The London Magazine Podcast

Nov 27 2024 19 ep. 41 mins 2
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A monthly podcast where The London Magazine team speak to brilliant writers, poets and artists about their craft, inspirations and career so far. The London Magazine is the UK's oldest literary journal. Published bi-monthly, it is a review of literature and the arts, est. 1732.

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Joshua Jones

Nov 27 2024 28 mins  
On this episode of The London Magazine Podcast, we talk to Joshua Jones, writer and artist from Llanelli in south Wales. Joshua was a Literature Wales Emerging Writer and a Hay Festival Writer at Work. He has published various poetry pamphlets, including Three Months in the Zebra Room and The City on Film, both out this year. On this episode, we talk to Joshua about his book, Local

Claire Carroll

Jun 06 2024 45 mins  
On this episode of The London Magazine Podcast, we talk to Claire Carroll, a regular London Magazine contributor who writes experimental fiction about the intersection of nature, technology, and desire. She is also a PhD researcher at Bath Spa and Exeter Universities, where she explores how experimental writing – particularly short stories and prose-poetry – can reimagine how h

Orlando Whitfield

May 23 2024 37 mins  
On this episode of The London Magazine Podcast, we talk to Orlando Whitfield, writer and self-proclaimed failed art dealer. Orlando started dealing art while still a student at Goldsmiths, and worked in and around the art world for fifteen years. His writing has appeared in the The Paris Review and The White Review, among other places. Orlando joins us to talk about his new book: A

Dan Sperrin

Jan 19 2024 45 mins  
On this episode of The London Magazine Podcast, we talk to Dan Sperrin. Dan is a Junior Research Fellow in English at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and The London Magazine's political cartoonist. He predominantly works on satire and satirists, with a special interest in the period 1660-1760. Dan talks to us about the state of satire in modern Britain, David Cameron's ro

Vida Adamczweski

Dec 22 2023 52 mins  
Please be aware that this episode contains discussions of abortion and strong language. On this episode of The London Magazine Podcast, we talk to writer Vida Adamczewski. Vida's writing has appeared in Ambit Magazine, Document Journal, Vittles and The Mays. In July 2021, a staged reading of Vida’s debut lyric play AMPHIBIAN was performed at the Playmill New Writers Festival at t

Patrick Cash

Nov 03 2023 40 mins  
On this episode of The London Magazine Podcast, we speak to Patrick Cash. Patrick holds a Masters in Creative Writing from Oxford and spent three months as writer-in-residence at Shakespeare & Company, Paris. He’s had two plays published by Bloomsbury and written for Vice, Dazed and Attitude. His writing has been selected for the BBC Drama Room and The London Library’s Emer

Tom Conaghan

Oct 06 2023 32 mins  
On this episode of The London Magazine podcast, we speak to Tom Conaghan. Tom is the publisher of Scratch Books - a small press dedicated to the craft of the short story. Tom's reviews and essays have appeared in The Observer, The TLS, The Irish Times, The LA Review of Books, amongst others. And, most importantly, Tom is a judge for our 2023 Short Story Prize. We spoke to him about

Jiaqi Kang

Jul 14 2023 48 mins  
On this episode of The London Magazine podcast, we speak to Jiaqi Kang. Jiaqi is currently a DPhil candidate in Art History candidate at the University of Oxford and founding editor-in-chief of Sine Theta, an international, print-based creative arts magazine for the Sino diaspora. Last year, they won The White Review Short Story Prize with 'Class of 1985', commended as "a story tha

Phoebe Hurst

Jun 30 2023 38 mins  
On this episode of The London Magazine podcast, we speak to Phoebe Hurst. Phoebe is currently an assistant editor at the Guardian and is a former managing editor at VICE. Her short fiction has previously been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and longlisted for the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize. We spoke to her about her new story, 'The Dump', as feature

Ella Griffiths

Mar 27 2023 25 mins  
On this episode of The London Magazine Podcast, we speak with Ella Griffiths. Ella is an editor at Faber & Faber and the person behind the wonderful Faber Editions series. We chatted about her foreword to 'The Shutter of Snow' in our Feb/March issue of the magazine, the origins of Faber Editions itself and what the Faber archive is really like. Subscribe to The London Magazine