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A pod for those who love the latest in fiction, non fiction and poetry. Field is a platform for new and exciting work from across the UK and beyond. If you like what you hear find out more about Field at www.fieldzine.com. You can subscribe and support Field's work via patreon at www.patreon.com/fieldzine for just £3 per month.


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  • Field Ramble with Madeleine Dunnigan and John Grindrod
    Mar 26 2026

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    This month Sam talks to Madeleine Dunnigan about her debut novel Jean. It is set over the long, blazing summer of 1976 at Compton Manor, an isolated boarding school on the south downs. An oubliette, attended by a ragged assortment of boys who have all run out of road elsewhere. Jean is there too, searching desperately for himself among a violent mix of prejudice, antisemitism and predatory intentions. With no reliable actors in his life and cast away in the wilderness of the pre-internet era, he must navigate abandonment and his own irrepressible desire.

    Meanwhile Lara speaks to John Grindrod about his fantastic new work of social history, Tales of the Surburbia. Throughout LGBTQ+ history, suburbia has been seen as somewhere to escape from. A place where hetrosexuality rules, where difference will not be tolerated and one where you’ll never find a soulmate. But for many, those streets of twitching curtains and pebble-dashed semis were - or still are - a place to call home. Tales of the Suburbs explores the untold 20th century tale of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people in suburbia. Through remarkable archive material and original interviews.

    Jean is published by Daunt Books

    Tales of the Suburbs is published by Faber

    Music Used on this episode

    Small Town Boy - Jose Gonzalez (Sommerville, Bronski, Steinbachek)

    There is a Light That Never Goes Out - Cyrus Nabipoor (Marr, Morrissey)

    Hand On your Heart - Jose Gonzalez (Stock Aitken Waterman)

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  • Field Ramble with James Meek and Ece Temelkuran
    Feb 26 2026

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    This month Canongate publish Nation of Strangers, the third ‘instalment’ in a series by Turkish novelist, essayist and journalist Ece Temelkuran. Following on from How To Lose A Country and Together it is, once more, rooted in Ece’s forced displacement from her homeland.

    Recorded last December at Canongate’s offices Sam met Ece to discuss this deeply personal and unflinching account of being ‘unhomed’. Nation of Strangers is centred on a loss that will resonate deeply with anyone who struggles - in the face of rising global authoritarianism - to recognise the country they call home. Written as a set of letters to a stranger it embraces humility and love as a rejection of the politics of cynicism and asks us once we recognise what is happening, (fascism) what choice do we have but to act?

    'Her most ambitious an dazzling book yet.'

    BRIAN ENO

    'Ece Temelkuran is a brilliant thinker, and her work here is as conceptually illuminating as it is beautifully written .... both a call and a comfort, a book that made me feel so much less alone.'

    OMAR EL AKKAD


    Meanwhile, Lara meets up with James Meek to hear about his latest novel ‘Your Life Without Me’; a tale of loss, provocation and the radical discomfort of the new. Centred around a single act of destruction (the attempted demolition of St Paul’s Cathedral) it is a book which asks how much of the past we can hold on to if we are to build a future worth living in. And whether change is inherently and unavoidably destructive.

    Praise for the novels of James Meek

    'A story so original and so fully imagined.'

    HILARY MANTEL

    'The language is so fresh and crisp and sparkling.'

    PHILIP PULLMAN

    Music used in this episode:
    Norfik - Realization
    Ida Urd & Ingrid Høyland- Duvet
    Ian Hawgood - I Don’t Think We Belong Here
    Norfik - Denial


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  • Field Ramble with Rebecca Perry and James Muldoon
    Jan 29 2026

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    ROBOTS AND KINGS

    Two wonderful books to start the year. Lara meets up with Rebecca Perry to hear all about her debut novel ‘May We Feed The King’. Already a firm favourite at Field HQ, it is the mesmeric story of a king who resists power and the curator who pursues their forgotten legacy. A huge recommend that is described by A.K. Blakemore as ‘A sort of perfect snow globe, presenting a decadent world in miniature that surprises us with the depth of its reflections on power, yearning and loneliness.

    Get your copy here: https://granta.com/products/may-we-feed-the-king/

    Meanwhile Sam speaks to James Muldoon about his latest book ‘Love Machines’, an exploration into the ways in which ‘artificial intelligence is transforming our relationships.’ In equal parts fascinating and terrifying it charts the cynical exploitation of loneliness, the erosion of reality’s fabric and the myriad ways in which we are being radically re-shaped by this technology.

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