Podcasts

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Podcast Episode #98 – Philip Short

September 9th, 2022

This week we interview Philip Short, a British journalist who has written several definitive biographies, including Mao: A Life and Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare. Short has had a long career as a […]

Picture of a Life: Philip Short Explores the Biographer’s Craft

July 11th, 2014

More than four decades ago, while working as a freelance journalist in Malawi, Philip Short received a letter from Penguin: Would he be interested in writing a biography of Malawian […]