This week we have an interview with Christie Henry , who’s director of Princeton University Press . She joined PUP two years ago in September 2017, after twenty-four years at the University of Chicago Press , where she was Editorial Director for Sciences, Social Sciences, and Reference Publishing. In the course of our conversation, Christie mentioned that she thought university presses had some ‘reputational work' to do. I asked her to expand on this: Christie Henry Specific to PUP, the reputati...
Sep 10, 2019•33 min•Ep. 50
This week, Georgian London as you’ve never experienced it before: populated with animals, pullulating with animals – pigs snuffling in the dirt recycling the city’s waste; herds of sheep and cattle, thousands of them each week, being driven through the streets to and from Smithfield market; horses being used for every form of transport and playing a key part in old and new industries; barking guard dogs protecting property from prowling burglars. Londoners lived cheek by jowl with their animals:...
Aug 25, 2019•34 min•Ep. 49
This week, a new life of Geoffrey Chaucer , the fourteenth-century poet who is regarded as a father of English literature, though that's a stereotype my guest, Marion Turner , wants to ditch. Marion Turner I think a lot of the ways that we think about Chaucer now are very problematic. Particularly the idea of ‘the father of English literature', which immediately makes people think he's a bit boring, that he's an old man and a patriarch, and that he's didactic. In fact, that's the opposite of wha...
Aug 01, 2019•38 min•Ep. 48
This week we have the director’s cut of an interview with Caroline Priday , who’s Global Promotions Director for Princeton University Press , and head of their European office in Woodstock, near Oxford. (Extracts from this interview featured in the podcast marking Princeton’s European office’s 20th birthday recently and longer interviews with other participants in that programme will appear in the next few months, including an extensive interview with the Press’s director, Christie Henry.) When ...
Jul 25, 2019•17 min•Ep. 47
This week, we ask, are Britain and France still trapped in their own myth-making about their colonial pasts? My guest on the programme is Robert Gildea, who is professor… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 17, 2019•45 min•Ep. 46
This week’s programme is rather unusual: it has six guests rather than one. To mark the twentieth birthday of Princeton University Press‘s European office in Woodstock, near Oxford, I spoke… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 01, 2019•36 min•Ep. 45
This week the Hedgehog and the Fox explore four centuries in the afterlife of Joan of Arc. Our guest, Gail Orgelfinger, is a medievalist by training and a founding member… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 25, 2019•31 min•Ep. 44
This week, another in our series of Conversations with Translators. And with my guest Tim Allen, we move for the first time (at last) beyond European languages. I’m always interested… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 24, 2019•38 min•Ep. 43
This week, the Hedgehog and the Fox explore the benefits of speaking more than one language in the company of science writer Marek Kohn. Marek has recently published a book… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 15, 2019•40 min•Ep. 42
This week, the Hedgehog and the Fox investigate the origins of human musicality by looking for musical ability and perception in other animals, including rhesus macaques, zebra finches, a cockatoo… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 29, 2019•34 min•Ep. 41
This week, we launch a new series, Conversations with Publishers. It seems to me that being curious about books needn’t stop at the people who write them; it can also… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 12, 2019•35 min•Ep. 40
My guest this week is Mark Polizzotti, author notably of a biography of surrealist André Breton; publisher at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and acclaimed translator from French of books… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 30, 2019•40 min•Ep. 39
This week we’re focusing on one of the nineteenth century’s most successful and influential writers, Victor Hugo. By the time of his death in 1885, Hugo was undoubtedly the most… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 14, 2019•32 min•Ep. 38
This week we tackle a big question with my guest Tim Ingold: what’s the point of anthropology? Tim tells me: ‘Anthropology should be an ethical project which is dedicated to… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 06, 2019•31 min•Ep. 37
This week the Hedgehog and the Fox turn their curiosity on books themselves, indeed on a book entitled The Book by Amaranth Borsuk, which appears in the MIT Essential Knowledge… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 26, 2019•36 min•Ep. 36
I was in Stockholm for the first time a few weeks before Christmas, so I was intrigued when I recently came across a new book about a study that’s followed… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 18, 2019•28 min•Ep. 35
In the first Hedgehog & Fox podcast of 2019, we grapple with some big questions – does history matter? If so, why? And is it, and other forms of knowledge,… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 31, 2019•36 min•Ep. 34
My guest in this week’s programme is Paul Luna, who’s the author of a recent book on typography in the Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press. Paul is… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 21, 2018•35 min•Ep. 33
This week the Hedgehog and the Fox examine the humble postcard. In fact, when the postcard was new it was anything but humble, as Monica Cure, my guest on today’s… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 11, 2018•31 min•Ep. 32
A few weeks ago, I put up an interview with Anne O’Neill-Henry about her book Mastering the Marketplace, which examines the dawn of the era of the bestseller in nineteenth-century… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 02, 2018•30 min•Ep. 31
This week the hedgehog and the fox explore literary anonymity in the company of John Mullan – not the sort of anonymity where the author’s name has simply been lost… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 19, 2018•24 min•Ep. 30
This week The Hedgehog & the Fox go looking for those much-despised denizens of our urban landscape, gulls, in the company of writer, birdwatcher and radio producer Tim Dee. Gulls… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 10, 2018•30 min•Ep. 29
This week the hedgehog and the fox are in the company of philosopher Julian Baggini and we are in pursuit of no less a question than how the world thinks… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 02, 2018•34 min
This week the hedgehog and the fox venture out into that time of day that the French call between the dog and the wolf, in other words, in the fading… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 26, 2018•31 min
In this week’s programme I talk to Danny Dorling about inequality, its causes and consequences. Danny is professor of geography at the University of Oxford. In his latest book, Peak… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 18, 2018•42 min
In France in the 1830s many of the features of the commercial publishing world we know today were coming into being: celebrity authors, runaway bestsellers, commercially minded publishers, copycat trends,… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 09, 2018•28 min
In this week’s programme we’re exploring the concept of wonder in the company of science writer Caspar Henderson, author of A New Map of Wonders. One reviewer called the book… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 01, 2018•28 min
In this the first programme in the new autumn season, the Hedgehog and the Fox go in search of bats, in the company of Tessa Laird. Tessa, who teaches at… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 23, 2018•31 min
Leisure, we quickly learn, is the reward for hard work, the chance to recharge before returning to the fray. But idleness is unearned, unjustified, self-indulgent – certainly not something a… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 10, 2018•29 min
This week my guest is Meghan Warner Mettler, who’s an assistant professor of history at Upper Iowa University. Meghan is the author of the recent book, How to Reach… Read More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 03, 2018•36 min
