The Boundless Podcast
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Faiqa Mansab on the tradition of Sufi storytelling
Faiqa Mansab on the tradition of Sufi storytelling
About this podcast
Boundless' flagship podcast, hosted by Patrick Galbraith and Erica Wagner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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- Faiqa Mansab on the tradition of Sufi storytelling · 19 min · Season 1 Episode 21Author of The Sufi Storyteller Faiqa joined Boundless Junior Editor Sadia Nowshin to discuss the beauty of Sufi stories, how classic Western literature might have been inspired…
- Building the Brooklyn Bridge with Erica Wagner · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 21Erica Wagner talks to Patrick Galbraith about her book Chief Engineer, which was published by Bloomsbury in 2017. They discuss Washington Roebling, the man who built the bridge…
- Alison Bechdel on capitalism, representation, and her comic novel Spent · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 20Alison Bechdel joins Erica Wagner to chat about her new comic novel Spent, writing a new kind of autobiography, and learning new things. Spent by Alison Bechdel was published by…
- Hedgelayer and writer Richard Negus on the disconnect between the urban and rural · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 19Patrick Galbraith talks to Richard Negus about hedgelaying, nature writing, and the disconnect between the urban and rural sphere. Richard’s debut book, Words From the Hedge: A…
- Shelley Fisher Fishkin on what Mark Twain would say of politics today · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 18Shelley Fisher Fishkin speaks to Boundless Editor-at-Large Erica Wagner about the enduring relevance and influence of Mark Twain — and how his words can still be used to apply to…
- Patrick Galbraith on what the land actually means · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 16Patrick Galbraith and Erica Wagner talk about Patrick’s unexpectedly controversial new book, Uncommon Ground, which explores land access throughout Britain. From naturism to fox…
- Elizabeth Garner on folk tales and liminal spaces · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 15Erica Wagner talks to Elizabeth Garner about folklore, and Erica and Patrick Galbraith discuss Elizabeth’s piece for Boundless on a well that sits in the garden at her childhood…
- Lamorna Ash on the rise of young people turning to religion · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 14Patrick Galbraith talks to Lamorna Ash, the author of Don't Forget We're Here Forever which will be published shortly by Bloomsbury, about the rise of interest in religion among…
- Manya Wilkinson on Yiddish, and misplacing what was lost · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 13Erica Wagner talks to the novelist Manya Wilkinson, the winner of the 2025 Wingate Prize, about the influence of Yiddish in writing today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy…
- Sadia Nowshin on how teen girl literature has changed · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 12Like many now-20-something women who grew up in the UK, Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging was an iconic staple of Sadia Nowshin's early teenhood — the awkwardness of…
- Erica Wagner on increasingly long podcasts and shorter books · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 11Erica Wagner and Patrick Galbraith talk about Erica’s trip to Easter Island. From the high sea, she talks about her piece on novels getting shorter while podcasts are getting…
- Arvind Ethan David on the thin line between science fiction and reality · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 10In recent history, apocalyptic science fiction was fun. It was hard for most of us to imagine, while reading things like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, that the bleak deadzone the…
- Sarah Dunant on furry friends through history · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 8When Sarah Dunant was writing her most recent historical novel, she had a character who was tough to crack. Isabella D’Este, a 16th century Italian noblewoman, had no obvious…
- Mario Theodorou on the differences between writing for screen and shelf · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 8It’s all just storytelling, right? Whether you’re a dramatist, a writer for telly, or a novelist. Well, no. It turns out that writing for the screen and writing for the bookshelf…
- Francesca Reece on the ascendancy of young Welsh writers · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 7Why is it that young Irish writers are everywhere, while the Welsh dragon of literary fiction is sitting quietly in a corner? Francesca Reece thinks that the Scottish and Irish…
- Hannah Hayden on the world of erotic fantasy fiction · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 6Last summer, outside a pub in Soho, Patrick Galbraith met Hannah Hayden, a librettist who also writes erotic novels about men who fall into fantasy worlds and end up having a…
- Philippe Petit on being more than the 'man on wire,' and Nathan Hill on the uncanniness of Fort Myers Beach · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 5In 1974, the artist Philippe Petit embarked on an illegal high-wire walk across the Twin Towers, which resulted in a great degree of notoriety that has followed him ever since…
- Author Kaliane Bradley on the pains of piecing together lost stories · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 4While researching her bestselling novel The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley became obsessed with the life of Robert McClure. She has spent the past few years trying to piece…
- The Fence magazine’s Founding Editor, Charlie Baker, on launching a print magazine in a very digital age · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 3In 2019, having almost no experience of journalism whatsoever, Charlie Baker decided to launch a print magazine. In a world where print readership is in dire decline, people…
- Katrina Porteous on the last fishing boat in the harbour, and Tice Cin on the madness of your second novel · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 2When she was in her 20s, Katrina Porteous moved to a cottage on the Northumberland Coast. It was immensely beautiful but it was a place that was changing fast – every year the…
