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Radio Sohemia provides recordings of Q-and-As and talks hosted by the London-based Sohemian Society as well as interviews that aren’t staged in front of an audience. Founded in 2003, the Society originally focused on Soho bohemia, hence its name, but it has since widened its focus. Past guests range from the former Home Secretary Alan Johnson to the hairdresser-turned-memoirist Suzi Ronson, who created David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust hairstyle. The podcast's continuity announcer is Miles Cholmondley-Warner, best-known for the spoof public information films that he presented with Harry Enfield.

  1. 13H AGO

    A Walk Through the Russian Wilderness

    Foreign correspondent Tom Parfitt, who has worked for The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian, discusses his debut travel book with Paul Willetts. Entitled High Caucasus, it was hailed by The Spectator as “a work of extraordinary imaginative empathy and power.”

    33 min

  2. 12/07/2025

    Dystopian Fiction

    Bestselling novelist John King – author of The Football Factory – talks to Sohemian Society co-founder and think-tank veteran Marc Glendening about “Peekaboo Bosh”, his latest foray into dystopian fiction. They also discuss John's previous work in that genre.

    36 min

  3. 10/12/2025

    Early Victorian A.I.

    Professor John Tresch – a science historian at the Warburg Institute – in conversation with former Wellcome Institute archivist Ross MacFarlane about three early nineteenth-century inventions that anticipated the programmable electronic computer. These include the Eureka Machine, which created perfectly grammatical Latin poetry. This episode was produced with assistance from the National Lottery, Fitzrovia Noir, and the Tommy Flowers Foundation.

    59 min

  4. 09/14/2025

    London at War, 1939-1945

    Jerry White and Travis Elborough in conversation about Jerry’s most recent book, “The Battle of London, 1939-45: Endurance, Heroism and Frailty Under Fire”.

    51 min

  5. 07/06/2025

    The Summer of 1976

    John L. Williams and Travis Elborough discuss John’s new book, “Heatwave”, which chronicles the famously hot and eventful British summer of 1976, a summer remembered bot just for its intense heat but also for riots, inter-racial violence, and the emergence of punk music.

    50 min

  6. 06/22/2025

    The Scandalous History of Dolphin Square

    Join former M.P.-turned-author Simon Danczuk for an amusing conversation with the Sohemian Society co-founder Marc Glendening about the long and often downright weird history of Dolphin Square, an exclusive 1930s London housing development. Among the featured residents are the eccentric spymaster Maxwell Knight, the gay spy John Vassall, and the Labour Party politician/British Union of Fascists leader Oswald Mosley.

    42 min

  7. 06/08/2025

    Soho's Golden Age of Glamour

    Publisher Yak El-Droubie talks to the lively and charming eighty-nine-year-old former nude model Jean Sporle about her life. Their conversation focuses on late 1950s and early 1960s Soho when she worked for Pamela Green and George Harrison Marks, creators of the groundbreaking magazine, Kamera, which brought artistic flair to so-called glamour photography.

    37 min

  8. 05/25/2025

    Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country

    Edward Parnell is in conversation with Paul Willetts about ghost stories and bereavement, twin preoccupations of Edward’s hit nonfiction debut. Published in 2019, “Ghostland” was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize for literary autobiography and received unanimously enthusiastic reviews.

    33 min
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Radio Sohemia provides recordings of Q-and-As and talks hosted by the London-based Sohemian Society as well as interviews that aren’t staged in front of an audience. Founded in 2003, the Society originally focused on Soho bohemia, hence its name, but it has since widened its focus. Past guests range from the former Home Secretary Alan Johnson to the hairdresser-turned-memoirist Suzi Ronson, who created David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust hairstyle. The podcast's continuity announcer is Miles Cholmondley-Warner, best-known for the spoof public information films that he presented with Harry Enfield.

Information

  • Creator
    The Sohemian Society
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © The Sohemian Society
  • Show Website
    Radio Sohemia

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