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A weekly podcast on books and culture brought to you by the writers and editors of the Times Literary Supplement.

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Episode Date
Better to Travel Hopefully
May 02, 2024
Super Furry Animals
Apr 25, 2024
Power Plays
Apr 18, 2024
Unjust Deserts
Apr 11, 2024
Time Past and Time Future
Apr 04, 2024
Illustrated Men
Mar 28, 2024
O Pioneers!
Mar 21, 2024
Between The Sheets
Mar 14, 2024
A Worm’s-eye View
Mar 07, 2024
Revivals
Feb 29, 2024
Cometh the Hour
Feb 22, 2024
Flights of Fantasy
Feb 15, 2024
In Conversation with Richard Sennett
Feb 11, 2024
All the World's a Stage
Feb 08, 2024
Splendid Isolation
Feb 01, 2024
Class Struggles
Jan 25, 2024
Energy Creation
Jan 18, 2024
Out Of Our Minds
Jan 11, 2024
Turning Leaves: Dame Penelope Lively and Josephine Lively
Jan 04, 2024
A Cure for Twixmas
Dec 28, 2023
Worlds of Pure Imagination
Dec 21, 2023
From Paris To The Prairies
Dec 14, 2023
There May Be Trouble Ahead
Dec 07, 2023
Silently And Very Fast
Nov 30, 2023
Charm School
Nov 23, 2023
Back Of The Net!
Nov 16, 2023
Lost In Space
Nov 09, 2023
The Handmaids' Tales
Nov 02, 2023
History in the Making
Oct 26, 2023
Finding Tongues In Trees
Oct 19, 2023
Punching Above Their Weight
Oct 12, 2023
Sing, O muses!
Oct 05, 2023
Elegies And Energies
Sep 28, 2023
Back To The Future
Sep 21, 2023
Back to School!
Sep 14, 2023
Power Play
Sep 07, 2023
To the Scriptorium!
Aug 31, 2023
Nevertheless, They Persisted
Aug 24, 2023
The Pursuit Of The Interesting
Aug 17, 2023
Femmes Fatales
Aug 10, 2023
Natural Passions
Aug 03, 2023
School's Out For Summer
Jul 27, 2023
Running And Dancing Through Our Stories
Jul 20, 2023
Riders On The Storm
Jul 13, 2023
Take A Walk On The Wild Side
Jul 06, 2023
The Writing on The Wall
Jun 29, 2023
The Limits of Love
Jun 25, 2023
Long Hot Summer
Jun 22, 2023
Winning On The Home Front
Jun 18, 2023
Sauce Bolognese
Jun 15, 2023
Know Thyself
Jun 11, 2023
Hay Festival Special
Jun 08, 2023
Puffed Up with Wind
Jun 05, 2023
Inheritance Taxes
Jun 01, 2023
Their Little Pony
May 30, 2023
O Tempora! O Mores!
May 25, 2023
Life In The Slow Lane
May 18, 2023
To The Barricades
May 14, 2023
All The News That’s Fit To Print
May 11, 2023
Every Little Helps
May 07, 2023
To Thine Own Self Be True
May 04, 2023
Everyone’s Business
Apr 30, 2023
How To Respect A Chihuahua’s Privacy
Apr 27, 2023
Look Back In Anger
Apr 23, 2023
A Place of Greater Safety
Apr 20, 2023
So Long, Farewell
Apr 16, 2023
Connecting the Dots
Apr 13, 2023
Searching for the Good Life
Apr 09, 2023
Disrupting the Narrative
Apr 06, 2023
Mother Knows Best
Apr 02, 2023
Always Look On The Bright Side of Life
Mar 30, 2023
Scratch The Surface
Mar 26, 2023
Private Faces In Public Places
Mar 23, 2023
In A Green Shade
Mar 16, 2023
American Paranoia
Mar 12, 2023
The Isle is Full of Noises
Mar 09, 2023
Turning Leaves
Mar 07, 2023
Give Them Back!
