Philip Hensher

13 Podcast Episodes

Philip Hensher - The Mulberry Empire : a fictional look at the British involvement in 19th century Afghanistan

Philip Hensher - The Mulberry Empire : a fictional look at the British involvement in 19th century Afghanistan

Philip Hensher is an author, academic, critic and a past Booker Prize judge. I spoke to him when his novel The Mulberry ... Read more

24 Aug 2022

15mins

Episode 2: Naomi Alderman and Philip Hensher

Episode 2: Naomi Alderman and Philip Hensher

Our guests for this episode are Naomi Alderman, author of The Power, winner of the 2017 Bailey’s Women’s Prize For Ficti... Read more

1 Apr 2021

38mins

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Spectator Out Loud: Leading article, Douglas Murray and Philip Hensher

Spectator Out Loud: Leading article, Douglas Murray and Philip Hensher

On this episode, Cindy Yu starts by reading the leader - The Spectator has a fight on it's hands as the Scottish Crown O... Read more

20 Mar 2021

25mins

Spectator Out Loud: Douglas Murray, Francis Pike and Philip Hensher

Spectator Out Loud: Douglas Murray, Francis Pike and Philip Hensher

On this week's episode, Douglas Murray asks - why would anyone want to be a government adviser, given what's happened to... Read more

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Little Atoms 634 - Philip Hensher's A Small Revolution in Germany

Little Atoms 634 - Philip Hensher's A Small Revolution in Germany

Philip Hensher has written eleven novels, including The Mulberry Empire, the Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency, K... Read more

27 Apr 2020

26mins

Stoppard -Leopoldstadt, Emma, Philip Hensher, Steve McQueen - Tate Modern, The End

Stoppard -Leopoldstadt, Emma, Philip Hensher, Steve McQueen - Tate Modern, The End

Tom Stoppard has a new play - Leopoldstadt - a slightly autobiographical telling of the story of several generations of ... Read more

15 Feb 2020

56mins

3: Philip Hensher

3: Philip Hensher

On this week's Teatulia Podcast, Granta's Simon Heathfield talks to Philip Hensher about his new novel, The Friendly One... Read more

30 Aug 2019

27mins

Little Atoms 500! Philip Hensher’s The Friendly Ones

Little Atoms 500! Philip Hensher’s The Friendly Ones

The 500th Little Atoms! Philip Hensher has written nine novels, including The Mulberry Empire, the Booker-shortlisted Th... Read more

26 Mar 2018

41mins

A Wrinkle In Time, The Great Wave, Philip Hensher, Come Home (BBC1), America's Cool Modernism

A Wrinkle In Time, The Great Wave, Philip Hensher, Come Home (BBC1), America's Cool Modernism

Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kayling star as deities who are millions of years old in the £108m mega-budge... Read more

24 Mar 2018

53mins

Philip Hensher on The Emperor Waltz

Philip Hensher on The Emperor Waltz

Philip Hensher is the author of nine novels and one collection of short stories, including The Mulberry Empire, the 2008... Read more

10 Nov 2014

21mins

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