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Aimara Garlaschelli"Il falco pellegrino"J. A. Bakeril Saggiatorewww.ilsaggiatore.comNel cielo sopra la campagna dell'Essex, nell'Inghilterra orientale, oltre i rami di querce e olmi, in alcune stagioni dell'anno si possono osservare dei puntini scendere come frecce dalle nubi per poi risalire, disegnare eleganti cerchi, scomparire e riapparire: sono i falchi pellegrini, gli uccelli più magnifici della zona. A inizio anni sessanta, se si fosse abbassato lo sguardo, si sarebbe però potuto notare un'altra sagoma altrettanto riconoscibile: quella di un uomo sulla trentina – capelli biondi, occhiali dalle lenti spesse – che, steso a terra o in piedi, con un paio di binocoli al collo prendeva appunti furiosamente. Quell'uomo si chiamava J.A. Baker e lo studio di quei puntini nel cielo è stata l'ossessione e il capolavoro della sua vita. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1967, Il falco pellegrino è un classico contemporaneo, che unisce uno stile letterario di rara intensità alla meticolosità del naturalista. Baker ha annotato per anni tutto ciò che riusciva a vedere, a capire e a esaminare dei pellegrini in lunghe sessioni di birdwatching, immergendosi nelle loro vite come fossero la sua: mentre analizza con perizia le azioni quotidiane degli uccelli – la caccia, le prede e i momenti di riposo – la sua scrittura ci conduce in un viaggio fuori da noi stessi, dove la distanza tra soggetto e oggetto sembra annullarsi e l'osservazione del falco diventa una via per esplorare la complessità della natura, il confine sottile tra vita e morte, tra istinto e coscienza. Ma, sembra dirci Il falco pellegrino, più stretta si fa la sovrapposizione, più si rivela in realtà la distanza tra uomo e rapace, tra chi uccide per sopravvivere e chi per crudeltà o noncuranza. È in questa consapevolezza che ci fa sprofondare l'opera unica e a suo modo inimitabile di J.A. Baker: lo sguardo di chi osserva la bellezza del volo è lo stesso di chi può arrestarlo per sempre.Introduzione di Robert MacfarlaneTraduzione di Aimara GarlaschelliJ.A. Baker (Chelmsford, 1926-1987), originario dell'Essex, è stato uno scrittore e birdwatcher inglese. Il falco pellegrino, vincitore nel 1967 del Duff Cooper Prize, è considerato uno dei libri di letteratura naturalistica più belli di sempre.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

My guest on this episode is Margaret MacMillan. Margaret is a historian and author whose bestselling books include The War That Ended Peace; Nixon and Mao; Women of the Raj; and Paris 1919. She is emeritus professor of History at the University of Toronto, where she served as Provost of Trinity College, and an emeritus professor of International History at Oxford University, where she served as Warden of St Antony's College. Her work has won numerous awards, including the Samuel Johnson Prize, the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize, a Governor General's Literary Award, and the Duff Cooper Prize. In 2015 she was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. Her most recent book, War: How Conflict Shaped Us, was published by Allen Lane in 2020 and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize. The Guardian called War a “hugely readable chronicle of conflict.” Margaret and I talk about the current alarming state of international relations, about her drive to write historical works that can be read and understood by non-historians, and about the Canadian short-story writer whose biography she would love to write. This podcast is produced and hosted by Nathan Whitlock, in partnership with The Walrus. Music: "simple-hearted thing" by Alex Lukashevsky. Used with permission.

Tune in to the first of our 'In Conversation' podcast episodes, where we speak to all six of this year's shortlisted authors about their extraordinary works of non-fiction. First up, Georgina Godwin speaks to Sue Prideaux, author of 'Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin'. Prideaux's award-winning works have captivated readers worldwide. From her James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning biography of Edvard Munch to her Duff Cooper Prize-winning book on Strindberg, and her celebrated Nietzsche biography, 'I Am Dynamite!', which received the Hawthornden Prize and The Times Biography of the Year in 2018. In her latest work, 'Wild Thing', Prideaux brings to life the vibrant and tumultuous journey of Paul Gauguin. From his privileged start in Peru to his rebellious adventures in France, she offers a nuanced view of Gauguin, celebrating his creative genius while not shying away from his flaws. Listen now to hear all about it. This podcast is generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. To keep up with all of our Prize news all year round, follow @BGPrize on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube.

