The Shakespeare and Company Interview
Hosted by Adam Biles and Ella Griffiths · Shakespeare and Company
4.9from 205 ratings
- 215
- Episodes
- 15
- Transcribed
- 205
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About The Shakespeare and Company Interview
Discover your next favourite book, or take a deep dive into the mind of an author you love, with The Shakespeare and Company Interview podcast. Now also the home of Editions: A Shakespeare and Company x Faber Production. Long-form interviews with internationally acclaimed authors, recorded from our bookshop in the heart of Paris. Hosted by S&Co Literary Director, Adam Biles. Discover all our upcoming events here (https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/events). If you enjoy these conversations, you can order The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews here ( https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/7955486/the-shakespeare-and-company-book-of-interviews). Past guests include: Ottessa Moshfegh, Ian McEwan, Ali Smith, Hari Kunzru, Rachel Kushner, Katie Kitamura, Elif Shafak, Claire-Louiose Bennett, Leïla Simoni, Ian Dunt, David Runciman, Richard Powers, Eimear McBride, Armando Iannucci, Lauren Grodd, Lauren Elkin, Recebcca Solnit, John Berger, Hollie McNish, Michael Pedersen, Rob Doyle, Philippe Sands, George Saunders, Edouard Louis, Rachel Cusk, Preti Taneja, Alejandro Zambra, DBC Pierre, Meg Mason, Sandra Newman, David Simon, Joshua Cohen, Geoff Dyer, David Wallce-Wells, Emul Saint-John Mandel, Mohsin Hamid, Tess Gunty, A.M. Homes, John Higgs, Miriam Toews, Kamila Shamsie, Annie Ernaux, William Boyd, David Keenan, Jonathan Coe, Coco Mellors, Tom Mustill, Jeanette Winterson, Sarah Churchwell, Katy Hessel, Don Paterson, Elizabeth McCracken, Meena Kandasamy, Aleksandar Hemon, Catherine Lacey, Xiaolu Guo, M. John Harrison, Dolly Adderton, Hernan Diaz, Kathryn Scanlan, Ben Lerner, Isabel Waidner, Nick Laird, Adam Thirlwell, Mark O'Connell, Marie Darrieussecq, Jo Ann Beard, C Pam Zhang, Naomi Klein...and many, many more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Shakespeare and Company
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Jun 2020
- Latest episode
- 30 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
15 of 215 episodes have a transcript.
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Big Tech Took Control, with Beeban Kidron
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Dave Eggers: Contrapposto, Craft, and the Case Against AI
2 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Editions - Episode 2 - Illusions with Megan Nolan
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How Big Tech Took Control, with Beeban Kidron
Published 30 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And that has given me the most phenomenal position because on the one hand, I engage very regularly in with some of the labs that are doing the cutting edge work in medicine and science. And that actually gives me the opportunity to say, categorically, we don't have to give up the cure for cancer for AGI. These two things are entirely separate. And literally, you do not need a big, huge frontier model to solve cancer. You need really high quality medical data to solve cancer, quite narrow data. and specific and not full of slop. So I got involved in all of that, and it was while I was doing that work that the whole thing about scraping copyright became a very public issue in the UK. […]
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- Beeban Kidron
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- Amit Chaudhuri
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- 4.8 / 5
- 98 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 107 ratings
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