Mar 05, 2023
Coming to Fruition
Mar 02, 2023
Good Chaps
Feb 27, 2023
A Treasure on Your Shelf, Waiting
Feb 23, 2023
Into The Woods
Feb 19, 2023
Dogs Days in the Writer’s Life
Feb 16, 2023
A Town Called Sue
Feb 12, 2023
State Secrets and Private Passions
Feb 09, 2023
Big Tech Is Reading Your Mind
Feb 05, 2023
All Those Old Familiar Places
Feb 02, 2023
The Gene Genie
Jan 29, 2023
Telling It Like It Is
Jan 26, 2023
Stories That Simply Unfold
Jan 22, 2023
Rattling The Handle On Life
Jan 19, 2023
A Sea-Brooding Poet
Jan 16, 2023
Radical Barbie
Jan 09, 2023
Festive Shadows and Feasts of Panackelty
Dec 22, 2022
Simon McBurney of Complicité - "We've always been interested in the idea of connection"
Dec 18, 2022
The Power of Connections
Dec 15, 2022
The Road To St Helena
Dec 11, 2022
Female Perspectives Take Centre Stage
Dec 08, 2022
His Biggest Role
Dec 04, 2022
Roman Coins And Radical Rosa Bonheur
Dec 01, 2022
Conquering Sociopaths
Nov 28, 2022
“It Is An Astonishment To Be Alive”
Nov 24, 2022
End Of The Road
Nov 20, 2022
Bearing Witness To Terror
Nov 17, 2022
Tinker, Tailor, Lover, Spy
Nov 13, 2022
Men On A Mission
Nov 10, 2022
One Step Beyond
Nov 06, 2022
Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Nov 03, 2022
Big Unfriendly Giant
Oct 30, 2022
From Battleground to Billiard Table
Oct 27, 2022
Acid Raine
Oct 23, 2022
A Journey Into The Ambiguous Afterlife
Oct 20, 2022
Beyond Flesh and Blood
Oct 16, 2022
Measuring Our Lives, One Reindeer At A Time
Oct 13, 2022
What's For Dinner?
Oct 09, 2022
United We Stand
Oct 06, 2022
If We Only Had Eyes To See
Oct 02, 2022
Marching To Their Own Tune
Sep 29, 2022
Vaccines On Stage, Elves On Screen
Sep 22, 2022
Elizabeth II in History
Sep 18, 2022
The Rise of Your Frenemy’s Sourdough
Sep 15, 2022
The Hour Of Our Death
Sep 11, 2022
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Sep 08, 2022
Our New Gilded Age
Sep 04, 2022
Women In Cages, Everywhere
Sep 01, 2022
In Which Summer’s Lease Runs Out
Aug 25, 2022
Earth Matters
Aug 18, 2022
Visionaries Revisited
Aug 11, 2022
Summer Breeze
Aug 04, 2022
Revolutionary Roads
Jul 28, 2022
Boys And Their Toys
Jul 21, 2022
Paradise Lost and Particles Found
Jul 14, 2022
Making Waves: An Oceanic Austen And A Modern Orwell
Jul 07, 2022
From Mountain Passes To Streets Paved With Gold
Jun 30, 2022
Lazing On A Sunny Afternoon
Jun 23, 2022
Kidneys, Plums and Free Love
Jun 16, 2022
The TLS podcast at the Hay Festival
Jun 08, 2022
The Ebb and Flow of Power
Jun 02, 2022
Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité
May 26, 2022
Mementoes and Mayhem
May 19, 2022
Free-thinking Dinners in the Age of Revolutions
May 11, 2022
The Shape Of Things To Come
May 05, 2022
The Birds and the Bees, and Books Made of Cheese
Apr 28, 2022
Lives, Interrupted
Apr 21, 2022
Life Lessons and Making Sporting History
Apr 14, 2022
Early Days And Their Long Shadows
Apr 07, 2022
Boundaries Real and Imagined
Mar 31, 2022
Visions of Violence
Mar 24, 2022
Rock Star, Freak, Agitator
Mar 17, 2022
Say What You’re Going To Say
Mar 10, 2022
Faint Praise
Mar 03, 2022
Birds of a Feather
Feb 24, 2022
A Story With Strings Attached
Feb 17, 2022
Writers at the Gates of Dawn
Feb 10, 2022
Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!
Feb 03, 2022
Clarity, Honesty, Fluff
Jan 27, 2022
Carnival of Darkness
Jan 20, 2022
Give Me Your Heart
Jan 13, 2022
A Constant State of Foreignness
Jan 06, 2022
Best of 2021
Dec 30, 2021
Best of 2021
Dec 30, 2021
BONUS: Sarah Hall and Sarah Moss – an interview
Dec 23, 2021
This Is Magic
Dec 16, 2021
On not letting it be
Dec 09, 2021
George Orwell and his Roses and a History of Self-Improvement
Dec 02, 2021
Books of the Year 2021
Nov 25, 2021
The Mythic Town of Concord and the Magic of the Lighted Window
Nov 18, 2021
The Booker-winner and the Beatle
Nov 11, 2021
Wild Lives
Nov 04, 2021
Doom, Faith and Sabotage
Oct 27, 2021
Radical Turns
Oct 20, 2021
The Autumn Livres
Oct 13, 2021
E.M. Forster's Happy Solution
Oct 07, 2021
When the Flawed Succeed
Oct 03, 2021
Survival of the Wittiest
Sep 29, 2021
Sad and Twisted Stories
Sep 23, 2021
Greatest Hits
Sep 20, 2021
Don't sweat it
Sep 16, 2021
Indexes, Newsletters, Potatoes, Gold!
Sep 08, 2021
TLS Summer Library: Part IV
Sep 01, 2021
TLS Summer Library: Part III
Aug 25, 2021
The Guidance of Brains
Aug 22, 2021
TLS Summer Library: Part II
Aug 18, 2021
TLS Summer Library: Part I
Aug 11, 2021
Turning poetry into profit with Alighieri Jewellery's Rosh Mahtani
Aug 11, 2021
Paternal Effects
Aug 08, 2021
A Genius of Cancer and a Queen of Bohemia
Aug 04, 2021
The Miraculous Mundane
Jul 28, 2021
Private Profits, Public Cost
Jul 25, 2021
The movie we want it to be
Jul 21, 2021
Insiders, outsiders and insider-outsiders
Jul 15, 2021
No Ideas, But in Things
Jul 11, 2021
Proust's Way
Jul 07, 2021
Strange Worlds of Their Own
Jun 30, 2021
Robots Working, Humans Reading
Jun 23, 2021
Mozart the Happy Harlequin and Lost British Labourism
Jun 16, 2021
A Bengali Polymath and an ‘Accidental Modernist’
Jun 09, 2021
‘But Where’s the Poetry?!’
Jun 02, 2021
D. H. Lawrence in Flames
May 27, 2021
Jane Austen and Abolition
May 20, 2021
Angela Thirkell’s Relentless Self-Belief
May 12, 2021
Pirandello’s Controlled Chaos
May 05, 2021
Violence Upon the Roads
Apr 28, 2021
Underground and on the Run
Apr 21, 2021
Getting Shakespeare’s Measure
Apr 14, 2021
Philip Roth, For Better, For Worse, Forever?
Apr 07, 2021
Dreams of America
Mar 31, 2021
Myth-busting, awkwardness, pure Marvellousness
Mar 25, 2021
Vivian Gornick’s Time
Mar 18, 2021
Avoidance and absurdity
Mar 11, 2021
Ishiguro’s AI and Grendel’s Mother
Mar 04, 2021
Nostalgia, Outsiders and "Rubber Tramps"
Feb 25, 2021
Weapons, Grouse and Red Herrings
Feb 18, 2021
Tentatively Pressing
Feb 11, 2021
The Barbara Comyns revival
Feb 04, 2021
BONUS: David Baddiel - Jews Don't Count
Jan 29, 2021
Borges - Encounters and "Encounters"
Jan 28, 2021
Delicate Matters
Jan 21, 2021
Epiphanies and Kidneys
Jan 14, 2021
This is Pakistan
Jan 07, 2021
Jacques Tati’s Serious Gags
Dec 17, 2020
Stalin, little and large
Dec 10, 2020
Beethoven at 250
Dec 03, 2020
BONUS: 2020 Booker Prize Winner - Douglas Stuart
Nov 27, 2020
Neither Victims nor Perpetrators
Nov 26, 2020
Gagged with Ashes
Nov 19, 2020
Books of the Year 2020
Nov 12, 2020
You Have Fixed Me
Nov 05, 2020
Terrifyingly True (or Not)
Oct 29, 2020
Classical music conductors: Overpaid, oversexed and over the hill?
