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The Hatchards Podcast

Auteur(s): Ryan Edgington and Matt Hennessey
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 The Hatchards Podcast is a conversation show about books brought to you by England’s oldest bookshop. Featuring interviews with some of our favourite authors, bookish waffle, and the occasional glass of wine. Hosted by Ryan Edgington and Matt Hennessey.Hatchards Art Sciences sociales
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  • Lyse Doucet on The Finest Hotel in Kabul: Freedom and Frontline Journalism

    Lyse Doucet on The Finest Hotel in Kabul: Freedom and Frontline Journalism
    Sep 23 2025
    On this episode, we had the privilege of sitting down with Lyse Doucet, the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent, to discuss her powerful new book The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan.
    Now nominated for the Baillie Gifford Prize, this deeply personal work reflects Lyse’s decades of reporting on Afghanistan from the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, during which she forged lasting connections with both the hotel’s staff and its guests. These relationships have shaped her unique perspective on the country’s turbulent history.
    Lyse spoke with us about her remarkable career reporting from the frontlines, as well as her reflections on writing, the changing media landscape, and the responsibilities and challenges that come with international journalism. She also offered her perspective on how Afghanistan is too often seen only through the lens of conflict, and why it is important to recognise the country’s rich cultural heritage alongside its history of war.Hosted by Ryan Edgington and Olivia Robinson.
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    43 min
  • Roger Lewis on The Life and Death of Peter Sellers: Goons, Ghosts, and Destructive Genius

    Roger Lewis on The Life and Death of Peter Sellers: Goons, Ghosts, and Destructive Genius
    Aug 19 2025
    On this episode, we welcome back Roger Lewis, whose deeply researched and gleefully idiosyncratic biographies of British performing artists have come to constitute a genre all their own.
    Our subject is the book that began it all: his classic The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, newly reissued in a hardback edition with a foreword by Steve Coogan. In its pages, Lewis makes the case that Sellers was, alongside Olivier, perhaps the finest British actor of the twentieth century — even as he remained one of the most impossible.
    In our conversation, he conjures Sellers as a man without a core, a figure of astonishing mimicry in whom there was no enduring sense of self. From The Goon Show to The Ladykillers, from The Pink Panther to Dr. Strangelove and Being There, the magnificence of the performances remains undeniable. But so, too, is the destruction he left in his wake.

    Hosted by Ryan Edgington.
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    41 min
  • Francesca Wade on Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, the Avant-Garde, and Alice B. Toklas

    Francesca Wade on Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, the Avant-Garde, and Alice B. Toklas
    Jun 24 2025
    On this episode, we were joined by Francesca Wade to discuss her groundbreaking new biography, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife.

    This book paints a dual portrait of Gertrude Stein by dividing her story into two parts: her life and her afterlife. Doing this not only brings her partner, Alice B. Toklas, into clearer view, but also separates Stein’s work and its lasting impact from her larger-than-life personality.

    Francesca takes us behind the scenes of her exhaustive research—from exploring the Yale archives, which hold over 75 years of manuscripts, personal letters, and photographs, to visiting the French countryside where Stein and Toklas lived during the German occupation.

    We also discuss how Toklas, left behind after Stein’s death, devoted herself to preserving Stein’s legacy, even as she struggled with legal battles and near-poverty while living surrounded by Picassos she couldn’t bring herself to sell.

    Hosted by Ryan Edgington and Olivia Robinson.
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    45 min
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