Damian Barr’s Literary Salon

Hosted ByDamian Barr

Damian Barr's Literary Salon tempts the world's best writers to read exclusively from their latest greatest works and share their own personal stories. Star guests include: Jojo Moyes, John Waters, Yaa Gyasi, Mary Beard, Diana Athill and Louis de Bernières - all in front of a live audience at leading glamorous locations world-wide. Our London home is the Savoy. Suave Salonnière Damian Barr is your host.

Produced by Megan Bay Dorman and Russell Finch.


All Episodes

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Lauren John Joseph reads from ‘At Certain Points We Touch’

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Lily Dunn reads from ‘Sins of My Father’

An extract from the dazzling new memoir that’s ‘a victory of self-knowledge and compassion’

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Gale reads from ‘Mother’s Boy’

This week’s episode is for our listeners who love historical fiction. Mother’s Boy by Patrick Gale is a finely wrought novel that centres around Cornwall, class, desire and two...

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Ed O’Loughlin reads from ‘The Last Good Funeral of the Year’

Soon, the lockdown would start. People would die alone, without any proper ceremony. Charlotte’s death would be washed away, the first drop in a downpour. Nobody knew it then...

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Audrain reads from ‘The Push’

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Charmaine Wilkerson reads from ‘Black Cake’

Enjoy an excerpt from the debut novel everyone’s talking about, and Oprah’s making a television series from!

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Jon Ransom reads from ‘The Whale Tattoo’

It’s LGBTQ+ History Month in the UK! We’re celebrating with the release of an episode featuring Jon Ransom’s debut novel The Whale Tattoo. It’s a fine work of queer...

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Osman Yousefzada reads from ‘The Go-Between’

An enlightening memoir from the world-famous artist and fashion designer

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Jo Browning Wroe reads from ‘A Terrible Kindness’

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