Oct 27, 2020
Out Caravaggio-ing Caravaggio
Oct 22, 2020
Dancing on Air
Oct 15, 2020
Milk as Metaphor
Oct 08, 2020
Seduction and Uprisings
Oct 01, 2020
Murder at the Opera
Sep 24, 2020
Books! Books! Books!
Sep 16, 2020
Sex and the City of Ladies
Sep 09, 2020
The TLS, rewind #4
Aug 26, 2020
The TLS, rewind #3
Aug 19, 2020
The TLS, rewind #2
Aug 12, 2020
The TLS, rewind #1
Aug 05, 2020
Climate change, from 'doomism' to optimism
Jul 29, 2020
Life as a Roman emperor
Jul 22, 2020
How the West was written
Jul 15, 2020
Romance versus realism
Jul 08, 2020
The Pet Shop Boys paradox
Jul 01, 2020
Bernardine Evaristo wins again
Jul 01, 2020
Holiday in the living room
Jun 24, 2020
Don’t forget Edward Earl Johnson
Jun 17, 2020
Finding art in lockdown
Jun 10, 2020
Slave driver, the table is turn
Jun 03, 2020
How to be alone
May 27, 2020
Townies and gownies
May 20, 2020
‘How does it smell?’
May 13, 2020
Grotesquely good
May 06, 2020
Easy as ABC?
Apr 29, 2020
Godzilla, the plague, etc
Apr 22, 2020
‘It’s not him, it’s us’
Apr 15, 2020
Introducing: Stories of our times
Apr 13, 2020
‘A very peculiar telegram’
Apr 08, 2020
The kangaroo curve
Apr 01, 2020
Tweets, memes and the smell of masculine
Mar 26, 2020
Tales of a century
Mar 20, 2020
Passion projects
Mar 12, 2020
Absolutely worth the hype
Mar 05, 2020
The Mirror & the Light – an extract from Hilary Mantel's new novel
Feb 27, 2020
West Side Storyless
Feb 27, 2020
Vanilla sex in Pompeii
Feb 20, 2020
Anne Enright – a reading from Actress
Feb 13, 2020
Can't go on. Go on.
Feb 13, 2020
Daniel Kehlmann, an interview
Feb 06, 2020
Bringing Tolstoy down
Feb 06, 2020
Carrier bag or stick?
Jan 30, 2020
Byron's oddness
Jan 23, 2020
Bonus episode: Five women, one radical address
Jan 16, 2020
Huge stars in a minor key
Jan 16, 2020
Seen and not heard?
Jan 09, 2020
Apples and oranges in space
Jan 02, 2020
The decade that was
Dec 19, 2019
Haunted by Miss Austen
Dec 12, 2019
The Iron Lady and the judo politician
Dec 05, 2019
Hallie Rubenhold – an interview
Nov 28, 2019
Books of the Year, 2019
Nov 28, 2019
Elizabeth Strout – an interview
Nov 21, 2019
Two phat ladies
Nov 21, 2019
How to read
Nov 14, 2019
Cold War machinations
Nov 07, 2019
Morals and mysteries
Oct 31, 2019
Magazine love
Oct 23, 2019
Bernardine Evaristo – winner of the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction
Oct 17, 2019
David Greig – revisiting 'Solaris'
Oct 17, 2019
Prize controversies
Oct 16, 2019
Patronizing writers of colour
Oct 09, 2019
How to grow a human
Oct 09, 2019
Scavenger of eternal truths
Oct 02, 2019
Unsettled by Sontag
Sep 25, 2019
The recipe for superstardom
Sep 18, 2019
Is it too late?
