Podcasts about biography books

Weekend is taking a little break. So this week, we've picked some of our favourite pieces from the last few months, just in case you missed them… Two stories about secrets, lies, and what happens when the people we trust turn out to have hidden motives: first, Joe Gibson reveals a troubling affair he had with his teacher that changed his life (1m48s); and comedian Michelle Brasier explains why she befriended her scammer (41m46s)

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Books and Bites Podcast, Ep. 64JCPL librarians bring you book recommendations and discuss the bites and beverages to pair with them.On this episode, we discuss the fourth prompt in the Books and Bites 2022 Reading Challenge, a biography or autobiography. You may be surprised to find biographies and autobiographies come in varied formats and styles to match any reader's tastes.Book Notes Adam recommends autobiographical Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon and Mu by horror master Junji Ito. Michael recommends You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe, which takes an honest and sometimes humorous look at the life of George Washington. Carrie recommends genre-bending A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa. This book pieces together the buried history of eighteenth-century Irish poet Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill. Bite Notes Indulge Juji Ito's love for the… Lovecraftian with an Earl Grey Bourbon Pomegranate Punch, aptly titled Under the Scarlet Sea. This dark scarlet drink mixes fruity flavors, the bitterness of tea and bourbon, and some intrigue through club soda and black tapioca pearls. Find the recipe at feastinthyme.com Start your morning off like George Washington with a plate of hoecakes swimming in melted butter and honey. The recipe can be found in Alexis Coe's You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington. Colcannon, a traditional Irish comfort dish, is the perfect accompaniment to A Ghost in the Throat. Find the recipe in Real Irish Food by David Bowers.

When Hadley Freeman found an old shoebox full of pictures and documents in the back of a wardrobe, it began a quest to find the real story of her family’s history and her grandmother’s escape to America from the Nazis. Plus: Annette McGivney on the problem with almond milk. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Sarah Krasnostein talks about her biography The Trauma Cleaner and we remember children’s author Judith Kerr. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/bookspod

On this week’s show, Andrea Wulf shares her new graphic novel biography of Alexander von Humboldt and professional forager John Wright takes us on a hunt for wild food in London. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/bookspod

On this week’s show, we speak to Heida Ásgeirsdóttir about her life as a farmer, and to Irish writer Sinéad Gleeson about her collection Constellations. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/bookspod

Historians Hallie Rubenhold and Lindsey Fitzharris discuss their books The Five and The Butchering Art. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/bookspod

We head back to 16th-century Constantinople with Énard, explore the troubled legacy of the second world war with Van Es and look ahead to the Costa book of the year

New Yorker cartoonist Krimstein discusses his pictorial life of Hannah Arendt and we head to the British Library with MacCulloch to learn about Thomas Cromwell

Paul Kildea explores how Frédéric Chopin wrote his Preludes and what became of them after his death, while Amy Sackville looks at power and PR through the lens of Diego Velázquez

David and Henrik talks about the band MURPHYS LAW and have a talk about the biographies of John Joseph, Harley Flanagan and Roger Miret and also review the artbook from ric Clayton. Matti is still on his Love trip to Indonesia.

What can history and myth tell us about the #MeToo moment? The books podcast tackles gender politics with a wrestler and a witch

The hard-won victories of trans people, with Christine Burns, plus the classics to read in LGBT history week

Comedian and writer Robert Webb, star of Peep Show, discusses modern masculinity and his own boyhood in his new book ‘How Not to Be a Boy’

On this week’s podcast, we talk to Ishmael Reed about his reissued classic novel Mumbo Jumbo and historian Jeff Sparrow about his biography of Paul Robeson

How life stories play out in memoir and fiction with the authors of family memoir I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This and YA award-winner Crongton Knights

We examine how the most personal writing can illuminate a wider world as Hisham Matar and Margo Jefferson turn to memoir

Maggie Nelson explains the nuances of tackling gender and sexuality in her genre-bending memoir The Argonauts, while Chris Kraus talks about her 1997 feminist text I Love Dick enjoying a second life in 2016

Comedian Sara Pascoe explores how our experience is shaped by our physical form in Animal, and we track down a New Jersey pioneer with Amy Stewart

To celebrate the publication of his autobiography The Outsider, Frederick Forsyth gives a rare public interview discussing his life as a bestselling novelist and Cold War spy

To celebrate the publication of his autobiography The Outsider, Frederick Forsyth gives a rare public interview discussing his life as a bestselling novelist and Cold War spy

This week we find ourselves out of doors on the windswept islands of Orkney with Amy Liptrot and among the traffic-clogged streets of London with Emily Chappell

To celebrate his autobiography But Enough About Me, veteran actor Burt Reynolds joins Hadley Freeman at a Guardian Live event to talk candidly about his career, Sinatra, Monroe and who would play him in the film of his life

We discuss how literature can be forged from sadness with two writers longlisted for the Guardian first book award

The Guardian's former editor, Alan Rusbridger, crosses swords over liberty, censorship and privacy with the doyen of the English criminal bar, Jeremy Hutchinson, at a Guardian Live event

We confront the most difficult subjects with the novelist Anuradha Roy and mortician Caitlin Doughty

John Crace digests Morrissey's Autobiography down to just 600 words, while Will Woodward and Caspar Llewellyn Smith wonder if the one-time Smiths frontman is as cool as he thinks he is

John Crace does obeisance before William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother

John Crace attempts to get over the Moon