Iain’s Book Club Podcast launched in September 2018. Every week (sometimes twice a week), Iain interviews some of the most exciting authors in the country with new books. And there’s the occasional bonus episode or interviews by an author from the archives.
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LIST OF EPISODES
204.Iain Dale
203.Tom Gallagher
202.Tom Harper
201.Vernon Bogdanor
200. George Monbiot
199. Harry Cole and James Heale
198.Roger Mosey
197. Jeffrey Archer
196, David Dimbleby
195, James Schneider
194. Sir Max Hastings
193.James Macintyre
192.Nick Thomas-Symonds
191.Julia Boyd
190. Pablo Gascoigne
189. Konstantin Kisin
188.Paddy Ashdown
187. Dame Joan Collins
186. Shashi Tharoor
185. Silvia Bermann
184. Natasha Devon
183.Christian Wolmar
182. Andrea Leadson
181.Sir Howard Davies
180.Fern Britton
179. Ronan McGreevy
178. Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
177.Tom Bradby
176. Simon Heffer
175.Jeremy Hunt
174. Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson
173. Simon Woolley
172.Bill Browner
171.Giles Whittaker
170. Brand Pack
169.Tony Carr
168.Paddy Ashdown
167. Julian Manyon
166.Alison Colwell
165.Sir Ed Davey
164. Simon Danczuk
163.Michael Crick
162. Justin Webb
161.Kevin Meagher
160.Vince Cable
159.Brian Klaas
158. Nathan’s Law
157.James Hanning
156.Julie Bindel
155. Amanda Prowse and Josiah Hartley
154.Geoff Hoon
153.Gyles Brandreth
152.David Owen
151. Andrew Roberts
150. Dr. Hilary Jones
149. Peter and Steph Shilton
148. Fi Glover and Jane Garvey
147. Sebastian Payne
146.Carole Angier
145. Michel Barnier
144. Steve Richards
143.Ian Dunt
142.Toby Harden
141.Lucy Fisher
140. Alex Deane
139.Duncan Brack
137.Geoff Norcott
136. Ben Rhodes and Mitchell Reiss
135. Ed Husayn
134. Mr. Young
133.Alastair Campbell
132. Mateo D’Ancona
131. Ivan Gibbons
130.Sir David Amess
129. Adrian Brettle
128. Reverend Richard Coles
127.Kate Garraway
126.Jonathan Dimbleby
125.Alan Duncan
124. Hello Pick
123. Sir Anthony Seldon and Mark Garnett
122. Stephen Getins
121.Nicky Campbell
120. Simon Heffer
119. Susannah Heywood
118.Matt Forde
117. Dan Morain
116.James Comey
115. Peter Dickson
114. Best of 2020
113.Alastair Campbell
112. Giles Edwards
111. Jonny Oates
110. Peter Cardwell
109.Chris Bryant
108.Sir Richard Evans
107.Sir Cliff Richard
106.Jeffrey Archer
105.Deborah Mattinson
104.Tom Bower
103. Robert Harris
102. Hashi Mohammed
101.William Dalrymple
100.David Cameron
99. Jeremy Vine
98.Daniel Finkelstein
97.Iain Dale
96.Nina Schick
95. Andrew Adonis
94.Jonathan Porritt
93.Raquel Johnson
92. Dame Jenni Murray (Fat Cow, Fat Chance)
91. Fern Britton (Daughters of Cornwall)
90. Nick Timothy (Reinventing a Nation)
89. Mark Pack (Bad News)
88. Lord Ashcroft (Unfair Play)
87. A brief pause
86. Peter Sissons (When a door closes)
85. Paul Gascoigne (Glorious)
84. Michael Cashman (Autobiography)
83. Sir Anthony Seldon (May at 10)
82. Richard Bradford (Orwell: A Man for Our Time)
81. Gyles Brandreth (Brief Encounters)
80. Paul Lay (Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate)
79. Liam Halligan (Home Truths)
78. Jacqui Smith (Honorable Ladies Vol. 2)
77. John Sweeney and Manuel Delia (Murder on the Malta Express)
76. Asa Bennett (Romanifesto)
75. Dorothy Byrne (Trust me, I’m not a politician)
74. Emma Crewe and Andrew Walker (An Extraordinary Scandal)
73. Mark Bright (My Story)
72. Douglas Murray (Crowd Madness)
COUSIN. Naomi Klein (On Fire)
71. Charles Moore (Herself only)
70. Leo McKinstrey (Attlee and Churchill: allies in war, adversaries in peace)
69. Matthew Stadlen (How to See Birds)
68. Sir Simon Jenkins (A Brief History of London)
67. Jonathan Rugman (The Consulate Murder)
66. Patrick Kidd (The weak have been in politics a long time)
65. Jason Webster (Violence – A new history of Spain: past, present and future of the West)
64. Tim Bale (Footsoldiers – Political Party Affiliation in the 21st Century)
63. Simon Heffer (Looking at God – Britain in the Great War)
62. Alexander Lebedev (Banker’s Hunt – Confessions of a former Russian oligarch)
61. Gyles Brandreth (Dancing in the Moonlight)
60. Jeffrey Archer (No Chance)
59. Max Hastings (Chastise: The Dam Busters Story 1943)
58. Matthew Syed (Rogue Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking)
57. Edward Stourton & Lode Desmet (Blind Man’s Brexit: How the EU took control of Brexit)
56. Steve Richards (Prime Ministers)
55. Jack Brown (No. 10: The Geography of Power in Downing Street)
54. Rod Liddle (The Great Brexit Betrayal)
53. Jack Straw (The English Job)
52. Jesse Norman (Adam Smith: What He Thought And Why It Matters)
51. Owen Bennett (Michael Gove: Man in a Hurry)
50. Kirsty Wark (The House by the Lake)
49. Talat Ahmed & Kavita Puri (Mohandas Gandhi & Partition Voices)
BONUS: Lord Maurice Glasman
48. Peter Riddell (15 Minutes of Power)
47. Sir Ian Kennedy (Clearing Up the Clutter)
46. Ayesha Hazarika and Tom Hamilton (Punch and Judy Politics)
45. Tom Bradby (Secret Service)
BONUS: David Blanchflower (Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?)
