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"My Animals and Other Family" by Clare Balding

Joe Donahue — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:30:00 +0000

Clare Balding is an award-winning BBC broadcaster and writer. At the London Olympics of 2012 she was proclaimed a “national treasure.'” She became the face of the BBC’s horse racing coverage in 1998, and now works across a wide range of sports. She will join us to tell tales from her new memoir, My Animals and Other Family.

Listener Essay - The Firm

Jeanne Hunter — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:50:00 +0000

In this listener essay, Jeanne Hunter recounts her personal dealings with the British Royal Family.

"The Art of Betrayal: The Secret History of MI6" by Gordon Corera

Joe Donahue — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:10:00 +0000

Gordon Corera is a security correspondent for BBC News. In that role, he covers the work of Britain's intelligence agencies. His new book is The Art of Betrayal: The Secret History of MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service - in it, he provides a unique and unprecedented insight into this secret world and the reality that lies behind the fiction.

"To Marry and English Lord"

Joe Donahue — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:12:00 +0000

With Downton Abbey is all the Public Television rage, the book – To Marry an English Lord is back in print and being lauded as source material by the show’s creator, Julian Fellowes.

The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People

Joe Donahue — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:35:00 +0000

John Kelly’s new book about the Irish Potato Famine is deeply researched, compelling in its details, and startling in its conclusions about the appalling decisions behind a tragedy of epic proportions.

It started in 1845 and before it was over more than one million men, women, and children would die and another two million would flee the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was the worst disasters in the nineteenth century—it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War.

Her Majesty: Queen Elizabeth II and her Court

Joe Donahue — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:47:08 +0000

Robert Hardman discusses his book, Her Majesty: Queen Elizabeth II and her Court.

That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

Joe Donahue — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:35:00 +0000

We speak with Anne Sebba about her book, That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor.