The Oh, God!

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a podcast that gives new life to old books.

We are here today for our Christmas episode

in the London Review Book Shop in London.

A place which I noted on Trip Advisors no less as an essential part of the capital's cultural life.

Well, we shall see.

I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of Unbound,

the platform where readers crowd fund the books they really want to read.

I'm Andy Miller, author of the year of reading dangerously and joining us today are Hillary

Spirling, one of this country's most respected biographers and literary

editors. Her books have won multiple awards,

including the 2005 Whitbread Book of the Year

for Matise the Master, the second volume of her life of the artist.

She is also the official biographer,

as luck would habit of the novelist Anthony Pole.

An amazing quote.

And her book, Anthony Pole, Dancing to the Music Time, was published to Universal Claim last year.

Hillary is also the author of invitation to the dance, an invaluable handbook for anyone preparing a podcast on the dance to the musical

time.

And also for readers of the 12-volume novel sequence that the author himself described this book as quote a master key.

Delight to be joined by Philip Hensher, the novelist and book reviewer.

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