Episodes

  • Faiqa Mansab on the tradition of Sufi storytelling

    Faiqa Mansab on the tradition of Sufi storytelling
    Jun 4 2025

    Author of The Sufi Storyteller Faiqa joined Boundless Junior Editor Sadia Nowshin to discuss the beauty of Sufi stories, how classic Western literature might have been inspired by the tradition, and the love and pain of mother-child relationships.


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    19 mins
  • Building the Brooklyn Bridge with Erica Wagner

    Building the Brooklyn Bridge with Erica Wagner
    May 30 2025

    Erica Wagner talks to Patrick Galbraith about her book Chief Engineer, which was published by Bloomsbury in 2017.


    They discuss Washington Roebling, the man who built the bridge, and his extraordinarily prescient understanding of engineering. It isn't just a story about metal and rock but it's a story about fathers and sons and it captures, in tremendous detail, a time of great change. There was, for instance, a ferry company that tried to sue when the bridge was built.

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    24 mins
  • Alison Bechdel on capitalism, representation, and her comic novel Spent

    Alison Bechdel on capitalism, representation, and her comic novel Spent
    May 23 2025

    Alison Bechdel joins Erica Wagner to chat about her new comic novel Spent, writing a new kind of autobiography, and learning new things.


    Spent by Alison Bechdel was published by Jonathan Cape on 22nd May 2025 (£22) and is available for preorder now

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    20 mins
  • Hedgelayer and writer Richard Negus on the disconnect between the urban and rural

    Hedgelayer and writer Richard Negus on the disconnect between the urban and rural
    May 16 2025

    Patrick Galbraith talks to Richard Negus about hedgelaying, nature writing, and the disconnect between the urban and rural sphere.


    Richard’s debut book, Words From the Hedge: A hedge layer’s view of the English Countryside, was published by Unbound on May Day.

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    30 mins
  • Shelley Fisher Fishkin on what Mark Twain would say of politics today

    Shelley Fisher Fishkin on what Mark Twain would say of politics today
    May 9 2025
    Shelley Fisher Fishkin speaks to Boundless Editor-at-Large Erica Wagner about the enduring relevance and influence of Mark Twain — and how his words can still be used to apply to American politics today over a century since his death.

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    26 mins
  • Patrick Galbraith on what the land actually means

    Patrick Galbraith on what the land actually means
    Apr 30 2025
    Patrick Galbraith and Erica Wagner talk about Patrick’s unexpectedly controversial new book, Uncommon Ground, which explores land access throughout Britain. From naturism to fox hunting to magic mushroom picking and farming, Uncommon Ground has been called “a raking survey of England”

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    24 mins
  • Elizabeth Garner on folk tales and liminal spaces

    Elizabeth Garner on folk tales and liminal spaces
    Apr 23 2025

    Erica Wagner talks to Elizabeth Garner about folklore, and Erica and Patrick Galbraith discuss Elizabeth’s piece for Boundless on a well that sits in the garden at her childhood home.


    Erica and Patrick also discuss Patrick’s new book Uncommon Ground.

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    27 mins
  • Lamorna Ash on the rise of young people turning to religion

    Lamorna Ash on the rise of young people turning to religion
    Apr 16 2025

    Patrick Galbraith talks to Lamorna Ash, the author of Don't Forget We're Here Forever which will be published shortly by Bloomsbury, about the rise of interest in religion among young people in Britain. That's the topic of her book, which also looks at conversion and Lamorna's own relationship with Christianity.



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    32 mins