2024: Highlights of a year in podcasts

2024 was another bumper year of Asian Review of Books / New Books Network podcasts. Here is a selection of a dozen highlights from short stories and pop-classics in translation to biography, history, society and the arts. Click on the speaker to hear the podcast … or download (and subscribe!) from your favorite podcast app.

 

  • Timothy Brook, author of The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
  • Adrian Goldsworthy, author of Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
  • Gregory J Wallance, author of Into Siberia: George Kennan’s Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
  • Julie Kalman, author of The Kings of Algiers: How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean World during the Napoleonic Wars and Beyond
  • Glynne Walley, translator of Eight Dogs, or ‘Hakkenden’ Part Two—His Master’s Blade
  • Robert D Kaplan, author of The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
  • Gary J Bass, author of Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
  • Michelle T King, author of Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
  • Lio Mangubat, author of Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period, 1565–1946
  • Rachel Kousser, author of Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great
  • John Duffus, author of Backstage in Hong Kong: A Life with the Philharmonic, Broadway Musicals and Classical Superstars
  • Caroline Alexander, author of Skies of Thunder: The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World

Nicholas Gordon has an MPhil from Oxford in International Relations and a BA from Harvard. He is a writer, editor and occasional radio host based in Hong Kong.