Episode

The Book Club: Simon Sebag Montefiore – The Cauldron

Podcast: Best of the Spectator
Published: Aug 25, 2026
Duration seconds: 2362
Processing state: not_requested
Canonical source: https://shows.acast.com/best-of-the-spectator/episodes/the-book-club-simon-sebag-montefiore-the-cauldron
Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68358fb5e1abc4be6b0308eb/e/6a8daf8383ae7b3466aee785/media.mp3?tk=eyJ0ayI6ImRlZmF1bHQiLCJhZHMiOnRydWUsInNwb25zIjp0cnVlLCJzdGF0dXMiOiJwdWJsaWMifQ==&sig=g8pctZ4ayiiinsTveE7GHxo-h3ixWdxREpXB8mbg6BY
JSON: /v1/public/podcasts/best-of-the-spectator-45373/episodes/the-book-club-simon-sebag-montefiore-the-cauldron
Markdown: /podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/the-book-club-simon-sebag-montefiore-the-cauldron.md

Actions

POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/best-of-the-spectator-45373/episodes/the-book-club-simon-sebag-montefiore-the-cauldron/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373/the-book-club-simon-sebag-montefiore-the-cauldron.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

Summary

My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Simon Sebag Montefiore, the author of a number of fantastic books, including The Cauldron , which released this week. Simon and I talk about the making of the modern middle east, and how we forget some of the most fundamental groups who shaped this part of the world into the region that we know of today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.