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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 11/20/25 | ![]() Lucia Osborne-Crowley - Live from Latitude✨ | courtroom reportingsex trafficking+5 | Lucia Osborne-Crowley | The Cosmic Shambles Network | Latitude FestivalThe Cosmic Shambles Forest of Science and Culture | Ghislaine MaxwellLucia Osborne-Crowley+5 | — | 53m 04s | |
| 10/3/25 | ![]() Weirdly Normal - The Science of Neurodiversity - Live from Latitude✨ | neurodiversityscience+4 | Gina RipponDr Camilla Pang | The Cosmic Shambles NetworkThe Gendered Brain+5 | — | neurodiversityGina Rippon+6 | — | 42m 17s | |
| 8/29/25 | ![]() Graphic Novels Panel - Live from Latitude 2025✨ | graphic novelsdiverse storytelling+3 | Nikesh ShuklaLewis Hancox | Spiderman: INDIA-SEVAThe Good Immigrant+3 | The Cosmic Shambles Forest of Science and Culture | graphic novelscomics+3 | — | 51m 44s | |
| 11/22/24 | ![]() Stuart Murdoch - Live at the Glasgow Comedy Festival✨ | comedymusic+3 | Stuart Murdoch | Belle and SebastianNobody's Empire | Glasgow | Stuart MurdochBelle and Sebastian+3 | — | 57m 02s | |
| 11/5/24 | ![]() Claudia Hammond, Chris Lintott and Jakko Jakszyk - Part 2 - Latitude 2024✨ | book discussionkindness+3 | Claudia HammondChris Lintott+1 | The Keys to Kindness | — | Claudia HammondChris Lintott+3 | — | 51m 14s | |
| 10/28/24 | ![]() Jakko Jakszyk and Chris Lintott - Part 1✨ | memoirbooks+3 | Jakko JakszykChris Lintott | Who's the Boy With the Lovely HairOur Accidental Universe | — | Latitude Festivalmemoir+3 | — | 49m 22s | |
| 10/14/24 | ![]() Alexis Pauline Gumbs✨ | literatureinterview+3 | Alexis Pauline Gumbs | The Cosmic Shambles NetworkUndrowned+1 | — | Alexis Pauline GumbsUndrowned+3 | — | 46m 28s | |
| 10/7/24 | ![]() Wolverhampton Literature Festival - Josie Long's Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't✨ | literatureshort stories+3 | Josie Long | Wolverhampton Art GalleryThe Cosmic Shambles Network+1 | Wolverhampton | Josie LongWolverhampton Literature Festival+3 | — | 51m 59s | |
| 3/23/23 | ![]() Lucy Nichol✨ | mental healthsuicide+3 | Lucy Nichol | Don't Call Me Snowflake | — | Lucy NicholDon't Call Me Snowflake+5 | — | 51m 01s | |
| 10/6/22 | ![]() Robin Ince's Bibliomaniac Launch Event✨ | book launchcomedy+3 | — | Bibliomaniac | East LondonUK | Robin InceBibliomaniac+3 | — | 50m 00s | |
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| 8/10/16 | ![]() Blue Dot Festival - Science Shambles Pt I | Recorded at the Blue Dot Festival at Jodrell Bank, Robin chatted with various people about the great works of science and science fiction. And also some Mills and Boons. Robin and Josie kick things off and then our guests include physicist and professional pointer at wondrous things, Professor Brian Cox, Rosetta project scientist Dr Matt Taylor, space scientist Professor Monica Grady and actor, comedian and science writer Ben Miller. Because this episode was recorded in a large field where a music festival was also taking place, there is often a bit of background noise. Sorry about that. | — | ||||||
| 8/4/16 | ![]() Isy Suttie | Stand Up, actor and writer Isy Suttie joins Robin and Josie this week to talk about her new book, The Actual One. As usual, the conversation meanders through all sorts of stuff from stand up to Jane Eyre to poo to Sue Townsend. They also establish a new comedic cliche to replace the differences between men and women; The differences between Bronte fans and Austen fans. It’s bound to catch on. | — | ||||||
| 7/28/16 | ![]() Sarah Kendall | Comedian Sarah Kendall joins Robin and Josie to talk about her upcoming Edinburgh show and Radio 4 series as well as bringing in a big bag of her favourite books. There’s Jeffrey Eugenides, Kurt Vonnegut, David Mitchell, Ben Moor, Marta Hillers and plenty of others. Also Josie reads us her favourite poem. Content Warning- The following episode contains a discussion about sexual violence. | — | ||||||
