The Book Club
The Book Club
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Literary interviews and discussions on the latest releases in the world of publishing, from poetry through to physics. Presented weekly by Sam Leith.
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The podcast covers a wide range of topics related to literature and culture, often focusing on new releases in various fields, such as poetry, history, and science. Episodes explore subjects like the significance of the aerobiome in Carl Zimmer's work on airborne microbes, historical narratives of India in William Dalrymple's storytelling, and the impacts of reading on personal development with insights from authors like Lucy Mangan.
Literary interviews and discussions on the latest releases in the world of publishing, from poetry through to physics. Presented weekly by Sam Leith.
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is science writer Carl Zimmer, whose new book Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe explores the invisible world of the aerobiome – the trillions of microbes and particles we inhale every day. He tells me how Louis Pasteur’s glacier experiments kicked off a forgotten scientific journey; how Cold War fears turned airborne research into a bioweapons race; and why the COVID-19 pandemic exposed a century-long misunderstanding about how diseases spread through the air.
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