimear McBride, Armando Iannucci, Lauren Grodd, Lauren Elkin, Recebcca Solnit, John Berger, Hollie McNish, Michael Pedersen, Rob Doyle, Philippe Sands, George Saunders, Edouard Louis, Rachel Cusk, Preti Taneja, Alejandro Zambra, DBC Pierre, Meg Mason, Sandra Newman, David Simon, Joshua Cohen, Geoff Dyer, David Wallce-Wells, Emul Saint-John Mandel, Mohsin Hamid, Tess Gunty, A.M. Homes, John Higgs, Miriam Toews, Kamila Shamsie, Annie Ernaux, William Boyd, David Keenan, Jonathan Coe, Coco Mellors, Tom Mustill, Jeanette Winterson, Sarah Churchwell, Katy Hessel, Don Paterson, Elizabeth McCracken, Meena Kandasamy, Aleksandar Hemon, Catherine Lacey, Xiaolu Guo, M. John Harrison, Dolly Adderton, Hernan Diaz, Kathryn Scanlan, Ben Lerner, Isabel Waidner, Nick Laird, Adam Thirlwell, Mark O'Connell, Marie Darrieussecq, Jo Ann Beard, C Pam Zhang, Naomi Klein...and many, many more. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.