Show overview
Booknotes+ has been publishing since 2021, and across the 5 years since has built a catalogue of 289 episodes, alongside 2 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 310 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 2m and 1h 8m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Arts show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 6 days ago, with 33 episodes already out so far this year. Published by C-SPAN.
From the publisher
Taking the concept from Brian Lamb's long running Booknotes TV program, the podcast offers listeners more books and authors. Booknotes+ features a mix of new interviews with authors and historians, along with some old favorites from the archives. The platform may be different, but the goal is the same – give listeners the opportunity to learn something new.
Latest Episodes
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Ted Widmer, "The Living Declaration"
Valerie Fridland, "Why We Talk Funny"
Claudia Rowe, "Wards of the State"
Richard Brookhiser, "The Hero Returns"
Michael Cullinane, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet"
David Garrow on Martin Luther King, Jr. & Barack Obama
Lerone Bennett Jr., "Forced Into Glory"
Lois Romano, "An Inconvenient Widow"
Danny Funt, "Everybody Loses"
Theo Baker, "How to Rule the World"
Harvey Mansfield, "Where Harvard Went Wrong"
Bruce Nichols, "The Emerson Circle"
Craig Fehrman, "This Vast Enterprise"
Antony Beevor, "Rasputin"
Bob Crawford, "America's Founding Son"
Giles Tremlett, "El Generalísimo"
Giles Tremlett is a biographer, a narrative historian, and a journalist based in Madrid, Spain. He was born in Plymouth, England, in 1962, but since graduating from Oxford University has almost continuously lived in Spain. His latest book is titled "El Generalísimo," a biography of the late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. Supported by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, Franco rose to power by defeating the loyalists in the Spanish Civil War that lasted from 1936 to 1939. He then controlled the Spanish government until his death in 1975. He was a strong supporter of national Catholicism and a strong opponent of democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices