torie clarke is a former politico operative who worked for both presidents george h.w. bush and george w bush. she decided to start a podcast to highlight her love of books. it's called chatter on books. and she recently joined booktv to talk about it. torie clarke how do you go from a career in politics to a spokesperson at the department of defense to a book podcaster? what's the track there? the track is when i was very young. i loved books. books were my sanctuary. they were my safe place. they were my escape. and then umpteen years of multiple jobs. my god, you guys, you and i have known each other for so long, and i've worked in every agency in town and raising a family. there was no time for books. so now the jobs are a little less high pressure and there's a little bit more time. and i hung out in a great bar called chatter. and so then we came up with this idea for chatter on books. that's how it happens. and is it a podcast? it is a program. it is a podcast occasionally we do things. c-span is very nicely been there. we do things in a location, say, in a books

i flipped to it and torie clarke, you know, he listed my name as victoria, a clerk. now, usually people misspell clerk. he got that right. that letter, a, i don't have a middle name. not only is it not a so i like to say i'm one of the few people about whom paul werber has made a factual mistake. how do you how do you spell clerk with an e at the end with an often gets misspelled and you know go by tori tori often gets misspelled. do you bring your republic and sensibilities into your interviews? you have a long background as a reporter. sure. i like to say conservative. i like to say conservative. i i'm sure i do. it's not front of brain. i think i probably try to put that aside. it's more the experi ences i've had. so, for instance, i worked in the us trade representative office under carla hills. so when some say ken follett starts taking medieval examples of geopolitical things going on today, i can i can click into that or we have a panel. we've live a panel that helps work with the authors, interview the authors and very often one of them is jamie mcintyre, dea

so i'm still reading torie clarke chatter on books is the name of the podcast. the address is chatter on books dot com. thanks for being with us on sta. so thank you again and. welcome. today, i'm going to introduce to amazing is the understatement of the century

torie clarke, you worked for john mccain. you worked for george h.w. bush. you worked for george w bush. thank you, amy. peter, you. i don't see any polemical books or political in that very few. and part of this is going back to my word, escape. this this show is an escape for people. and i and it really started out because i was very fortunate to be on tony kornheiser radio show for many years, which then became a podcast. and it was his bar called chatter, where we started all of this and we realized pretty quickly, people love that. there's a there's a family feel to it and we like to have fun and it was an escape from politics, as you know, politics can be really tough these days. it's been fraught with emotion. this is a bit of an escape. so every once in a while i'm sure you had it on susan page had a fantastic biography of mrs. bush. barbara bush. and it was not about politics. it was about their marriage. the the trauma of losing their young daughter and how that impacted decisions he made. we had karen tumulty on to talk about her biography of nanc

so i'm still reading torie clarke chatter on books is the name of the podcast. the address is chatter on books dot com. thanks for being with us on sta. so thank you again and. welcome. today, i'm going to introduce to amazing is the understatement of the century women. serafina el-badry nance and lauren grush. their the six and star struck are must reads for anyone interested in space. women science and the future of our universe and i would like to just have them open up a little bit by talking about their books and how they came to writing this. because serafina is your book is a memoir. a memoir not only of your time working as an astrophysicist, but of coming up right here in austin, texas. and it is a little bit of a love letter to austin, i must say. it's really, really beautiful. talk a little bit about why you decided to write memoir. you write a lot. so what took you to this point? yeah. thanks, everyone for being here. excited to be back in austin, i think to question i have loved writing. i think in another life i would be a full time writer and not

protest fears the i has election boost for labour as former tory chancellor ken clarke backs rachel reevesues and the guardian is rail rules out ceasefire. those were your front pages. that's all we've got time for. but thank you my guests, for. but thank you to my guests, louis schaffer and to nick dickson. we're back tomorrow at 11:00, louis will here 11:00, when louis will be here with and leo with cressida wetton and leo kearse . and if watching kearse. and if you're watching the repeat show, please the 5 am, repeat show, please do because do stick around because it's time for going it is friday night and the weekend starts here for one. >> and all it is coming up to 9:00 on tv, on radio and online in the united kingdom and across the world. this is mark dolan tonight in my big opinion, britain's wokeist bank strikes again after cancelling nigel farage. now they want to snoop on your account to find out how environmentally friendly you are. my mark meets guest is the top detective who brought evil serial killer levi bellfield, the man who murdered milly dowler to justice is evil. born

protest fears the i has election boost for labour as former tory chancellor ken clarke backs rachel reevess and the guardian is rail rules out ceasefire. those were your front pages. that's all we've got time for. but thank you my guests, for. but thank you to my guests, louis schaffer and to nick dickson. we're back tomorrow at 11:00, louis will here 11:00, when louis will be here with and leo with cressida wetton and leo kearse . and if watching kearse. and if you're watching the repeat show, please the 5 am, repeat show, please do because do stick around because it's time for place in gaza. this comes after a recent rocket attack near news media in sderot in south israel. our home and security editor mark white was there when it happened. you can see here the back of this vehicle. >> the alarms are sounding in the building there. so just right in at the back of that vehicle, the rocket, some of the debns vehicle, the rocket, some of the debris has impacted the window. >> and today , mark is live in >> and today, mark is live in tel aviv for us with the latest . tel aviv for us with the

protest fears the i has election boost for labour as former tory chancellor ken clarke backs rachel reevess and the guardian is rail rules out ceasefire. those were your front pages. that's all we've got time for. but thank you my guests, for. but thank you to my guests, louis schaffer and to nick dickson. we're back tomorrow at 11:00, louis will here 11:00, when louis will be here with and leo with cressida wetton and leo kearse . and if watching kearse. and if you're watching the repeat show, please the 5 am, repeat show, please do because do stick around because it's time for south said welcome to lee anderson's real world. >> we've got some cracking guests on the show tonight. we've got nigel gardner . he's we've got nigel gardner. he's coming on my show for the very first time. we've got a right voice, a right leaning voice. that's linda duberly. a that's linda duberly. she's a journalist the journalist and broadcaster. the left tonight is matthew left voice tonight is matthew laza. back on show . laza. he's back on the show. he's going be banging on he's going to be banging on about

i weekend election boost for labour as former tory chancellor ken clarke backs rachel reeves , clarkendorsed as reassuring and responsible figure to run uk economy by lord kenneth clarke, who served under margaret thatcher. daily express hate marches are affront to british values as beatles reunite covid back to where they once belonged and daily mirrorjudges back to where they once belonged and daily mirror judges spark outrage. no justice. as the family of zara aleena today told of their fury as her killers jail term was cut. the guardian israel rules out ceasefire until hostages are freed. who could blame them ? the sun city fellow blame them? the sun city fellow dating love. i'll bella. i'll get a translation of that headune get a translation of that headline later in the show and a fact sheet. do you remember them, jerry? >> fact sheets. yes, i do. >> fact sheets. yes, i do. >> we're showing our age their daily star. we've got something else worry about. hair rage , else to worry about. hair rage, 1 in 5 anxious if hair is dodgy. so bad that 6% won't leave home. thousands more ar

i weekend election boost for labour as former tory chancellor ken clarke backs rachel reeves , clarkendorsed as reassuring and responsible figure to run uk economy by lord kenneth clarke, who served under margaret thatcher. daily express hate marches are affront to british values as beatles reunite covid back to where they once belonged and daily mirrorjudges back to where they once belonged and daily mirror judges spark outrage. no justice. as the family of zara aleena today told of their fury as her killers jail term was cut. the guardian israel rules out ceasefire until hostages are freed. who could blame them ? the sun city fellow blame them? the sun city fellow dating love. i'll bella. i'll get a translation of that headune get a translation of that headline later in the show and a fact sheet. do you remember them, jerry? >> fact sheets. yes, i do. >> fact sheets. yes, i do. >> we're showing our age their daily star. we've got something else worry about. hair rage , else to worry about. hair rage, 1 in 5 anxious if hair is dodgy. so bad that 6% won't leave home. thousands more ar

course, is real concern here tory mps faced concern here from tory mps faced with lose their with pressure to lose their seats. scott simon clarke senior former tory minister, suggested that there may be an issue here with the leadership of rishi sunak, the about an hour and a half ago, we had had on gb news, we heard from dame andrea jenkyns saying as many as six further mps on top her are willing put in top of her are willing to put in letters no confidence in the letters of no confidence in the prime minister so this is getting quite existential here for minister. what for the prime minister. what does do next? wait and does he do next? we'll wait and see. how soon can he see. but also how soon can he get any result on get any further any result on a new deal with rwanda? is rwanda the right safe country? it may be that courts say no again, in which we're back to square which case we're back to square one.the which case we're back to square one. the one thing they have got, tory party is labour's got, the tory party is labour's response is pretty weak. all they're we're going to they're saying is we're going to work closely w

liam fox, ken you know , good solid ken clarke, you know, good solid rock , solid tories who but, but but they were the past and the tory party needed the future and it found david cameron if, if the tory party needs a future again, it will look to the future. and unfortunately it's not going to be. nigel farage briefly. sorry i mean, it can't be. nigel farage. >> would you serve under nigel farage as leader of the conservative party and would he be a good prime minister? >> i think nigel farage is a good campaigner. >> i think nigel farage is a good campaigner . would you consent? >> would you consent to him being the leader? >> i don't think he'd make a good prime minister because because he's good individual because he's a good individual for all the things that we've said. okay could that. said. okay and he could do that. and you know, the sidelines, he has huge political power. >> all right? the leaders are natural . they're not elected, natural. they're not elected, you leader and you know, a natural leader and prime a different prime minister is a different job, who a natural j

liam fox, ken you know , good solid ken clarke, you know, good solid rock , solid tories who but, but but they were the past and the tory party needed the future and it found david cameron if, if the tory party needs a future again, it will look to the future. and unfortunately it's not going to be. nigel farage briefly. sorry i mean, it can't be. nigel farage. >> would you serve under nigel farage as leader of the conservative party and would he be a good prime minister? >> i think nigel farage is a good campaigner. >> i think nigel farage is a good campaigner . would you consent? >> would you consent to him being the leader? >> i don't think he'd make a good prime minister because because he's good individual because he's a good individual for all the things that we've said. okay could that. said. okay and he could do that. and you know, the sidelines, he has huge political power. >> all right? the leaders are natural . they're not elected, natural. they're not elected, you leader and you know, a natural leader and prime a different prime minister is a different job, who a natural j

yesterday, theirfear problem they have got, one tory mp said to me yesterday, their fear is that he could announce almost anything, and they talk about ken clarke economic competence, after a time when lots of people would say there has not been. in the end, he has to get over the fact that people will look at this and think, am i better off than i was five years ago or ten years ago? i was five years ago or ten years aio? ~ . i was five years ago or ten years aio? . ., , ., �* ago? we had the figures from the obr in terms of living _ ago? we had the figures from the obr in terms of living standards. _ ago? we had the figures from the obr in terms of living standards. paul i in terms of living standards. paul johnson is from the institute for fiscal studies. you have obviously had some site of the books in front of you. had some site of the books in front of ou. ., , ., ., had some site of the books in front of you— in - had some site of the books in front i of you— in terms of you. hours to read them. in terms of you. hours to read them. in terms ofthe of you. hours to read them. in terms of the national _ of you. hours to read them. in terms