The Penguin Podcast

Penguin Podcast 45 - Topical Specialness

Today's special edition of the Penguin Podcast features Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl's barnstorming debut novel. The first episode is here, but head over to the Short History website from 4 June to download the other 13 episodes every night from 9pm. 

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Penguin Podcast 44 - Audiobook Special

Welcome to the Penguin podcast, where today we preview two of our top spring audiobook titles, Booker prize-winning The Inheritance of Loss and the highly-awaited Two Caravans, follow up to bestselling A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian. 

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Penguin Podcast 43 - The Teleconference

Welcome to the Penguin podcast, where today we're proud to present an experimental interview with Joshua Ferris, author of the celebrated debut novel Then We Came to the End. Enjoy. 

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Penguin Podcast 42 - Air War

Welcome to the Penguin podcast, today featuring an extraordinary interview with a former RAF airman who describes evading capture after his bomber was shot down during WW2. The other side of the air war is presented by Niall Ferguson who describes the human toll of the allied bombing campaigns.

Sorry if the audio is a bit echo-ey this week - we're playing with some new kit and should have learned how to use it for the next episode ;-)
 

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Penguin Podcast 41 - Space is the Place

Welcome to the Penguin podcast, today featuring a mind-bending interview with John Gribbin, author of The Universe: A Biography and a ten-minute track from Penguin Remixed, called Symbiosis Dreaming Mix, by Invisible System.
 

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Penguin Podcast 40 - The Mixing Bowl

Welcome to the Penguin podcast, today featuring an exclusive interview with TV chef Jo Pratt and novelist Clare Clark reading from her brand new book, The Nature of Monsters.
 

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Penguin Podcast 39 - Pressing the right buttons

Today's podcast features an interview with Stefan McGrath, Managing Director of the Penguin Press which publishes serious non-fiction, Penguin Classics and Penguin Reference books, Stefan picks out some highlights for the year ahead, looks back at last years Classics' birthday celebration and tells us where he gets his ideas from.
 

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Penguin Podcast 38 - Generally Speaking

Welcome to the Penguin podcast, today bringing you a special interview with Tom Weldon, Managing Director of Penguin's General Division. Tom discusses some of the books he hopes will be flying off the bookshelves in 2007 and gives some general thoughts on publishing trends.
 

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Penguin Podcast 37 - Ghost Mapping

Welcome to the Penguin podcast, today bringing you an exclusive interview with polymath Steven Johnson, whose new book The Ghost Map has been described as ‘a challenging and exciting work which removes historical nonfiction from the heritage industry and puts it back into lively, impassioned debate.’ Here Steven discusses his book, the nature of cities and communities and how blogging ties them both together...
 

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Penguin Podcast 36 - Monkey Business

Welcome to a podcast extra featuring Gorillaz, whose Rise of the Ogre audiobook is available exclusively on iTunes from today.

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