Sin + Helen have teamed up to write Prophet, in every bookshop you've ever seen right now. Sin is a musician and writer- this is their first novel. Helen, who uses she/they pronouns, is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. They have previously been celebrated internationally for their book H is for Hawk, which won many prizes including the Costa Book of the Year, Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. It was also shortlisted for The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and The Duff Cooper Prize. Their book Vesper Flights was a Sunday Times Bestseller. They presented the BBC Four documentary, The Hidden Wilds of the Motorway, in 2020 and worked as an an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, until 2015. Sin + Helen have been interviewed by The Washington Post, LitHub, The London Review of Books podcast & The Guardian. Get their book ⁠here⁠, or at your local bookshop.

Sin + Helen have teamed up to write Prophet, in every bookshop you've ever seen right now. Sin is a musician and writer- this is their first novel. Helen, who uses she/they pronouns, is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. They have previously been celebrated internationally for their book H is for Hawk, which won many prizes including the Costa Book of the Year, Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. It was also shortlisted for The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and The Duff Cooper Prize. Their book Vesper Flights was a Sunday Times Bestseller. They presented the BBC Four documentary, The Hidden Wilds of the Motorway, in 2020 and worked as an an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, until 2015. Sin + Helen have been interviewed by The Washington Post, LitHub, The London Review of Books podcast & The Guardian. Get their book here, or at your local bookshop.

EPISODE 1861: In the KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Christopher de Hamel, author of THE MANUSCRIPTS CLUB, about the remarkable literary figures behind a thousand years of medieval manuscriptsChristopher de Hamel is the author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, winner of both the Wolfson History Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. Over the course of a long career at Sotheby's he catalogued more illuminated manuscripts than any other person alive, and very possibly more than any one individual has ever done. Christopher de Hamel is now a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was the former librarian of Parker Library, which includes many, even most, of the earliest manuscripts in English language and history. De Hamel lives in London and Cambridge. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue about the life and impact of J. Robert Oppenheimer. They talk about the elusive nature of Oppenheimer, how he became involved with theoretical physics, and the creation of the atomic bomb. They discuss his involvement with communism, AEC hearings, his last years, the legacy of Oppenheimer, and many more topics. Kai Bird is a historian, journalist, and writer. He is executive director and distinguished lecturer at CUNY Graduate Center's Leon Levy Center for Biography in New York City. He is the author of numerous books and is the recipient (along with co-author Martin J. Sherwin) of the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award, the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, and the 2008 Duff Cooper Prize for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. He is also the author of The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter. Website: https://www.kaibird.com/Twitter: @kaibird123 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit convergingdialogues.substack.com

