Best Penguin Books UK Podcasts (2024)

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LEMONY SNICKET, AF STEADMAN & NICKY SMITH-DALE: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Skandar III & Betty Steady and the Toad Witch 22:51

1d ago22:51

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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Daniel Handler from Team Lemony Snicket all about all about the 25th anniversary edition of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Bex then caught up with AF Steadman to chat about the 3rd book in the Skandar series where Skandar and his friends must complete a series of terrif…

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JOE WICKS, CLARE BALDING & ELLE MCNICOLL: Keeping happier, The Best Animal Facts & Keedie 25:03

16d ago25:03

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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Joe Wicks all about his new release Fitter, Healthier, Happier where we learn all about our body and minds. Bex then caught up with Clare Balding all about her hilarious guide to the animal kingdom where your favourite animals go head to head in Animal All Stars Last up …

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Marketing to schools and the power of teacher case studies - Olivia Tanner (Digital Marketing Strategist at BookMachine) 37:18

23d ago37:18

37:18

We were delighted to speak with Olivia Tanner, Digital Marketing Strategist at BookMachine Creative Agency and experienced education marketer about the importance of marketing to schools in the right way. We asked her about what techniques and approaches she uses to get busy teachers on board and why teacher case studies and hearing directly from t…

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DAVID BADDIEL SPECIAL: The Parent Agency's 10th Anniversary 22:49

30d ago22:49

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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! On this week's podcast we have a special interview with author, comedian and all-round legend David Baddiel. Him and Bex chat all about the 10th anniversary edition of his book The Parent Agency, the plans to move it on stage and perhaps our best this or that yet! Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkids…

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BEX'S WORLD BOOK DAY BONANZA 🌍📖 32:12

1M ago32:12

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Welcome to Fun Kids Book Worms for our World Book Day Special! We'll hear from some of the very best and your favourite authors in this bumper special edition of the podcast. WHO'S ON THE SHOW TODAY? David Walliams about his 2022 release Space Boy Carrie Hope Fletcher all about 'The Double Trouble Society and the Worst Curse! Author of Kensuke's Ki…

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Production: Book Publishing's Unsung Hero - Srishti Kadu (Book Production Professional) 41:11

2M ago41:11

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With spiralling costs and huge disruption to the supply chain, publishing production departments have had it tough of late. We speak with award-winning production professional Srishti Kadu to get her take on the recent changes and challenges that production colleagues are responding to. We discuss her thoughts on production careers, global impacts …

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HOW THE NEWS WORKS and the ATTACK of the STINK MONSTER!🗞️👾 33:05

2M ago33:05

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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Jane Marlow & Lisa Campbell all about their new release Inside Story: How The News Works where we learn about the work behind the scenes of how our news bulletins really work and how they're put together. Bex then caught up with Jenny McLachlan all about STINK: FAIRY VS.…

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Time Travelling PENGUINS & the quest for IMMORTALITY🐧⚔️ 17:27

2M ago17:27

17:27

Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Sheena Dempsey about her new release Pablo & Splash where we join time-travelling penguins on an unexpected adventure to the time of the dinosaurs. Bex also caught up with Siobhan McDermott all about Paper Dragons: The Fight for the Hidden Realm where a 12-year-old girl …

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William Blake's poetry with Philip Pullman 56:16

3M ago56:16

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William Blake’s poetry and prose. We visit Sir Philip at home to discuss the poet who has ‘inspired and intoxicated’ him for the last sixty years. In Philip’s book-lined sitting room we discuss Blake’s most loved works: his Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Auguries of Innocence. Pullman has written frequentl…

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Giovanni’s Room with Caryl Phillips 1:11:09

3M ago1:11:09

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James Baldwin in Paris. On the rain-soaked boulevards, the novelist Caryl Phillips discusses Baldwin's exquisite same-sex love story, drinking in the Cafe de Flore and exploring Saint Germain des Prés. Phillips, who knew James Baldwin, wrote the introduction to the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Giovanni’s Room and an unfilmed screenplay of the…

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A SUPERHERO called INVISADOG and why TIME is more important than you think! 28:54

3M ago28:54

28:54

Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Stuart Heritage about his new release The ODD Squad: Rise of Invisadog where we meet a team of heroic animal crime-fighters you'll never forget. Sam Sedgeman also joined Bex to chat all about about The Clockwork Conspiracy, a locked-room mystery packed with rooftop chase…

