{"podcast":{"title":"Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa","slug":"service95-book-club-with-dua-lipa-7360472","podcast_index_feed_id":7360472,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/service95bookclubwithdualipa","website_url":"https://www.service95.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/e3185fca-3c8d-11f0-ab72-bf9fbe644e91/image/827b86e767bdad604570c0832c5b9a45.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Service95","episode_count":42,"summary":"Welcome to the Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa. Join Dua each month as she takes you into the world of a book she has loved – and talks to the writer who brought it to life. Expect reads that will make you laugh, cry, and even change the way you think. There are no rules when it comes to the books Dua chooses. Here, she shares her favourite reads straight from her bookshelf with you. Throughout each month, we’ll also be opening up the Service95 Book Club archive, so you can listen to even more of the thought-provoking, funny and insightful conversations Dua has had with her favourite authors over the past couple of years. Whether you read a book a week or haven’t finished one in a year, there's something for everyone here. We can't wait for you to join us. Find out more @service95bookclub","last_synced_at":"2026-06-10T00:18:39.581400+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/service95-book-club-with-dua-lipa-7360472"},"episode":{"title":"The Archive Episode: Dua & Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie On Half Of A Yellow Sun","slug":"the-archive-episode-dua-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-half-of-a-yellow-sun","published_at":"2026-03-24T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/service95-book-club-with-dua-lipa-7360472/the-archive-episode-dua-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-half-of-a-yellow-sun","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/service95-book-club-with-dua-lipa-7360472","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/SVC7114539438.mp3?updated=1774284554","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/SVC7114539438.mp3?updated=1774284554","summary":"From the archives this month, we bring you Dua’s conversation with Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her multi award-winning novel Half Of A Yellow Sun from August 2023. Dua says: “The story takes place in 1960s Nigeria, both before and during the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War. If this is a period of history you are not familiar with, don’t worry, you are not alone. Chimamanda skilfully balances truth and fiction, giving a gripping sense of what was at stake for those who lived through the war and granting this travesty the attention it deserves.” Together, Dua and Chimamanda explore the cast of characters, delving into themes of class, colonialism, politics and conflict. They also discuss how the novel’s parallel love stories – between Olanna and Odenigbo, and Kainene and Richard – remind us that love, jealousy, infidelity and forgiveness are as present in war as they are in peace. Buy the book at Bookshop.org, Waterstones and Barnes & Noble Join the club: 📩 Email us your thoughts – books@service95.com 📲 Follow @service95bookclub on Instagram for more author interviews 📚 Subscribe to the Service95 Book Club newsletter – and be the first to discover Dua’s next pick – at service95.com And don’t forget to hit ‘subscribe’ wherever you get your podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"From the archives this month, we bring you Dua’s conversation with Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her multi award-winning novel Half Of A Yel…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2106,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/service95-book-club-with-dua-lipa-7360472/episodes/the-archive-episode-dua-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-half-of-a-yellow-sun/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/service95-book-club-with-dua-lipa-7360472/the-archive-episode-dua-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-half-of-a-yellow-sun.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}