{"podcast":{"title":"Books on the Beach","slug":"books-on-the-beach-7809736","podcast_index_feed_id":7809736,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/110fcd080/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/books-on-the-beach8","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/45699712/45699712-1775746386190-6269ef2c22924.jpg","author":"Phil Williams","episode_count":10,"summary":"A brand new Books podcast from broadcaster Phil Williams profiling the Books you'll find on every sunlounger across the Globe. We celebrate the big commercial fiction, non-fiction and children's books by profiling one author each episode. All fully visualised in 4kUHD as well as in audio.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T16:17:21.423507+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-on-the-beach-7809736"},"episode":{"title":"Abir Mukherjee","slug":"abir-mukherjee","published_at":"2026-06-18T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-on-the-beach-7809736/abir-mukherjee","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-on-the-beach-7809736","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/books-on-the-beach8/episodes/Abir-Mukherjee-e3ksch0","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/110fcd080/podcast/play/121565152/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-16%2F426256867-44100-2-9a725bed49492.mp3","summary":"Phil did Abir Mukherjee’s first national broadcast interview a decade ago for his debut, A Rising Man. Since then, Abir’s won the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year, the British Book Awards Crime & Thriller Novel of the Year, the CWA Dagger for best Historical Novel, and much much more. In this Episode, we get Abir’s views on India; his Jeffrey Archer impression (!) and we learn his family’s Indian pet name for him. His new book The Pinnacle is also out today and is his funniest book to date. Enjoy!","meta_description":"Phil did Abir Mukherjee’s first national broadcast interview a decade ago for his debut, A Rising Man. Since then, Abir’s won the Theakstons Crime Novel o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4139,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/books-on-the-beach-7809736/episodes/abir-mukherjee/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-on-the-beach-7809736/abir-mukherjee.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}