The Boundless Podcast

Patrick Galbraith and Erica Wagner talk about Patrick’s unexpectedly controversial new book, Uncommon Ground, which explores land access throughout Britain. From naturism to fox hunting to magic mushroom picking and...

<p>Erica Wagner talks to Elizabeth Garner about folklore, and Erica and Patrick Galbraith discuss Elizabeth’s piece for Boundless on a well that sits in the garden at her childhood home.</p><br><p>Erica and Patrick also...

<p>Patrick Galbraith talks to Lamorna Ash, the author of Don't Forget We're Here Forever which will be published shortly by Bloomsbury, about the rise of interest in religion among young people in Britain. That's the...

Erica Wagner talks to the novelist Manya Wilkinson, the winner of the 2025 Wingate Prize, about the influence of Yiddish in writing today.<p > Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.</p>

<p>Like many now-20-something women who grew up in the UK, Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging was an iconic staple of Sadia Nowshin's early teenhood — the awkwardness of girlhood thrown into sharp relief and a...

Erica Wagner and Patrick Galbraith talk about Erica’s trip to Easter Island. From the high sea, she talks about her piece on novels getting shorter while podcasts are getting longer. What they both give us, in different...

<p>In recent history, apocalyptic science fiction was fun. It was hard for most of us to imagine, while reading things like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, that the bleak deadzone the novel is set in could become a reality...

<p>When Sarah Dunant was writing her most recent historical novel, she had a character who was tough to crack. Isabella D’Este, a 16th century Italian noblewoman, had no obvious softness or humanity, and then Sarah – a...

<p>It’s all just storytelling, right? Whether you’re a dramatist, a writer for telly, or a novelist. Well, no. It turns out that writing for the screen and writing for the bookshelf are markedly different...

<p>Why is it that young Irish writers are everywhere, while the Welsh dragon of literary fiction is sitting quietly in a corner? Francesca Reece thinks that the Scottish and Irish simply have better PR — but she also...

<p>Last summer, outside a pub in Soho, Patrick Galbraith met Hannah Hayden, a librettist who also writes erotic novels about men who fall into fantasy worlds and end up having a wild time with dinosaurs and elves...

<p>In 1974, the artist Philippe Petit embarked on an illegal high-wire walk across the Twin Towers, which resulted in a great degree of notoriety that has followed him ever since.</p><p>Philippe talks to Erica Wagner...

<p>While researching her bestselling novel The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley became obsessed with the life of Robert McClure. She has spent the past few years trying to piece together the details of his existence...

<p>In 2019, having almost no experience of journalism whatsoever, Charlie Baker decided to launch a print magazine. In a world where print readership is in dire decline, people thought he was completely nuts — but over...

<p>When she was in her 20s, Katrina Porteous moved to a cottage on the Northumberland Coast. It was immensely beautiful but it was a place that was changing fast – every year the number of fishing boats in the harbour...