209 Episodes

  1. #49: Farrah Storr, editor-in-chief, Cosmopolitan UK

    Published: 2/12/2019
  2. #48: Dan Franklin, associate publisher, Jonathan Cape

    Published: 1/29/2019
  3. #47: Rebecca Mead, staff writer, the New Yorker

    Published: 1/15/2019
  4. #46: Mark Haddon, novelist

    Published: 1/1/2019
  5. #45: Alexa von Hirschberg, senior commissioning editor, Bloomsbury

    Published: 12/18/2018
  6. #44: Dylan Jones, editor, British GQ

    Published: 12/4/2018
  7. #43: Daisy Johnson, novelist

    Published: 11/20/2018
  8. #42: Ian Rankin, novelist

    Published: 11/6/2018
  9. #41: Hermione Lee, biographer

    Published: 10/23/2018
  10. #40: Richard Skinner, director of the fiction programme at the Faber Academy

    Published: 10/9/2018
  11. #39: Cal Flyn, author

    Published: 9/25/2018
  12. #38: Rory Stewart, author

    Published: 9/11/2018
  13. #37: Clare Conville, literary agent, C+W

    Published: 8/28/2018
  14. #36: Lionel Barber, editor, the Financial Times

    Published: 8/14/2018
  15. #35: Joanne Harris, novelist

    Published: 7/31/2018
  16. #34: Niall Ferguson, historian

    Published: 7/17/2018
  17. #33: Louisa Joyner, editorial director, Faber & Faber

    Published: 7/3/2018
  18. #32: Jeremy Gavron, author

    Published: 6/19/2018
  19. #31: Lucy Hughes-Hallett, author

    Published: 6/5/2018
  20. #30: Jonathan Shainin, editor, Guardian Long Read

    Published: 5/22/2018

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Always Take Notes is a fortnightly podcast from London for and about writers and writing. Hosts Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd speak to a diverse range of people in the industry on a variety of topics, from the mysteries of slush piles and per-word rates, to how data are changing the ways newspapers do business and how to pitch a book. patreon.com/alwaystakenotes