Sep 11, 2019
What do the kids say?
Sep 04, 2019
'We should all be interested in pigeons...'
Aug 21, 2019
The most expensive mystery of all
Aug 14, 2019
How to be modern: conspiracy theory, free will and the avant-garde
Aug 07, 2019
‘We don’t know what he has, we don’t know what he’s done with it’
Jul 31, 2019
Nature for sale
Jul 24, 2019
Unromancing the Romantics
Jul 17, 2019
Loving Iris Murdoch
Jul 10, 2019
Who reads John Updike?
Jul 03, 2019
Talk to the hands
Jun 26, 2019
Summer Books 2019
Jun 19, 2019
Russian greats and fictional eats
Jun 12, 2019
Ethical economics
Jun 05, 2019
Celestial Bodies – winner of the 2019 Man Booker International prize for fiction
May 29, 2019
Weighty matters
May 29, 2019
Victoria at 200
May 22, 2019
Knowing laughter
May 15, 2019
Journey to the centre of the earth
May 08, 2019
To infinities – and beyond
May 01, 2019
The life-writing issue
Apr 24, 2019
As we like it
Apr 17, 2019
Ian McEwan – an interview
Apr 17, 2019
Youth injustice system
Apr 10, 2019
Whitechapel and Weimar
Apr 03, 2019
A deep history of Europe
Mar 28, 2019
Forgotten, not gone
Mar 21, 2019
O, the Edward Gorey of it all
Mar 14, 2019
Dave Eggers: The violations start with us
Mar 14, 2019
A nose is a nose is a nose…
Mar 07, 2019
Unsilenced voices
Feb 28, 2019
Half glitzy, half dowdy
Feb 21, 2019
Zadie Smith, in conversation
Feb 21, 2019
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: the inaugural Gabriel García Márquez lecture
Feb 14, 2019
Narratives of sexual assault
Feb 14, 2019
How Macron went wrong
Feb 07, 2019
‘American Standard’, a new poem by Paul Muldoon
Jan 31, 2019
Everything points north
Jan 31, 2019
Reddit's new religions
Jan 24, 2019
Egos and experiments
Jan 17, 2019
Finer points of murder
Jan 10, 2019
Icons familiar and unfamiliar
Jan 03, 2019
Highlights from 2018 – a bonus episode
Dec 27, 2018
Mary Beard's 'Introduction to the Odyssey' – a bonus episode
Dec 27, 2018
Arts of the Year 2018
Dec 20, 2018
Ode to the orca
Dec 13, 2018
Who on earth was William Gilbert?
Dec 06, 2018
Our problem with cows
Nov 29, 2018
The best books of 2018
Nov 22, 2018
Is it accurate to call Donald Trump a fascist?
Nov 15, 2018
WW1: Remembering / forgetting
Nov 08, 2018
Remembering Peterloo
Nov 01, 2018
BONUS: Must read – must buy?
Oct 24, 2018
1844, remember the date...
Oct 24, 2018
Ever-enigmatic Leonardo da Vinci
Oct 17, 2018
An Odyssey for everyone
Oct 10, 2018
Radical Cheltenham and a poem from Paul Muldoon
Oct 03, 2018
Diarmaid MacCulloch on Thomas Cromwell
Sep 26, 2018
Mexico's great disgrace
Sep 26, 2018
Henry James in LA
Sep 19, 2018
On booze and art
Sep 12, 2018
Philip Larkin, beyond the grave
Sep 05, 2018
Too smart for our own good
Aug 22, 2018
Same old gags
Aug 15, 2018
Turn on, tune in, drop out?
