{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5f3e198d8bf6cb07d4be96fd/60b80681e24996001a14b75e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Songs From the Deep","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5f3e198d8bf6cb07d4be96fd/1622673020498-851a7b2a03d33226cb4e18b955184f05.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Alok Jha talks to the award-winning writer <strong>Philip Hoare</strong> about his life-long love for and obsession with whales and their history in Antarctica.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Philip’s numerous books include <em>Leviathan or, The Whale</em>, which won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize, and has been published all over the world.&nbsp; It was followed by <em>The Sea Inside</em> (2013) and <em>RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR</em> (2017).</p><p><br></p><p>His latest book, <em>Albert &amp; the Whale</em>, is published by 4th Estate in the UK.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Philip wrote and presented the BBC Arena film <em>The Hunt for Moby-Dick</em>, and directed three short films for BBC’s <em>Whale Night.</em> He is co-curator of the Moby-Dick and Ancient Mariner ‘Big Reads’, and is professor of creative writing at the University of Southampton.</p><p><br></p><p>Special thanks to The Dominica Sperm Whale Project for providing recordings of sperm whales for this episode.&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.thespermwhaleproject.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.thespermwhaleproject.org</a></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"UKAHT"}