Fascinating Non Fiction

Fascinating Non Fiction

Fascinating Non-Fiction will explore everything from moving memoirs to scientific excavations, family odysseys to travelogues. Highlights include Naga Munchetty exposing the misogyny she discovered to be rife throughout the British healthcare system, smash-hit podcaster Adam Buxton rambling on in his inimitable manner with his new memoir, I Love You, Byeee, indefatigable comedian Ivo Graham extolling the benefits of failure, and Labour politician Diane Abbott discusses her inspirational new memoir, A Woman Like Me.

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Daniel Kehlmann: From Dangerous Illusions

Saturday 9 August 13:30 - 14:30

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Hollywood to Nazi Germany, Garbo to Goebbels - The Director is Daniel Kehlmann's imaginative take on the eminent filmmaker G W Pabst and the heady entanglement of art, politics, and power at the peak of the Nazi regime…
 

Krystal Evans: From the Ashes

Saturday 9 August 14:45 - 15:45

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Evans' memoir shares how she went from the ashes of disaster to centre stage in a true story that's dark, heartbreaking, inspiring, and hilarious (often all at once)…
 

Robert Macfarlane: Is A River Alive?

Saturday 9 August 15:15 - 16:15

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Robert Macfarlane's radiant writing on nature, people, and place is in a class unto itself, and the Guardian has slated Is a River Alive? as the biggest publishing event of 2025…
 

Linder & Marina Warner: Gimme Danger

Saturday 9 August 16:30 - 17:30

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Linder is one of Britain's great pop­culture provocateurs: a post-punk musician and widely exhibited photocollage artist. Here she'll collide in discussion with the great, Booker Prize-shortlisted feminist writer Marina Warner on subjects including…
 

Jonathan Watts: Dom Phillips’ How to Save the Amazon

Sunday 10 August 10:15 - 11:15

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Today we speak to Jonathan Watts, the Guardian's global environment editor, to celebrate Phillips' life and work…
 

Olia Hercules: A Taste of Ukrainian History

Sunday 10 August 10:30 - 11:30

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When Russia launched its most recent invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian chef Olia Hercules decided it was finally time to tell her story…
 

Sunil Amrith: The Burning Earth

Sunday 10 August 12:00 - 13:00

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In The Burning Earth, environmental historian at Yale University and MacArthur Genius fellow Sunil Amrith creates an ambitiously complete history of the way 500 years of human development has driven environmental change and destruction…
 

Marina Warner: A Place of Sanctuary

Sunday 10 August 14:45 - 15:45

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Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Marina Warner joins us today to ask profound and urgent questions about the right to safety, home, freedom of movement, and peace…
 

Uilleam Blacker & Olesya Khromeychuk: The Ukraine Shelf

Sunday 10 August 16:30 - 17:30

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As the war in Ukraine continues, The Ukraine Shelf podcast brings together leading authors, scholars, and journalists for lively and informed discussions about what we should be reading to better understand Ukraine and its place in the world during this…
 

Yiyun Li: A New Alphabet, A New Vocabulary

Sunday 10 August 17:00 - 18:00

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Yiyun Li is one of our most important authors, whose life has been touched by unthinkable tragedy. In this impactful conversation she'll reflect on finding words to say the difficult things, how grief transforms time, and the power of the verb 'to be'…