Aug 08, 2018
Mind and memory
Aug 01, 2018
Emily Brontë's wuthering wilds
Jul 25, 2018
Women, in and out of control
Jul 18, 2018
Summer Books 2018
Jul 11, 2018
Ode to Lee Child – a bonus episode
Jul 11, 2018
Notes on 50 years of the Man Booker Prize
Jul 04, 2018
An interview with Tim Winton – a bonus episode
Jun 27, 2018
The wildness of Muriel Spark
Jun 27, 2018
Russia's blood games
Jun 20, 2018
Changing your mind and opening the doors
Jun 13, 2018
Rules of law
Jun 13, 2018
Jesmyn Ward’s lyrical fiction - a bonus episode
Jun 07, 2018
Those are pearls . . . and Michael Jackson's performative drama
Jun 06, 2018
Philip Roth and the translatable
May 30, 2018
The making of me
May 25, 2018
Roman emperors and football managers
May 16, 2018
BONUS: Madeline Miller on Circe
May 09, 2018
Mothers and millennials
May 09, 2018
Carlo Rovelli's time – a special episode
May 02, 2018
Why does everyone hate Nixon?
May 02, 2018
The risky art of cartooning
Apr 25, 2018
Culture clash
Apr 18, 2018
Empathy: for better, for worse
Apr 11, 2018
The New Elizabethans
Apr 04, 2018
Hyper-liberalism and the 6,000th TLS
Mar 28, 2018
Everyone's a winner – a bonus episode
Mar 28, 2018
On the consciousness of cows
Mar 22, 2018
Ada Lovelace: tech prophet and trophy wife
Mar 15, 2018
Writers and their mothers
Mar 08, 2018
Jewishness: seriously funny
Mar 01, 2018
Prickly, profound Isaac Newton
Feb 22, 2018
Fiona Mozley and Lisa McInerney – at Hay Festival, Cartagena
Feb 21, 2018
Can things only get better?
Feb 15, 2018
Mothers of #MeToo
Feb 08, 2018
Gregory Norminton, an interview
Feb 08, 2018
The 'real' Jane Eyre
Feb 01, 2018
Having a nice day
Jan 25, 2018
Language lolz
Jan 18, 2018
Was Jesus a Buddhist? Well, no...
Jan 11, 2018
The Problem We All Still Live With
Jan 04, 2018
Highlights from 2017
Dec 27, 2017
Arts of the Year 2017
Dec 21, 2017
Darwin: good, bad, ugly
Dec 14, 2017
Critical women
Dec 07, 2017
Dancing with Anthony Powell
Nov 30, 2017
BONUS: Geoff Dyer on Geoff Dyer
Nov 29, 2017
Can Utopia survive 2017?
Nov 23, 2017
The best books of 2017
Nov 16, 2017
A woman's 'Odyssey'
Nov 09, 2017
A brand-new London theatre
Nov 02, 2017
Kathy Acker's guts
Oct 25, 2017
Matthew Arnold's good-bad poetry
Oct 18, 2017
Valeria Luiselli on the US immigration crisis
Oct 18, 2017
Heavy with odours
Oct 11, 2017
Authors of injustice
Oct 04, 2017
Good, bad and loud feminist writing
Sep 27, 2017
Free Speech vs Safe Space: the Great Campus Divide
Sep 27, 2017
Samuel Beckett's turtle-neck, etc
Sep 20, 2017
Matters poetical
Sep 13, 2017
Peter Brook at work
Sep 13, 2017
The world's most mysterious manuscript
Sep 05, 2017
Pop science and Punjabi epics
Aug 30, 2017
Peak bullshit
Aug 16, 2017
India's broken legacy
Aug 09, 2017
Ian Nairn, route master
Aug 02, 2017
Trump and the great car crisis
Jul 26, 2017
Jane Austen at 200
Jul 19, 2017
'Let me be clear...'
Jul 12, 2017
Robert Frost's aggression
Jul 05, 2017
'Who shall we kill today?'
Jun 28, 2017
What to read this summer: an almost-legendary TLS special edition
Jun 21, 2017
The summer of shrug
Jun 14, 2017
Embarrassing questions
Jun 07, 2017
Football and the modern Middle East
May 31, 2017
Is consciousness a thing?
