Rory Maclean is the author of 15 books, including Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries, Stalin’s Nose, and Pravda Ha Ha.
He’s been called “the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time” by the novelist John le Carré.
Jan Morris described his work as “a new kind of history, in several dimensions and innumerable moods, that adds up to — across the span of his books — a great and continuing work of literature.”
We have a wide ranging conversation about Berlin, his stay here in the late 1970s making a film with David Bowie, the state of Europe, and how a glimpse of the Berlin Wall formed a lasting influence on his books.
You can read more about Rory on his website: https://rorymaclean.com/
And follow him on Instagram and Twitter.
These are the books we mentioned in the podcast:
- Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
- Stalin’s Nose
- Pravda Ha Ha
- The Magic Bus
- The Oatmeal Ark
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