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Katherine Bucknell
July 07, 2024

Katherine Bucknell discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.Katherine Bucknell edited all four volumes of Christopher Isherwood's Diaries , a volume of letters between Christopher Isherwood and his partner Don Bachardy (The Animals), a

Tom Newton Dunn
June 30, 2024

Tom Newton Dunn is a presenter, political commentator and writer. He first made his name as an award-winning defence correspondent covering the Iraq and Afghan wars. He went on to be Political Editor of The Sun for 11 years, leading coverage of four gener

Alex Edmans
June 23, 2024

Alex Edmans discusses with Ivan six things which should be less well known.Alexs new book is May Contain Lies, about misinformation, and so, in a reversal of the usual format, he discusses six ideas and beliefs which have been overexposed.Alex Edmans i

Jonn Elledge
June 16, 2024

Jonn Elledge is a New Statesman columnist, and a contributor to the Big Issue, the Guardian, the Evening Standard, and a number of other newspapers. He was previously an assistant editor at the New Statesman, where he created and ran its urbanism-focused

Anthony Daniels
March 31, 2024

Anthony Daniels discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.Anthony Daniels was born in London in 1949. He retired from medical practice except for medico-legal work in 2005. He has written several books, including an account of a journey

Leah Redmond Chang
March 24, 2024

Historian Leah Redmond Chang discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.Leah Redmond Chang is a former Associate Professor of French and Director of the French Literature Programme at George Washington University, and was most recently a

Alice Loxton
March 17, 2024

Historian Alice Loxton discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.Alice Loxton is a 28 year old history broadcaster and writer with over two million followers on social media (@history_alice). She has appeared on many channels including

Charlie Russell
March 10, 2024

Charlie Russell discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.Charlie Russell she/her. Creative Associate and co-founder at Mischief. Trained at LAMDA. Work with Mischief includes Groan Ups (West End); The Play That Goes Wrong (UK Tour, We

Sunny Singh
March 03, 2024

Sunny Singh discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.Sunny Singh is a writer, novelist, public intellectual, and a champion for decolonisation and inclusion across all aspects of society. She is the author of three critically acclaimed

Alexandra Tolstoy
February 25, 2024

Alexandra Tolstoy discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.Alexandra Tolstoy is an Anglo-Russian mother, adventurer, author and TV presenter. She organises adventurous horse riding holidays in Kyrgyzstan, and runs The Tolstoy Edit, a c