Radio Sohemia

A recording of a recent Sohemian Society event at which the painter/writer Darren Coffield and the art dealer/critic Clive Jennings discuss Darren’s most recent book, “Queens of Bohemia”. It charts the rackety lives of Nina Hamnett, Henrietta Moraes and other women who inhabited the mid-twentieth-century bohemian world that thrived in Soho and Fitzrovia/North Soho.

Nonfiction writer Paul Willetts talks to the historian and former foreign correspondent Patrick Bishop about his latest book, “Paris ’44”, which provides a panoramic portrait of the Nazi occupation of the French capital and its subsequent liberation.

A live recording of a Sohemian Society event at which Drake’s biographer Richard Morton Jack discussed his subject with the writer James Wilson, whose latest novel, The Pieces, features a Drake-inflected late 1960s folk singer. The discussion was chaired by the novelist and music writer Cathi Unsworth.

Jonathan Meades is in conversation with his longstanding editor and friend, John Mitchinson. They’ll not only be looking back on Jonathan’s career as a journalist, documentary film-maker, and fiction writer but also talking about his new novel, the wonderfully titled Empty Wigs.