Connaissez-vous notre site ? www.lenouvelespritpublic.frUne émission de Philippe Meyer, enregistrée au studio l'Arrière-boutique le 15 novembre 2019.Avec cette semaine :Julian Jackson, historien britannique et biographe du général de Gaulle.Nicolas Baverez, essayiste et avocat.François Bujon de l'Estang, ambassadeur de France.Michaela Wiegel, correspondante à Paris de la Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.« DE GAULLE » PAR JULIAN JACKSONJ'ai trouvé dans les mémoires du diplomate et journaliste libanais Salah Stétié cette appréciation sur le commandant de Gaulle, rédigée par le général de Bigault du Granrut lorsque de Gaulle quitta son poste au Liban : "Depuis deux ans que je peux l'apprécier dans les fonctions de Chef du 3ème Bureau de mon état-major, je n'ai cessé d'éprouver pour l'ensemble des qualités intellectuelles et morales qu'il possède une estime mêlée d'admiration. Sur la valeur guerrière je n'ai pas besoin d'appuyer, ses blessures, le reste de ses citations se passent de commentaires. J'insiste sur les mérites hors pair de ce soldat qui développe par un travail constant les qualités qu'il a conscience de posséder. Il sait d'ailleurs les faire apprécier avec discrétion, gardant en toutes circonstances une attitude réservée, empreinte d'une correction toute militaire. Beau soldat, ce sera un beau chef, qu'il y a intérêt pour le bien de son armée et de toute l'armée à pousser rapidement aux hautes situations où il donnera sa pleine mesure et ne décevra pas."2020 marquera un triple anniversaire : les 130 ans de la naissance de Charles de Gaulle, les 50 ans de sa disparition et les 80 ans de l'appel du 18 juin. Pour nous y préparer, c'est le citoyen d'un pays avec lequel le général a entretenu des rapports pour le moins contrastés, la Grande Bretagne. Professeur Julian Jackson, vous enseignez à Queen Mary, University of London, vous êtesun spécialiste de l'histoire de la France au XXe siècle. On vous doit notamment, « La France sous l'occupation 1940-1944 » aux éditions Flammarion et vouspubliez aux éditions du Seuil « De Gaulle. Une certaine idée de la France ouvrage salué par la critique britannique, américaine et française et couronné du Duff Cooper Prize.» Pour cette biographie, vous vous êtes appuyé sur de nombreux fonds documentaires, lettres, et livres, et sur les archives récemment ouvertes de la présidence de la Ve République, ainsi que de celles de Michel Debré.La personnalité rugueuse du Général constitue une donnée essentielle pour comprendre un itinéraire parfois chaotique. Courageux, déterminé, mais aussi colérique et ingrat, Charles de Gaulle parait un homme pétri de contradictions : « un soldat qui passa le plus clair de sa carrière à critiquer l'armée ; un conservateur qui s'exprimait souvent comme un révolutionnaire ; un homme de passion incapable, ou presque, d'exprimer des émotions » Si le général de Gaulle s'affirmait guidé par « une certaine idée de la France », vous montrez que cette idée était sujette à d'importantes variations selon une dialectique toute bergsonienne qui cherche « à établir l'importance de l'intuition par rapport à l'intelligence analytique, de l'élan vital contre la doctrine figée ».Vous pouvez consulter notre politique de confidentialité sur https://art19.com/privacy ainsi que la notice de confidentialité de la Californie sur https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the second of a two-part interview, Ryan speaks with one of the great non-fiction writers and historians of our time, Adam Hochschild, about his classic 1986 memoir Half The Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son, the impetus for his latest book American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, and the process that Adam went through to improve his relationship with his father, and more. Adam Hochschild is an American author, journalist, historian, and lecturer. He has written 11 books, including the highly regarded and influential King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains. He has written for the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, Granta, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, and The Nation. He has received many awards for his writing, including the Duff Cooper Prize and the Mark Lynton History Award for King Leopold's Ghost, and the California Book Awards Gold Medal and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for Bury the Chains. Adam graduated from Harvard in 1963, and he holds honorary degrees from Curry College and the University of St. Andrews.✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemailCheck out the Daily Stoic Store for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.

In the first of a two-part interview, Ryan speaks with one of the great non-fiction writers and historians of our time, Adam Hochschild, about how history can inform the push for change in the present, the civil rights trailblazers he examined in his book Bury the Chains (one of Ryan's favorites), the links between the Stoic virtues and the United States' anti-slavery movement, and more. Part two will be published on Saturday.Adam Hochschild is an American author, journalist, historian, and lecturer. He has written 11 books, including the highly regarded and influential King Leopold's Ghost. He has written for the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, Granta, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, and The Nation. He has received many awards for his writing, including the Duff Cooper Prize and the Mark Lynton History Award for King Leopold's Ghost, and the California Book Awards Gold Medal and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for Bury the Chains. Adam graduated from Harvard in 1963, and he holds honorary degrees from Curry College and the University of St. Andrews.✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemailCheck out the Daily Stoic Store for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.

