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Radio Sohemia

The Sohemian Society
Radio Sohemia
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  • Radio Sohemia

    Soho Night & Day

    05/04/2026 | 47 mins.
    Geraldine Norman, widow of the writer Frank Norman, joins Joe Daniel, Frank’s grandson, for a discussion with writer/musician Max Décharné about the underrated author of books such as “Banana Boy” and “Stand On Me”. Joe was the driving force behind the recent republication of “Soho Night & Day”, the classic portrait of 1960s Soho – a book that features text by Frank and high contrast black and white photos by Jeffrey Bernard, someone better-known for his journalism and taste for booze.
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    Adventures in Coding

    01/03/2026 | 58 mins.
    Andrew Smith, the journalist and bestselling author of “Moondust”, talks to historian Matthew Worley about “Devil in the Stack” – Andrew’s latest nonfiction book. It’s a genre-defying part memoir, part history, and part impassioned essay about computer code and the ways in which it’s reshaping the world and humanity.

    Supported by the Heritage National Lottery Fund, the Tommy Flowers Foundation, and Fitzrovia Noir.
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    Wild Swimmer, Wild Life

    01/02/2026 | 54 mins.
    “Guardian” staff writer Patrick Barkham chats with Ross MacFarlane about “The Swimmer”, Patrick’s appropriately unconventional biography of Roger Deakin. Abandoning his lucrative career as a 1960s Soho advertising executive, Deakin bought a ruined house in rural Suffolk and then reinvented himself first as a documentary film-maker and finally as the author of the bestselling memoir, “Waterlog”, which sparked both the fashions for nature-writing and so-called wild swimming.
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    A Walk Through the Russian Wilderness

    04/01/2026 | 32 mins.
    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.”
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    Dystopian Fiction

    07/12/2025 | 36 mins.
    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.

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About Radio Sohemia

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.
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