The Hatchards Podcast is a conversation show about books brought to you by England’s oldest bookshop. Featuring interviews with some of our favourite authors, bookish waffle, and the occasional glass of wine. Hosted by Ryan Edgington. Produced by Lily Woods and Matt Hennessey.
The Hatchards Podcast
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71 episodes
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The Hatchards Podcast is a conversation show about books brought to you by England’s oldest bookshop. Featuring interviews with some of our favourite authors, bookish waffle, and the occasional glass of wine. Hosted by Ryan Edgington. Produced by Lily Woods and Matt Hennessey.
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Recent Episodes
July 21, 2026
David Sedaris on The Land and Its People: AI, Americans Abroad, and the Absurdities of Being Human
On this episode, we’re joined by <b>David Sedaris</b>, one of the most celebrated modern essayists, to discuss his latest collection, <a href="https://www.hatchards.co.uk/book/the-land-and-its-people-hatchards-signed-edition/david-sedaris/2001797015138" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><i>The Land and Its People</i></a>, which has been chosen as our <b>Hatchards Nonfiction Book of the Month</b> for July. <br /><br />It continues his decades long exploration of life's absurdities—both the comic and the painful—transforming them into essays about everything from generative AI, to having a priest's cassock tailor-made for him in Vatican City.<br /><br />He also reflects on being a godparent, outliving old friends, and the unlikely path that took him from dead-end jobs and substance abuse to becoming one of America's best-loved comic voices.<br /><br /><b>Hosted by Ryan Edgington. Produced by Lily Woods. </b>
June 16, 2026
Kathryn Stockett on The Calamity Club: Sisterhood in the American South
On this episode, we're joined by author <b>Kathryn Stockett </b>to discuss her new novel, <b><i>The Calamity Club,</i></b> which follows a group of remarkable women as they confront the reactionary social, cultural, and economic forces that defined much of the American South during the Great Depression.<br /><br />It has been 17 years since Stockett published <b><i>The Help</i></b>, one of the defining publishing successes of its era, and she shares with us the anxiety she felt returning to this world after writing a wildly successful, albeit controversial, literary phenomenon. She explains why, this time around, she attempted—and failed—to write a follow-up book that was less likely to become a cultural lightning rod.<br /><br />For all of <b><i>The Calamity Club</i></b>'s stifling Mississippi heat and small-town prejudice, the predominant feeling readers are left with is joy. That's because this sweeping story is leavened by the voices of two of the funniest and most fully realised characters you're likely to encounter in any book this year. <br /><br />Hosted by Ryan Edgington. Produced by Lily Woods and Matt Hennessey.
May 5, 2026
Edward Chisholm on Murder in Paris ’68: Film Stars, French Presidents, and a Fatal Cover-Up
On this episode, we are joined by Edward Chisholm, author of our Non-Fiction <a href="https://www.hatchards.co.uk/highlights/books-of-the-month" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Book of the Month</a> for May, <a href="https://www.hatchards.co.uk/book/murder-in-paris-68/edward-chisholm/9781800962675" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><b><i>Murder in Paris ’68</i></b>.</a> This gripping French crime saga uncovers a vast criminal conspiracy surrounding cinema icon Alain Delon, who was once accused of murdering his friend and bodyguard, Stevan Marković.<br /><br />The so-called 'Marković Affair' entangled figures ranging from organised crime to President Georges Pompidou, and Chisholm draws on still-classified material and the defining films of the era to revisit a moment of glamour, corruption, and cultural change.<br /><br />Hosted by Ryan Edgington. Produced by Lily Woods and Matthew Hennessey.
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