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The Hatchards Podcast

By: Ryan Edgington and Matt Hennessey
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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 and Matt Hennessey.
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Episodes
  • Griffin Dunne on The Friday Afternoon Club: Joan Didion, Dominick Dunne, and His Days in Hollywood

    Griffin Dunne on The Friday Afternoon Club: Joan Didion, Dominick Dunne, and His Days in Hollywood
    Jul 16 2024
    On this episode, we were joined by actor and writer Griffin Dunne to discuss The Friday Afternoon Club, his fascinating memoir of his famous family – among them writers Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne – and his remarkable career in Hollywood starring in films like Martin Scorsese's After Hours and An American Werewolf in London.

    We also discuss his lifelong friendship with the late Carrie Fisher, and what it was like to watch his best friend and flatmate be propelled to unimaginable fame after she starred as Princess Leia in Star Wars.

    Finally, Griffin provides insights into how he navigated writing the great tragedy of his family history: the murder of his sister Dominique at 22-years-old, she too on the cusp of cinematic stardom.

    Signed copies of the book are available to purchase at our London Piccadilly location as well as on our website.
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    50 mins
  • Lauren Elkin on Scaffolding: Fidelity, Freedom, and the French New Wave

    Lauren Elkin on Scaffolding: Fidelity, Freedom, and the French New Wave
    Jul 2 2024
    On this episode, we were joined by author Lauren to discuss her hypnotising debut novel, 'Scaffolding', which charts the lives of two couples, both living in the same Paris apartment almost fifty years apart.

    Lauren spoke to us about the decades-long journey towards bringing this novel to life, and how her career as a translator and non-fiction writer allowed her to freedom to craft this book in precisely the way she envisioned it.

    We also spoke about monogamy and relationships, and how the novel was crafted 'in the key of Eric Rohmer,' the idiosyncratic 20th-century filmmaker who told Paris-set stories following the romantic and moral conflicts of glamorous young people.
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    48 mins
  • Richard Flanagan on Question 7: HG Wells, Hiroshima, and How to Live

    Richard Flanagan on Question 7: HG Wells, Hiroshima, and How to Live
    Jun 11 2024
    On this episode, we were joined by Booker Prize-winning author Richard Flanagan to discuss his fascinating new memoir, 'Question 7', a meditation on the decisions that we make and the reverberating effects that these choices can have on the course of history.

    Richard spoke to us about why he feels that books must exist outside the moral grammar, and why good readers are as important as good writers.

    He shared amusing anecdotes about a life spent on the road promoting his work, and his dissatisfaction with living in cities – where value is placed on the man-made over the natural world.

    Finally, he contemplates the difficult question of whether he would even be sitting across from us had the atom bomb not been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, freeing his father after years of back-breaking work in a Japanese POW camp.

    'Question 7' has been chosen as the Hatchards Non-Fiction Book of the Month for June. Signed copies can be purchased across our three shops as well as on our website.
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    34 mins
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