In the third episode of our Legacy Season, Jess talks to translators Julia Sanches and Daniel Hahn about the ways in which any book is itself a legacy passed on from the writer to the translator.

We hope you enjoy this chat, about re-translations of classics, 'donkey bellies' and what kind of translations the pandemic will generate, among much else!

Hosted by Jessica Gaitán Johannesson with music by The Bookshop Band

Browse the books mentioned in this episode by heading over to our Translation as Legacy reading list

In the second episode of the Legacy Season, Tom Mooney sits down for a virtual chat with novelist Michael Christie, author of the gorgeous novel Greenwood, for a conversation about home-schooling, family-trees and families in trees, climate collapse and the entanglement of all life. 

Hosted by Tom Mooney with music by The Bookshop Band

Interested in any of the books mentioned in this episode? Head over to our Legacy of Trees reading list.

Welcome to a brand new season of the Mr B's Podcast - the place where our disembodied voices explore books, ideas and, quite often, very random side-tracks.

Thinking so much about what will come out of the pandemic, and where we will be in a possible afterward, we started talking about the idea of legacy - what will be passed on and left behind from this era: enter The Legacy Season.

Throughout the next few months, with a new episode every two weeks (roughly), we'll be hearing from authors, editors and translators about the role that legacy plays in their work. We'll be exploring the natural world as a legacy running through, and destroyed by, humanity, as well as the legacy of specific conflicts and events in fiction. To kick it all off, join Nic, Sam and Jess as they tackle another HUGE theme, in search of stories of any size.

Hosted by Jessica Gaitan Johannesson with music from The Bookshop Band