Simon and Rachel speak with the academic and author Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. After undergraduate studies and a PhD at Cambridge, Robert moved to Oxford in 2002, where he is a professor of English Literature and a fellow of Magdalen College. His previous books include "Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist", which won the Duff Cooper Prize for biography in 2011; "The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland" in 2015, which was shortlisted for the Costa Prize, and most recently "The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World" (2021). Robert has edited editions of Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley and J.M. Barrie, and is a regular contributor to the Times, Guardian, Spectator, Literary Review, New Statesman and TLS. He has worked as a historical advisor on BBC adaptations of "Jane Eyre" (2006), "Emma" (2009) and "Great Expectations" (2011); acted as a consultant to the "Enola Holmes" film franchise; and served as a judge for the Man Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes. We spoke to Robert about combining an academic career with writing for a wider audience, his biographies of Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll, and his upcoming book "Metamorphosis." You can find us online at alwaystakenotes.com, on Twitter @takenotesalways and on Instagram @alwaystakenotes. Our crowdfunding page is patreon.com/alwaystakenotes. Always Take Notes is presented by Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd, and produced by Artemis Irvine. Our music is by Jessica Dannheisser and our logo was designed by James Edgar.

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Kai Bird about Jimmy Carter. They discuss the context and environment of rural Georgia in the 1920s in which Carter was born. They talk about the impact of racism in his upbringing, importance of his Christian faith, and steady bond with his wife Rosalynn. They discuss his presidency and inflation and unemployment, Panama Canal, Camp David accords, and the Iran hostage situation. They also discuss why he did not get re-elected in 1980 and his enduring legacy.  Kai Bird is a historian, journalist, and writer. He is executive director and distinguished lecturer at CUNY Graduate Center's Leon Levy Center for Biography in New York City. He is the author of numerous books and is the recipient (along with co-author Michael J. Sherwin) of the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award, the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, and the 2008 Duff Cooper Prize for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. He is also the author of The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter. You can find his work here. Twitter: @kaibird123

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Roderick Beaton, the author of “Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation”, to discuss the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution of 1821. Roderick Beaton is a record-breaking four-time winner of the Runciman Award, and his books have been shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Cundill History Prize. For thirty years until his retirement he held the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London, and is now Emeritus. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: a.keen@me.com Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankeen/ Watch the show live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lithub Watch the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LiteraryHub/videos Subscribe to Andrew's newsletter: https://andrew2ec.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recorded June 09, 2020, 11AM PST Robert Service discusses Putin's Russia: Threat Or Opportunity? The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars. ABOUT THE FELLOW Robert Service, a noted Russian historian and political commentator, is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. His research interests concern Russian history and politics in all its aspects, from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Service was awarded the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize for his biography Trotsky (Harvard University Press, 2009). To receive notifications about upcoming briefings, please sign up by clicking here: http://eepurl.com/gXjSSb.

