# Samuel Johnson Prize

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Sin Blaché + Helen MacDonald: Fandom, Genre Bending & Collaborating

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 ‮…

Wade Davis - Doorway to the Gods: Sacred Plant Medicine

Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, and Polynesia to the Arctic. Explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013, he is currently a professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Cha‮…

The Age of Wonder

Welcome to Season 6 for Books Broads and Booze! This season is all about award winning books. Join me at my wonderful guest, Stephanie, in our discussion of The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. Awards: 2009 Before Columbus Foundation-ABA, 20‮…

Little Atoms 912 - James Shapiro's The Playbook

James Shapiro, who teaches English at Columbia University in New York, is author of several books, including 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (winner of the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize in 2006 and the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' in 2023), as well as Contested Will: Who Wrote S‮…

KATE SUMMERSCALE In Person With Paul

KATE SUMMERSCALE chats to Paul about her new history THE PEEPSHOW, 10 Rillington Place, misogyny & male violence, the cultural and wider societal impact of a notorious murder.THE PEEPSHOW: London, 1953. Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a ding‮…

Little Atoms 920 - Kate Summerscale's The Peepshow

Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, winner of the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselli‮…

Little Atoms 933 - Sumit Paul-Choudhury's The Bright Side

Sumit Paul-Choudhury is an astrophysicist-turned-journalist, former editor-in-chief of New Scientist magazine and has served as a judge for the Baillie Gifford Prize (then Samuel Johnson Prize), the Wellcome Prize and the Costa Book Awards. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil D‮…

Margaret MacMillan

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 Co‮…

Episode 91. The Bright Side: How Optimism Can Change Your Life & Career – Sumit Paul-Choudhury

How can optimism help transform your life and career? I had the pleasure of discussing this, his new book The Bright Side and so much more with Sumit Paul-Choudhury on Episode 91 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. In this episode, we will learn about: How Sumit developed his leadership ‮…

How new is the new world order, Margaret MacMillan?

We are witnessing changes in the world order which many thought we would never live to see. The US, long a bedrock of democracy, appears to go heading down an anti-democratic path. Traditional alliances are falling apart, while longtime enemies are drawing closer together. Meanwhile Europe, long a‮…