May 22, 2019
Claudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg) speaks here with Christopher de Hamel, whose most recent book is Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. This work won the Wolfson History Prize for history written for the general public and the Duff Cooper Prize for best work of history, biography, or political science. For 25 years... |
May 15, 2019
@claudiacragg speaks here (reprise of earlier interview) with Liza Mundy on Code Girls. This is the story of the young American women who cracked German and Japanese communications code to help win the Second World War.
Recruited from settings as diverse as elite women’s colleges and small Southern towns, more than...
May 8, 2019
Podcast on short sabbatical due to unexpected fractured wrist.
Just out in paperback is 'Collusion' by Nomi Prins, (@nomiprins )a searing
exposé, in which this former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows
how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of
central bankers and triggered a massive shift in...