A selection of radio broadcasts and podcasts for the BBC and elsewhere, usually with me as a contributor or interview subject.
Immortal North
BBC Radio 3 (Kalder as Contributor) As the clock ticks down towards midnight and a New Year looms, it’s hard to escape thoughts of the passage of time, ageing, the meaning of i
Chess City: A Monument to an Impossible Dream
(Daniel as Contributor) Radio producer Gary Waleik and I had so much fun working together on the Gaddafi piece that we later collaborated on a story about Chess City, the fan
Lost in the Stacks
(Daniel as Contributor) I did a ton of podcast and radio interviews when The Infernal Library came out. In the early stages I even did a radio tour, which involved
The Worst Sponsorship Deal in the History of Pro Sports?
(Daniel as Contributor) While I was promoting my third book, The Infernal Library, I met producer Gary Waleik and did a couple of fun things with him for the sports-themed NP
Podcast: The Killer’s Canon
There are a lot of very good, very long books out there: Middlemarch, War and Peace, Don Quixote, the Neapolitan Novels. And then there are the very long books you probably won’t
The Digital Human: Protection
BBC Radio 4 (Daniel as Contributor) Aleks Krotowski explores living in a digital world. Listen here
Cornerstones: Siberia
Cornerstones: Siberia BBC Radio 3 (Daniel as Presenter) Daniel Kalder conjures up the vast landscapes east of the Urals, where taiga becomes tundra. Siberia is more a state of mind
Digitising Stalin
BBC Radio 4/BBC World Service (Daniel as Presenter) For Stalin, privacy was key. So how would he feel about his secrets being revealed? The Stalin Digital Archive is the resu