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John Donne's poetry with Katherine Rundell 1:19:35

3M ago1:19:35

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John Donne’s poetry and prose in London. The scholar and children’s author Katherine Rundell traces the life and paradoxical career of John Donne from the street where he was born, through the palaces and colleges where he worked to the cathedral where he preached and now lies buried. In 2022 Rundell won the Baillie-Gifford Prize for her biography …

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle with Ruth Franklin 1:15:38

3M ago1:15:38

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Shirley Jackson in North Bennington, Vermont. Award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin visits the small village of North Bennington, where Jackson lived for twenty years. We stand in the square where Jackson imagined 'The Lottery' and conjure the ghost of Merricat Blackwood as she collects her sinister groceries in Jackson’s last and greatest novel, …

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Time Travelling with a TORTOISE & Tamzin Merchant's The Troublemakers🐢🪄 27:53

3M ago27:53

27:53

Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex chatted to Tamzin Merchant about her brand new book The Troublemakers as we return to the magical world of The Hatmakers in an epic and exciting new adventure on the high seas Ross Welford also joined Bex on the first podcast of 2024 to chat all Time Travelling with a Tortoise all …

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Angela Carter's Fairy Tales with Marina Warner 1:12:48

4M ago1:12:48

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Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. In Dame Marina Warner's magical home in North London, the historian and mythographer discusses Perrault's Tales of Mother Goose and their English translation by Angela Carter, as well as Carter’s own Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. Our wide-ranging conversation covers Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, B…

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Bex's Best Books of 2023 49:54

4M ago49:54

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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! In today's episode to round off 2023, Bex goes through her favourite books of the year month by month and we hear from the authors who wrote them That's all on this week's very special episode of Fun Kids Book Worms Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus See omnystudio.com/listener for pri…

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The Best Of the Penguin Podcast 2023 36:09

4M ago36:09

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This week on the Penguin Podcast we're recapping the year with a selection of the brilliant guests we've welcomed onto the show. We hear from Jane Fallon, Chris van Tulleken, Julian Barnes, David Mitchell and more. We thank you for tuning in, and we'll see you in 2024. Happy holidays. Don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode, and don'…

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A Christmas Carol with Simon Callow – Christmas Special 2023 1:12:43

4M ago1:12:43

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Charles Dickens in London. For this festive Christmas Special, the actor and author Simon Callow joins Henry to summon the ghost of Ebeneezer Scrooge and follow him around the City of London, starting at Cornhill, taking in Leadenhall Market and meeting all three Spirits of Christmas. A Christmas Carol, Dickens’s best loved novel, was published on …

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Sebastian Faulks with Nihal Arthanayake 42:34

4M ago42:34

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This week on the Penguin Podcast, Nihal Arthanayake is joined by national treasure and bestselling author, Sebastian Faulks. Together they they discuss the tweet that helped inspire his latest book, The Seventh Son, his thoughts on imposter Syndrome and humility, the influence of George Orwell on his political outlook, and a magical riverbank he di…

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A Clockwork Orange with Jeff Noon and Andrew Biswell 1:17:20

4M ago1:17:20

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Anthony Burgess in East Sussex. On the 30th anniversary of Burgess’s death, the science fiction author Jeff Noon and the biographer Andrew Biswell travel East Sussex with Henry, visiting the rented flat where Burgess began writing A Clockwork Orange, O my brothers, and the quiet village where he finished it, taking in a pub, a prison, ultra violenc…

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Eoin Colfer, The Snow Girl, Beano's latest Boomic & Everything Under The Sun 45:43

4M ago45:43

45:43

Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex got chatting to Craig Graham, Mike Sterling and Laura Graham from Beano all about their Boomic series and which character the latest installment is focusing on? To get you all in the festive mood we're now joined by Indie Book Award winning author Sophie Anderson about her brand ne…

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Infusing Inspiration in Publishing - Shannon Cullen, Group Publishing Director at Quarto Kids 36:08

4M ago36:08

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Managing teams across generations and departments can call for a variety of approaches and working styles, which is why hearing from experts on the topic is key. We were delighted to speak with Shannon Cullen, Group Publishing Director of Quarto Kids, about her career and journey to her role where she is now. We ask about her experience moving from…