44. Peter Caddick-Adams (Sand and Stone)
43. Jacob Rees-Mogg (The Victorians)
42. Camilla Cavendish (overtime)
41. David Laws (Who Killed Lord Kitchener)
40. Paul Mason (A Bright and Clear Future)
39. Tim Bouverie (Appeasement)
38. Emily Maitlis (Airhead)
37. Ben Elton (Identity Crisis)
36. Anita Anand (The Killer Patient)
35. Damian Barr (You’ll Be Safe Here)
34. Chris Mullin (Harry Perkins’ Friends)
33. Katie Price and Fern Britton
32. Robin Renwick (not so diplomatic)
31. Rachel Reeves (Westminster Women)
30. Tom Bower (Dangerous Hero – Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power)
29. Theo Barclay (Fighters & Quitters: Great Political Resignations) and Caroline Slocock (People Like Us – Margaret Thatcher and Me)
BONUS: Macer Gifford, the British urban trader who went to fight ISIS in Syria
28. Tim Waterstone (The face pressed against a window)
27. Sir John Nott (Memorable Encounters)
26. William Keegan (Nine Crises)
BONUS Joan Collins
25. Barbara Taylor Bradford (Master of her destiny)
24. Johann Hari (The Missing Connection)
Joan Rivers BONUS
23. General Stanley McChrystal (Leaders)
BONUS Best of 2018
22. William Clegg (Under the Wig), Jessica Douglas Home (William Simmonds) and Sir Simon Jenkins (A Brief History of Europe)
21. Pete May (Goodbye to the Boleyn), Brian Williams (Home from Home) and Robert Banks (An Irrational Hatred of Everything)
BONUS Mark Urban (The Skripal Files)
20: Philip Cowley (2017 British General Election), Tim Shipman (All Out War), Tom McTague (Betting the House)
19. James O’Brien (How to Be Right)
18. Lewis Goodall (Presumed Dead), Francis Beckett (Corbyn and the Strange Revival of Labor England) and Stephen Kinnock (Spirit of Britain, Purpose of Labor)
Baroness Trumpington BONUS
17. Dan Snow (On This Day in History), Caroline Shenton (Mr. Barry’s War) and Kamal Ahmed (The Life and Times of a Very British Man)
16. Mary Portas (Work Like a Woman)
15. Barbara Hosking (Exceeding my Brief) and Stanley Underhill (Exceeding the Black Country)
14. Gyles Brandreth (Have you eaten grandma?)
13. Jeffrey Archer (Heads, You Win)
12. Andrew Roberts (Churchill: Walking with Fate) and Christopher Lee (Carrington: An Honorable Man)
11. Kate Williams (Rival Queens), Robert Hardman (Queen of the World) and Penny Junor (All the Queen’s Corgis)
10. Giles and Mary from Gogglebox (The Diary of Two Nobodies)
9. Isabel Hardman (Why We Have the Wrong Politicians), Philip Collins (Starting Over: How We Can Fix Our Broken Policies), and Tom Baldwin (Control, Alt, Delete)
8. Jeremy Thompson (Breaking News) and Mark Austin (And thanks for watching)
7. John Simpson (Midnight Moscow) and Paddy Ashdown (Nein)
BONUS Tim Tate (Hitler’s British Traitors), Robert Hutton (Agent Jack), Bernard Cornwell (Wolf War), Nick Spindler (Layman’s Guide to Space)
6. Kevin Keegan (My Life in Soccer)
BONUS Alastair Campbell (Diaries Vol 7)
5. Derek Draper (Create Space) and Max Foster (Coutology)
4. Max Hastings (Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy)
3. Sebastian Faulks (Paris Echo), Alan Johnson (In My Life) and June Bernicoff (Leo & June: Our Story)
2. Dreda Say Mitchell (Blood Secrets), Amanda Prowse (The Coordinates of Life) and Judith O’Reilly (Killing State)
1. Jacqui Smith (Honorable Ladies), Sophy Ridge (The Women Who Shaped Politics) and Gina Miller (Rise)
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