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Hotel Exile – The Spectator Book Club

My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the historian Jane Rogoyska, whose new book Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War tells the bloody story of the Second World War through the lens of Paris’s Hotel Lutetia.

Hotel Exile – John Sandoe Books Podcast

Our first podcast for 2026 is with Jane Rogoyska, the author of Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War. Divided into three parts, it tells the story of the influx of mostly German refugees into Paris following the rise of the Nazis, and how the Hotel Lutetia …

Start The Week Thinking About War

How do we think about war? How do we imagine it, picture it and explain it? Adam Rutherford hosts Radio 4’s discussion programme which starts the week, asking what we can learn about ourselves from our varied intellectual and cultural responses to conflict.

Invisible University for Ukraine

I’ve recently returned from Budapest where I was giving a lecture for the Central European University’s intensive winter school programme, part of the ‘Invisible University’ for students from Ukraine.