The Waterstones Podcast

Memory gives us the chance to speak to three authors who all approach this theme from completely different directions. E... Read more

Culture comes in many forms and we’ve tried to cram as much as we can into this week’s episode. Richard Ayoade takes us ... Read more

Malcolm Gladwell brings fascinating anecdotes and insight to why humans are so bad at reading each other on first meetin... Read more

Robert Macfarlane joins us in the studio to talk about the world outside, the climate emergency and how the landscape ha... Read more

Author and bookshop owner Ann Patchett joins us to talk about why a bookshop should be at the heart of any community and... Read more

Books have provided the inspiration for countless films, plays, musicals, TV series, and other works of art. In Adaptati... Read more

What is it that short stories can do that novels cannot? Why does it appeal to some writers and not others? In this epis... Read more

At the start of a new year, and indeed a new decade, we’re taking the theme of Changes to allow us to talk to Dr Rangan ... Read more

Beware: this episode may make you hungry. We’re joined by gourmand Jay Rayner to look back at the life experiences that ... Read more

A little bonus episode for you, recorded with Jessie Ware and Lennie Ware of Table Manners podcast fame when they came t... Read more

In these uncertain times we bring you a podcast that confronts our fears and anxieties to bring a note of hope and even ... Read more

There is something unique about the bond of motherhood but with social media adding to the pressures already present, ho... Read more

With the recent announcement that Stephanie Meyer’s retelling of the Twilight saga from Edward Cullen’s perspective (Mid... Read more

We have been told for centuries that humans are not much more than brutal animals with a thin veneer of civilisation on ... Read more

Now, it might seem a strange time to be calling a podcast episode Apocalypse but in many ways now is the perfect time to... Read more

After bringing the best of world TV to UK screens with Walter Presents, Walter Iuzzolino is now doing the same with lite... Read more

A book about human connection would an essential read at any time but right now it seems vital. Vivek Murthy served as S... Read more

As a psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience Julia Samuel knows that change can present moments of crisis and c... Read more

You don’t start a new podcast season at this time of year without injecting some thrills and chills. Stephen Chbosky, au... Read more

For our final episode in season one we tackle our nearest (if not dearest). Jeanette Winterson talks about how being ado... Read more