Christine Toomey with Julia Wheeler

Julia Wheeler talks to  author and award-winning journalist Christine Toomey about her two year odyssey into the world of modern Buddhism, and asks why thousands of women from all over the world seem to be embracing the Eastern philosophy. Continue reading Christine Toomey with Julia Wheeler

James Crawford with John McCarthy

Buildings reflect the world around them and the people who build them – their values and aspirations. Like people, sooner or later, they die. As historical structures face destruction by both seemingly benevolent and deliberately malevolent forces, James Crawford shares with John McCarthy the biographies of some of the world’s most important buildings we’ve lost along the way. Continue reading James Crawford with John McCarthy

Horatio Clare with Julia Wheeler

Horatio Clare weaves a few yarns about his travels aboard ocean-going container ships on the high seas, as told in his Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year (in association with the Authors’ Club), Down to the Sea in Ships.

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Tim Anderson and Shelina Permalloo with Julia Wheeler

We all know that one of the best reasons to travel is to tantalise your taste-buds with foreign flavours. Tim Anderson (restauranteur and winner of Masterchef 2011) and Shelina Permalloo (Cookery author and winner of Masterchef 2012) took us on a culinary tour bound to banish any remaining New Year’s Resolutions. Continue reading Tim Anderson and Shelina Permalloo with Julia Wheeler