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Salman RushdieEvery podcast appearance, updated as new ones drop
British-Indian novelist, Midnight's Children, free expression and literary circuit
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- Shows
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- Hours
- ~2
Tracked from 18 Aug 2008 to 21 Sept 2025
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GuestVine has tracked 5 episodes across 5 shows, with links to the original publisher audio.
Podcasts Salman Rushdie has appeared on
The shows with the most detected Salman Rushdie guest appearances.
- How To Fail With Elizabeth DayLatest appearance: 21 Sept 20251 episode
- Lannan Center PodcastLatest appearance: 18 Mar 20211 episode
- Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes PodcastLatest appearance: 15 Oct 20191 episode
- VINTAGE BOOKSLatest appearance: 19 Jun 20171 episode
- Amazon WireLatest appearance: 18 Aug 20081 episode
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How often Salman Rushdie has guested over time — by year, from tracked appearances.
Recent guest appearances
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- ON WRITING... With Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro
Welcome to another special edition of How to Fail, where I revisit conversations from the How to Fail archives. Each week, we shine a light on a particular theme, hopefully offering inspiration, perspective and comfort through the words of past guests. This week’s theme is on writing - appropriately, because my new book ‘One of Us’ is out this week (25th September)! So it felt only fair that I re-shared a couple of my favourite authors who have guested on How to Fail in the past. First up, you’ll hear from Nobel Prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, whose episode originally aired in March 2021. He shares thoughtful reflections on creativity, memory and the way stories help us explore both truth and imagination. Then, we turn to Salman Rushdie, in an excerpt from our original conversation back in June 2024, where he discusses his extraordinary book ‘Knife’ and reflects on the role of stories in making sense of life’s most difficult moments. I hope these highlights remind you of the power of storytelling, not only as a means of escape but also as a way to process, connect and endure Listen to Salman Rushdie’s full episode of How to Fail here: https://link.chtbl.com/OE63hsrn Listen to Kazuo Ishiguro’s full episode of How to Fail here: https://link.chtbl.com/zu0kLq-0 🔗 LINKS + MENTIONS: ‘One of Us’ is out on 25th September: lnk.to/OneOfUsElizabethDay Salman Rushdie’s books: www.salmanrushdie.com Kazuo Ishiguro’s books: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/14137/kazuo-ishiguro/ Elizabeth’s Substack: https://theelizabethday.substack.com/ Join the How To Fail community: https://howtofail.supportingcast.fm/#content 💌 LOVE THIS EPISODE? Subscribe on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts Leave a 5⭐ review – it helps more people discover these stories 👋 Follow How To Fail & Elizabeth: Instagram: @howtofailpod @elizabday TikTok: @howtofailpod @elizabday Website: www.elizabethday.org Have a failure you’re trying to work through for Elizabeth to discuss? Click here to get in touch: howtofailpod.com How to Fail is an Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment Production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- "THIS LAND:" An Evening with Salman Rushdie
On March 18, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring author Salman Rushdie, as part of "THIS LAND" the 2021 Lannan Center Symposium. Moderated by BBC's Razia Iqbal. About Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen novels, most recently Quichotte , The Golden House , and Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights . His book Midnight’s Children was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981 and the Best of the Booker in 2008. He is also the author of a book of stories, East, West , and four works of non-fiction – Joseph Anton – A Memoir , Imaginary Homelands , The Jaguar Smile , and Step Across This Line . A Fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature, Rushdie has received, among other honors, the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (twice), the Writers’ Guild Award, the James Tait Black Prize, and a U.S. National Arts Award. He holds honorary doctorates and fellowships at six European and six American universities, is an Honorary Professor in the Humanities at M.I.T, and University Distinguished Professor at Emory University. Currently, Rushdie is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. About Razia Iqbal Razia Iqbal is a presenter for BBC News: she is one of the main hosts of Newshour , the flagship news and current affairs program on BBC World Service radio, which is broadcast around the world including on more than 400 NPR stations in the U.S. She also regularly presents The World Tonight on the BBC's national network, Radio 4. Iqbal was the BBC's arts correspondent for a decade, during which she travelled around the world covering arts and culture for radio and television news. She has been a journalist with the BBC for nearly three decades, has worked as a political reporter, and as a foreign correspondent in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. She covered the 2016 Presidential campaign in the U.S.; the Turkish and German elections and has travelled in India and Pakistan making programs for radio and television. Music: Quantum Jazz — " Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.
- Belonging & Unbelonging with Salman Rushdie
Listen for details on how to win tickets to our Los Angeles live show! Salman Rushdie is a most singular figure. He’s authored 19 books, accrued countless awards, and spent about a decade in hiding after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for his death. Needless to say, Chris Hayes jumped at the chance to have a conversation with Salman Rushdie about his life and the ways his particular experiences shape his worldview. In one hour, they manage to cover the political climate in India and the US, the opioid epidemic, belonging, reality television, immigration, his newest novel “Quichotte”, and more. Did we mention he’s a knight? RELATED READING: Quichotte by Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Buy tickets to our October 21st Los Angeles live show here! Sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts to listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads. You'll also get exclusive bonus content from this and other shows. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
- The Vintage Podcast with Salman Rushdie at 70
Alex Clark joined Salman Rushdie at the Bath Festival for a conversation celebrating his 70th birthday. The duo discussed Rushdie’s novels, what it means to be eight weeks older than India, migration and the mindset that migrants acquire to survive, his friendship with Bruce Chatwin, and living in New York in the 1970s. Salman Rushdie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His novel Midnight’s Children won the ‘Booker of Bookers’. His new novel, The Golden House, will be published by Vintage in September. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
- Interview with Salman Rushdie
Welcome to this last and final episode of Amazon Wire. We’re not really saying goodbye – we’re just re-launching our podcast series in a format that allows us to bring you the same great content in a more specialized way! For book lovers we bring you a brand new podcast from our Books blog, Omnivoracious.com. Music lovers will find scintillating artist interviews on our music blog, Chordstrike.com and movie and television fans will find new podcasts at Armchair Commentary.com. To sign up via RSS, visit our blogs at Omnivoracious.com, Chordstrike.com or Armchaircommentary.com… You can also find us on the iTunes store. Now on to today’s show… Salman Rushdie is an Indian-British writer who achieved literary fame with his book Midnight’s Children, and world-wide fame for his bookThe Satanic Verses, which spawned violent protests in several Muslim countries and ultimately brought him serious death threats. As a result, Rushdie spent nearly a decade in hiding, rarely appearing in public. Over the past few years Rushdie has reclaimed his life, and has emerged to receive many top honors for his literary work. He was appointed a Knights Bachelor for his “services to literature”, he began a Distinguished Writer residency at Emery University, and he received the Best of the Booker award, which named Midnight’s Children the best novel to ever win the Booker Prize. Salman Rushdie recently spoke with Amazon’s Daphne Durham and Lauren Nemroff about his latest book, Enchantress of Florence.
Salman Rushdie has appeared on 5 recent podcast episodes across 5 different shows. GuestVine keeps this list complete and up to date — new appearances are added automatically and delivered to the podcast player you already use.
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- What podcasts has Salman Rushdie been on?
- Salman Rushdie has appeared on 5 recent podcast episodes across 5 shows, including How To Fail With Elizabeth Day, Lannan Center Podcast, Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast.
- What is Salman Rushdie's latest podcast appearance?
- The latest detected appearance is “ON WRITING... With Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro” on How To Fail With Elizabeth Day, published 21 Sept 2025.
- How many hours of Salman Rushdie podcast interviews are there?
- GuestVine has tracked about 2 hours of Salman Rushdie guest appearances across 5 episodes, going back to 18 Aug 2008.
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- GuestVine tracks delivered guest appearances, excludes own-show episodes where possible, and links back to the original publisher audio. New appearances are added automatically as they are detected.
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