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Farewell, My Lovely with Dick Lochte 1:04:14

4M ago1:04:14

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Raymond Chandler in Santa Monica. As well as The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, we discuss Farewell, My Lovely, Chandler’s favourite of his own novels, as we walk the noir streets of ‘Bay City’ – or Santa Monica in Southern California – retracing Philip Marlowe's footsteps from City Hall to Santa Monica Pier, and chatting about Dick's hard-boiled …

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C Pam Zhang with Nihal Arthanayake 45:57

5M ago45:57

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This week on the Penguin Podcast, Nihal Arthanayake is joined by Booker Longlisted author, C Pam Zhang. Together they discuss Zhang's latest novel, The Land of Milk and Honey, as well as the effects of extreme wealth on the human psyche, the place of pleasure and joy in human existence, the many expectations still placed upon women, and the literar…

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Frankenstein with Anil Seth and Fiona Sampson 1:14:09

5M ago1:14:09

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Mary Shelley in Bath. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin finished writing Frankenstein while lodging in Bath and attending lectures on electricity and galvanism. We visit the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution and the recently opened Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein with the neuroscientist Anil Seth (author of Being You) and the poet and bi…

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The Frost Fair, A Magical Dress & Michael Rosen's Big Dreaming 20:27

5M ago20:27

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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex got chatting to Natasha Hasting all about her brand new book The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost Fair! The perfect book to welcome the Christmas season in. We've got another magical story for you! Robert Tregoning's The Dress in the Window is a tale of a boy who falls in love wit…

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Leading in Changing Times - Emma House, Founder and Managing Consultant of the Oreham Group 35:24

5M ago35:24

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The publishing industry has changed a lot in the past few years, how are industry leaders changing with it? We were thrilled to speak with Emma House, Founder and Managing Consultant of the Oreham Group, about her approach to leadership and what lights her up when managing teams and company strategies. We talk about the challenges posed by the pand…

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Pride and Prejudice with Monica Ali 1:15:04

5M ago1:15:04

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Jane Austen in Chawton. The novelist Monica Ali joins Henry to visit Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen wrote all of her novels – as well as nearby Chawton House, once owned by Austen’s brother Edward and now home to the Centre for the Study of Early Women’s Writing. Penguin Classics edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Auste…

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Peter Singer with Nihal Arthanayake 52:03

5M ago52:03

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This week on the Penguin Podcast, Nihal Arthanayake is joined by one of our time's most important moral philosophers and animal rights activists, Peter Singer. In this episode, they discuss Singer's experience of animal rights in the 70s compared to now, what inspired him to begin campaigning for the rights of animals, the importance of suffering i…

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Yanis Varoufakis with Nihal Arthanayake 54:47

5M ago54:47

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This week on the Penguin Podcast, Nihal Arthanayake is joined by the former Finance Minister of Greece and co-founder of the international grassroots movement DM25 as well as a Professor of economics at the University of Athens, Yanis Varoufakis. His latest book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, explores how the owners of big tech have beco…

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The Beast & the Bethany's Latest Instalment, a 19th Century Fantasyland & an Amazing Spook Anthology👻📖 20:17

5M ago20:17

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Welcome to the latest episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex got chatting to Jack Meggitt-Phillips about The Beast & the Bethany: Child of the Beast in the latest instalment in his beastly series. Peter Bunzl is back too, talking about his new book Glassborn! Set in a 19th century fantasyland where he explains what magical adventures the Bel…

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Leading with Inclusion - Jaini Haria, Campaigns Manager (Ebury) at Penguin Random House UK and Lydia Cronin, Demand Generation Manager at Bright Network 50:49

6M ago50:49

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People in leadership roles in the publishing industry have a lot of responsibility to lead the way with diversity and inclusion in the front of their minds. They are responsible for opening doorways and creating space in an industry that’s often been described as opaque or tight-knit. But how can publishers do this the right way, from hiring, in th…

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FOOTBALL FANS, keepy-uppy with these amazing books! ⚽ 28:57

6M ago28:57

28:57

Welcome to a super sporty episode of Book Worms! To kick things off Bex got chatting to Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton all about their new book, The Football Encyclopedia! This book has all the football info a football superfan needs. Alex and Ben are here to tell us about their love for football and how they co-wrote this amazing book. Tom Palmer i…

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