Field Ramble
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.
Episodes
50 episodes
Field Ramble with Naomi Booth
On this episode we speak to Naomi Booth about her latest novel Raw Content. Set during a bleak Yorkshire winter, the book follows Grace, a legal editor whose job demands she reduce unspeakable acts to neatly worded clauses. The care an...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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42:03
Field Ramble with Anna Whitwham
On this episode, we speak to Anna Whitwham about Soft Tissue Damage, her startling account of a healing found in controlled violence. Published by Rough Trade Books on 27.03 it charts both the loss of Anna’s mother to cancer and her su...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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24:08
Field Ramble with Ben Markovits
On this episode, Ben Markovitz talks to us about his latest novel The Rest of Our Lives. Starting in the midst of a failing relationship, the story follows Tom Layward, a man on the cusp of a life changing decision. Having lived for ye...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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19:28
Field Ramble with Ellen E. Jones
On this episode Ellen E. Jones speaks to us about Screen Deep, How Film and TV can Solve Racism and Save the World. Many of you will know Ellen from Radio 4’s Screen Shot, in which, alongside her co-host Mark Kermode, she enters the va...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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39:48
Field Ramble with Adelle Stripe
On this episode we speak to Adelle Stripe about her incredible memoir Base Notes. Published by White Rabbit and described perfectly by Wendy Erskine as ‘a marvel of specificity,’ it is everything you’d expect if you’ve read an...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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25:30
Field Ramble with Omar El Akkad
On this episode we meet novelist Omar El Akkad to discuss One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. Published by Canongate (27.02 - UK) it is a powerful meditation on what it means to live in the heart of an empire, an indi...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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32:18
Field Ramble with Elaine Garvey
We catch up with Elaine Garvey to discuss her wonderful debut novel The Wardrobe Department. Set in the early 2000s and written with a disarming first hand delivery, it is the story of Mairéad, a young Irish theatre professional who’s ...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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23:00
Field Ramble with Vincenzo Latronico
First published in Italian three years ago Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection is brought to an English speaking readership for the first time by Fitzcarraldo who publish Sophie Hughes’ exceptional translation on February 13th.Takin...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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26:18
Field Ramble with Orlando Reade
On this episode we speak to Orlando Reade about What in Me is Dark; his exploration of the radical life of Paradise Lost. Within it, the author considers the relationship between the poem and some of the writers and revolution...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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23:24
Field Ramble with Jen Calleja
Another gem from the mighty Rough Trade Books on this episode. This time round we hear from the wonderful Jen Calleja on her latest book Goblinhood, a compelling patchwork of pop culture, family histories and poetics that sets out Jen’...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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25:57
Field Ramble with Rebecca Smith
On this episode we hear from Rebecca Smith about Rural; her account of the lives of the working class countryside. Weaving in her own family’s history as foresters, miners, millworkers and more, Rural sees Rebecca explore stor...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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21:25
Field Ramble with Alejandro Zambra & Megan McDowell
On this episode we speak to Alejandro Zambra about his latest book, Childish Literature; a chronicle of early fatherhood. Written in a 'state of attachment', it is a beautiful collection of roaming essays, poetry and short stories - that show h...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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34:38
Field Ramble with Edward Carey & Erin E. Adams
Two suitably spooky novels on this episode.First up, Erin E. Adams and her debut, Jackal. Published in the UK by Dead Ink Books and set in contemporary Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Jackal is the story of one woman’s ...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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36:17
Field Ramble with Raymond Antrobus
On this episode we speak to poet Raymond Antrobus about his recently published collection Signs, Music. Comprised of two extended sequences Signs, Music centres on both the imminence and the realisation of a new and overwhelming love. ...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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36:24
Field Ramble with Andrew Michael Hurley
As the film adaptation of Starve Acre is released we speak to Andrew Michael Hurley about the origins and evolving life of his much loved novel. Set in the seventies, in the deceptive and unforgiving northern landscapes tha...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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29:56
Field Ramble with Rachelle Atalla
On this episode we catch up with Rachelle Atalla to hear more about her latest novel The Salt Flats. A tale of many threads, it centres around Martha and Finn a couple who have come to find themselves at the end of their relation...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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25:18
Field Ramble with Mateo García Elizondo
On this episode we meet Mateo García Elizondo to hear more about his debut novel Last Date in El Zapotal. First published in Mexico in 2019 it won the City of Barcelona Literature Award that year but has had to wait until 2024 to be pu...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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25:58
Field Ramble with Evie Wyld
On this episode we meet the wonderful Evie Wyld to find out more about her latest novel, The Echoes. As with Evie’s previous books, The Echoes is bold in its use of time and space, spanning generations and moving from one side of the world to t...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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35:04
Field Ramble with Ella Frears
On this episode we speak to Ella Frears about her incredible fictional memoir Good Lord. Taking the form of a single 30,000 word email it is a genre-defying, stream of consciousness address directed toward Ava, an unsuspecting estate a...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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29:21
Field Ramble with Noreen Masud
On this episode we sit down with Noreen Masud to hear more about her incredible memoir A Flat Place. Shortlisted this year for both the Women’s Prize for Non Fiction and the Jhalak Prize, it is an exploration of both the flat landscape...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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33:44
Field Ramble with Katie Hale
On this episode we’re joined by Katie Hale to discuss her upcoming novel The Edge of Solitude. Set on a lone ship that's slowly drifting toward the heart of the Antarctic, it's a book which asks us to consider the risks of the planet’s fu...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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24:49
Field Ramble with Lara Haworth
On this episode we meet Lara Haworth to discuss her wonderful new novel Monumenta. It tells the story of Olha Pavic whose house has been requisitioned by Belgrade city council. They aim to bulldoze it and build a monument to an unspeci...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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28:11
Field Ramble with Octavia Bright
To mark the publication of its paperback edition, this episode is a discussion with Octavia Bright around her wonderful memoir, This Ragged Grace. Published last year, many of you will already know it as an unsparing yet hopeful naviga...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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42:42
Field Ramble with Kevin Barry & Elizabeth O'Connor
Two wonderful books on this episode. First up we hear from Elizabeth O' Connor about her incredible debut novel Whalefall. Set on a remote island off the coast of Wales in the run up to World War Two it is a story that maps ...
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43:37
Field Ramble with Will Burns and Kevin Boniface
On this episode we meet Will Burns to hear about his latest poetry collection Natural Burial Ground. Many of you will know Will from his fantastic (lockdown set) novel The Paper Lantern, a portrait of a transforming social & ...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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41:24