J’ai trouvé dans les mémoires du diplomate et journaliste libanais Salah Stétié cette appréciation sur le commandant de Gaulle, rédigée par le général de Bigault du Granrut lorsque de Gaulle quitta son poste au Liban : "Depuis deux ans que je peux l'apprécier dans les fonctions de Chef du 3ème Bureau de mon état-major, je n'ai cessé d'éprouver pour l'ensemble des qualités intellectuelles et morales qu'il possède une estime mêlée d'admiration. Sur la valeur guerrière je n'ai pas besoin d'appuyer, ses blessures, le reste de ses citations se passent de commentaires. J'insiste sur les mérites hors pair de ce soldat qui développe par un travail constant les qualités qu'il a conscience de posséder. Il sait d'ailleurs les faire apprécier avec discrétion, gardant en toutes circonstances une attitude réservée, empreinte d'une correction toute militaire. Beau soldat, ce sera un beau chef, qu'il y a intérêt pour le bien de son armée et de toute l'armée à pousser rapidement aux hautes situations où il donnera sa pleine mesure et ne décevra pas." 2020 marquera un triple anniversaire : les 130 ans de la naissance de Charles de Gaulle, les 50 ans de sa disparition et les 80 ans de l’appel du 18 juin. Pour nous y préparer, c’est le citoyen d’un pays avec lequel le général a entretenu des rapports pour le moins contrastés, la Grande Bretagne. Professeur Julian Jackson, vous enseignez à Queen Mary, University of London, vous êtesun spécialiste de l’histoire de la France au XXe siècle. On vous doit notamment, « La France sous l’occupation 1940-1944 » aux éditions Flammarion et vouspubliez aux éditions du Seuil « De Gaulle. Une certaine idée de la France ouvrage salué par la critique britannique, américaine et française et couronné du Duff Cooper Prize.» Pour cette biographie, vous vous êtes appuyé sur de nombreux fonds documentaires, lettres, et livres, et sur les archives récemment ouvertes de la présidence de la Ve République, ainsi que de celles de Michel Debré. La personnalité rugueuse du Général constitue une donnée essentielle pour comprendre un itinéraire parfois chaotique. Courageux, déterminé, mais aussi colérique et ingrat, Charles de Gaulle parait un homme pétri de contradictions : « un soldat qui passa le plus clair de sa carrière à critiquer l’armée ; un conservateur qui s’exprimait souvent comme un révolutionnaire ; un homme de passion incapable, ou presque, d’exprimer des émotions » Si le général de Gaulle s’affirmait guidé par « une certaine idée de la France », vous montrez que cette idée était sujette à d’importantes variations selon une dialectique toute bergsonienne qui cherche « à établir l’importance de l’intuition par rapport à l’intelligence analytique, de l’élan vital contre la doctrine figée ». Professeur Jackson, au fil des 1.000 pages de votre biographie, comment s’est modifiée la certaine idée du général de Gaulle de vos débuts ?

Histoire – émission préparée et animée par Annette Wieviorka qui reçoit Julian Jackson pour son livre « De Gaulle – Une certaine idée de la France » paru aux éditions du Seuil À propos du livre : " De Gaulle – Une certaine idée de la France " Paru aux éditions du Seuil S'appuyant sur une très large masse d'archives et de mémoires, Julian Jackson explore toutes les dimensions du mystère de Gaulle, sans chercher à lui donner une excessive cohérence. Personne n'avait décrit ses paradoxes et ses ambiguïtés, son talent politique et sa passion pour la tactique, son pragmatisme et son sens du possible, avec autant d'acuité et d'esprit. Des citations abondantes, éblouissantes d'intelligence, de drôlerie, de méchanceté parfois, restituent la parole de De Gaulle mais aussi les commentaires de Churchill et de tous ceux qui ont appris à le connaître, à se méfier de lui ou à s'exaspérer de son caractère vindicatif, de son ingratitude ou de ses provocations... Julian Jackson relit cette existence politique hors normes et son rapport à la France à la lumière des questions du passé, qu'il restitue de manière extraordinairement vivace, et de celles qui nous occupent aujourd'hui – et notamment l'histoire coloniale et l'Europe, la place de la France dans le monde, mais aussi évidemment les institutions de la Ve République. En ce sens, c'est une biographie pour notre temps. C'est aussi une biographie à distance, par un observateur décalé qui mieux qu'aucun autre fait ressortir le caractère extravagant d'un personnage singulier à tout point de vue, extraordinairement romanesque dans ses audaces comme dans ses parts d'ombres, et dont l'héritage ne cesse de hanter la mémoire des Français. Spécialiste de l'histoire de la France au XXe siècle, Julian Jackson est professeur d'Histoire à Queen Mary, University of London. Sur toutes les listes des meilleurs livres de l'année en Grande-Bretagne, sa biographie de De Gaulle a été couronnée du très prestigieux Duff Cooper Prize.

  Claudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg) speaks here with Christopher de Hamel, whose most recent book is Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. This work won the Wolfson History Prize for history written for the general public and the Duff Cooper Prize for best work of history, biography, or political science. For 25 years from 1975, he was responsible for all catalogues and sales of medieval manuscripts at Sotheby's worldwide, and from 2000 to 2016 he was librarian of the Parker Library in Cambridge, one of the finest small collections of medieval books in the world. De Hamel is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. He has doctorates from both Oxford and Cambridge, as well as several honorary doctorates. He is a Fellow of the prestigious Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Roxburghe Club.  

Historian and New York Times bestselling author shares the complete biography of Thomas Cromwell, the man behind Henry VIII Since the sixteenth century we have been fascinated by Henry VIII and the man who stood beside him, guiding him, enriching him, and enduring the king's insatiable appetites and violent outbursts until Henry ordered his beheading in July 1540. After a decade of sleuthing in the royal archives, Diarmaid MacCulloch has emerged with THOMAS CROMWELL: A Revolutionary Life, a tantalizing new understanding of Henry's mercurial chief minister. History has not been kind to the son of a Putney brewer who became the architect of England's split with Rome. However, in THOMAS CROMWELL, MacCulloch unveils a more sympathetic figure. Was Cromwell the villain of history or the victim of its creation? MacCulloch sifted through letters and court records for answers and found Cromwell’s fingerprints on some of the most transformative decisions of Henry’s turbulent reign. However, he also found Cromwell the man, an administrative genius, and loving father. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. His books include Thomas Cranmer: A Life, which won the Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the Duff Cooper Prize; The Reformation: A History, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Wolfson Prize; and Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, a New York Times bestseller that won the Cundill Prize in History. An Anglican deacon, knighted in 2012, he has presented many highly celebrated documentaries for television and radio. He lives in Oxford, England. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steve-richards/support

How Nietzsche might have responded to current debates, including Trump, 'post-truth', identity and Europe. Kwame Anthony Appiah talks about his new work on identity and biographer Sue Prideaux and philosophers Hugo Drochon and Katrina Mitcheson join Matthew Sweet to think about Nietzsche. I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux is published on October 30th. Her books include Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream, which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and Strindberg: A Life, which received the Duff Cooper Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Kwame Anthony Appiah is the author of books including As If, Idealization Ideals, Cosmpolitan: Ethics in a World of Strangers and his new book which draws on his thinking for BBC Radio 4's Reith Lectures is called The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity. You can find a playlist of discussions about Culture Wars and Identity here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06jngzt Producer: Luke Mulhall.

Kassia and Simon speak to Lucy Hughes-Hallett, author of The Pike, a biography of Italian rake Gabriele d'Annunzio, which won all three of the UK's most prestigious prizes for non-fiction for 2013 - The Duff Cooper Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Costa Biography of the Year award. Lucy spoke to us about the rhythms of her work, her relationship with agents and publishers, and her literary treatment of heroism. https://lucyhugheshallett.com/ https://twitter.com/lucyhh You can find us online at alwaystakenotes.com, on Twitter @takenotesalways, and on Facebook at facebook.com/alwaystakenotes. Our crowdfunding page is patreon.com/alwaystakenotes. Always Take Notes is presented by Kassia St Clair and Simon Akam, and produced by Olivia Crellin, Ed Kiernan and Elizabeth Davies. Ed Kiernan edited this episode. Zahra Hankir is our communities editor. Our music is by Jessica Dannheisser and our logo was designed by James Edgar.