| 7/21/16 | ![]() Latitude Festival - Horror Shambles Special | Saturday night at Latitude, around midnight, Robin and Josie hosted a Book Shambles Live Horror Special to coincide with the launch of Dead Funny Encore from Salt Publishing. This special podcast includes highlights from the live show as week as backstage chats with some of the guests including Reece Shearsmith, Suzi Gage, Anna Savory and Rufus Hound. | — | ||||||
| 7/17/16 | ![]() Latitude Festival - The Wizardry of Thin White Dukes | Robin and Josie introduce the live panel held on Friday night at the 2016 Latitude where we asked the question, is art a spell? David Bowie's final work, visually and aurally, was some of the most potent of his career, made all the more so by his death three days after the release of Blackstar. His favourite books contained many on art, the occult and magick - so are the great creators shamanic… The panel, hosted by Robin, includes Daisy Campbell, Andrew O’Neill, John Constable and Hollie McNish. | — | ||||||
| 7/16/16 | ![]() Latitude Festival Part I | Direct from day one of the Latitude Festival it’s Robin’s Book Shambles. Because Josie is still on route. Robin chats with comic book creators Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, poet Luke Wright and writer and comedian Shappi Khorsandi. | — | ||||||
| 7/7/16 | ![]() Geoff Dyer | On the 100th anniversary of The Battle of the Somme on July 1st, Robin and Josie chatted with the acclaimed writer of 'The Missing of the Somme', Geoff Dyer about that plus his entire body of work including his new book, 'White Sands'. All that and jazz, Tarkovsky, Brexit, Jean Rhys, sitcoms and more. | — | ||||||
| 6/30/16 | ![]() Nikesh Shukla | Acclaimed writer Nikesh Shukla joins Josie and Robin this week to talk about his own work including the upcoming collection of essays, The Good Immigrant, plus everything from Spiderman comics to the dirty short stories of Philip Larkin... | — | ||||||
| 6/23/16 | ![]() Claudia Hammond | Author and host of 'All in the Mind', Claudia Hammond joins Robin and Josie this week to talk about her new book, psychology, Primo Levi, George Saunders and her own teenage book diary.. | — | ||||||
| 6/16/16 | ![]() Lisa Dwan | Actor and Beckett performer extraordinaire Lisa Dwan joins Robin and Josie this week ahead of her upcoming World Premiere of No’s Knife at The Old Vic later this year. There’s obviously plenty of Samuel Beckett’s work to discuss as well as everyone’s favourite short story authors, Dante and the best music to read Mills and Boons by. | — | ||||||
| 6/9/16 | ![]() Alex Bellos | Season 3 of Book Shambles kicks off with Robin and Josie joined by mathematician, author and Pelé biographer, Alex Bellos with talk of football, Feynman, Euclid, reader offers in 1970s comic books and a whole lot more. | — | ||||||
| 4/8/16 | ![]() Jon Ronson | Quest For Wonder Launch Special - With the Cosmic Genome site buzzing this week with the launch of our new series, The Quest For Wonder, we thought we'd celebrate with a Book Shambles special. Author Jon Ronson joins Robin and Josie to talk about the influences on his own work, Hunter S Thompson, Albert Camus and a whole lot more. | — | ||||||
| 2/25/16 | ![]() Eddie Izzard | Season 2 - Episode 6 - In the season two finale of Book Shambles, Robin and Josie are joined by the comedian and actor Eddie Izzard. Along with discussions of theories of the universe and improv, they get into the work of John Higgs, Monty Python and Charlie Chaplin. | — | ||||||
| 2/18/16 | ![]() Natalie Haynes | Season 2 - Episode 5 - Writer, performer, broadcaster and Man Booker Prize judge Natalie Haynes is in the studio with Robin and Josie this week to talk about reading two books a day for a year, Greek classics and an excess of novels set in WWII. | — | ||||||
| 2/11/16 | ![]() Reece Shearsmith | Season 2 - Episode 4 - Taking a break from trying on wigs for the new series of 'Inside No. 9', Reece Shearsmith joins Robin and Josie to talk all things horror. There's talk of books of horror movie history, Stephen King, talking mongooses called Gef and everything else horrific in between. | — | ||||||
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