Where would we be without Charles Dickens? The biographer and academic Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and short story writer Helen Simpson join Alex Clark for a very festive edition of the Vintage Podcast.Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooksSign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletterRobert is an award-winning biographer and Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. His most recent book is The Story of Alice; before that he wrote Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist which won the Duff Cooper Prize. He is currently working on a new book called The Turning Point: Dickens’s World in 1851. The year of the Great Exhibition and the year in which Dickens began writing Bleak House, 1851 has been called the turning point of the century as well as of Dickens’s career. You can read more about his books here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/robert-douglas-fairhurst/1074442/Helen is the author of six short story collections including Four Bare Legs In a Bed, Constitutional and Hey Yeah Right Get A Life. In 2011 Helen wrote a short story for The Times called ‘The Chimes’ about a book club dissecting Dickens’s novel The Chimes, which he wrote as a follow up of sorts to A Christmas Carol. Later published in her collection Cockfosters, it draws uncomfortable parallels between Dickens’s world and our own – and has more than a little of Dickens’s playfulness about it too.Read more about her work here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/helen-simpson/1006023/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. Her novel Eileen was awarded the 2016 Pen/Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her short fiction has earned her the Paris Review Plimpton Prize, a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, and an O. Henry Award. Her collection Homesick for Another World was published in January 2017. McGlue was her debut novel, and the winner of the Fence Modern Prize for Prose and the Believer Book Award, and is being published in the U.K. for the first time. Lucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of The Pike, a biography of Gabriele d’Annunzio, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction, the Costa Biography Award, the Duff Cooper Prize and the Paddy Power Political Biography of the Year Award. Her other books are Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions which was published in 1990 to wide acclaim, and Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen, published in 2004, which garnered similar praise.... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Miranda Carter tells the story of the thugs of the East India Company. Miranda Carter's first book, Anthony Blunt: His Lives, won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Orwell Prize and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the Guardian First Book Award, the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The book was named as one of the New York Times Book Review's seven best books of 2002. Her most recent book is The Strangler Vine, written under the name M.J. Carter, is a novel about the East India Company. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Maya Jasanoff appears at the 2011 National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: Maya Jasanoff is currently an associate professor of history at Harvard University. Her first book, "Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture and Conquest in the East, 1750???1850," was awarded the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and was a book of the year selection in numerous publications, including The Economist, The Guardian and The Sunday Times of London. She was a fellow of the Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center, the New York Public Library and the American Council of Learned Societies and has contributed essays to the London Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine and The New York Review of Books. Her latest work is "Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5391.

Margaret MacMillan was educated at the University of Toronto and at Oxford, where she obtained a B. Phil. in politics and a D. Phil. for a thesis on the British in India between 1880 and 1920. Her books include Women of the Raj, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, which won the 2003 Governor General's Award, the Samuel Johnson Prize, the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize and was a New York Times Editors' Choice for 2002, Nixon in China, The Uses and Abuses of History, and most recently Penguin's Extraordinary Canadians:  Stephen Leacock.  Currently, MacMillan is the Warden of St. Anthony's College, Oxford University.   We met recently in Montreal at the Blue Met Writers Festival. I posed a simple question: Referencing the two most recent books you have authored: How do you write history? Please listen here to a comprehensive,  enthusiastic answer that addresses research, records, racism, other potential worlds, being of your time, Iraq, lessons, dangers, inevitable biases, humour and Stephen Leacock's legacy.    

Biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist Victoria Glendinning was born in Sheffield, and educated at Somerville College, Oxford, where she read Modern Languages. She worked as a teacher and social worker before becoming an editorial assistant for the Times Literary Supplement in 1974. President of English PEN, she was awarded a CBE in 1998. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Southampton, Ulster, Dublin and York. Her biographies include Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer, 1977; Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions (1981), which won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography) and the Duff Cooper Prize; and Rebecca West: A Life (1987), and Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West (1983) and Trollope (1992) both of which won the Whitbread Biography Award. We talk here ostensibly about her latest book, Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie: Letters and Diaries 1941- 1973 but in fact, mostly about the nature of biography, the difference between editing letters and writing lives, fabricating dialogue, compiling data, selecting facts; the importance of place, material and familial limitations, life over art, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Sissinghurst, and text versus context.