May 24, 2017
How to get rid of your spouse
May 17, 2017
States of the nations
May 10, 2017
#1. If This Is A Man – a live reading of Primo Levi's memoir of Auschwitz
May 03, 2017
Rousseau and the me me me memoir
May 03, 2017
How comics got serious
Apr 26, 2017
Primo Levi speaks
Apr 19, 2017
Beers with James Baldwin
Apr 12, 2017
Poets, cannibals and philosophers
Apr 05, 2017
Not so still lives
Mar 29, 2017
Isherwood, from Weimar Berlin to Hollywood
Mar 23, 2017
A new French Revolution?
Mar 16, 2017
Fragments of the American Dream
Mar 09, 2017
George Saunders on 'Lincoln in the Bardo'
Mar 08, 2017
The Jam's literary credentials
Mar 02, 2017
Anthony Burgess at 100
Feb 22, 2017
Writing The Russian Revolution
Feb 15, 2017
Cowgirls, Hockney, and how to write a bestseller
Feb 08, 2017
The age of mass incarceration
Feb 02, 2017
March on
Jan 26, 2017
Reboots and reputations
Jan 19, 2017
Bad sex, 'the Malala effect', layers of place
Jan 11, 2017
Chilling, glitzy and dark
Jan 05, 2017
The many faces of King’s Cross
Jan 02, 2017
A monster success
Dec 30, 2016
From book to box and beyond
Dec 26, 2016
Overrated/Underrated
Dec 23, 2016
Brexit, bubbles, and the best arts of 2016
Dec 21, 2016
God, sex and the arts / science divide
Dec 15, 2016
Defiance, good death and Mexico
Dec 07, 2016
Controlled violence
Nov 30, 2016
Books of the Year
Nov 23, 2016
Lionel Shriver: "Terror as recreation"
Nov 18, 2016
The life in the work
Nov 16, 2016
Against nature
Nov 09, 2016
Violence and poetry
Nov 03, 2016
Halloween story special
Oct 28, 2016
Shades of censorship
Oct 26, 2016
Ali Smith on Autumn
Oct 21, 2016
Life, writing and life-writing
Oct 19, 2016
The mythical Lévi-Strauss
Oct 12, 2016
A lecture by Terry Eagleton
Oct 07, 2016
Duck or Rabbit?
Oct 05, 2016
Rose Tremain at the Wimbledon Bookfest
Oct 03, 2016
Beatrix Potter, marriage, and data
Sep 28, 2016
Hardy's London & the modern Middle East
Sep 21, 2016
Ideas of Englishness
Sep 14, 2016
Beginnings of life and the end of the NHS
Sep 07, 2016
Clare Lowdon on Safran Foer's great big dazzling novel
Aug 31, 2016
Eimear McBride on The Lesser Bohemians
Aug 23, 2016
Panama Papers, the Nero enigma & women in Hollywood
Aug 17, 2016
Brazil, Bloomsbury, and Geoff Dyer
Aug 10, 2016
Edmund White on Nabokov
Aug 03, 2016
Andrew Motion on Housman
Jul 27, 2016
The view from Istanbul
Jul 20, 2016
Richard Ford on Donald Trump
Jul 13, 2016
Tim Parks on translating Leopardi
Jul 06, 2016
Mary Beard on referenda
Jun 29, 2016
Fiction and the refugee crisis
Jun 22, 2016
Svetlana Alexievich and the Russian-Soviet soul
Jun 06, 2016
Tessa Hadley and Sarah Hall in conversation
Jun 01, 2016
Utopia – Then and Now (live from Kings Place)
May 27, 2016
Gerard Manley Hopkins
May 17, 2016
Casanova's escape
May 16, 2016
Thomas De Quincey
May 13, 2016
Robert Browning's Poetic Characters
Apr 28, 2016
Shakespeare and Cervantes, 400 years on
Apr 22, 2016
Utopia at 500
Apr 20, 2016
Being Jewish, being American
Apr 15, 2016
Oscar Wilde and the Chatterton myth
Mar 07, 2016
Henry James in the TLS
Mar 02, 2016
Mary Beard
Feb 02, 2016
Jane Austen's Emma
Jan 21, 2016
"Tea at the Midland" by David Constantine
Jan 13, 2016
Jacob Tonson's poets
Jan 11, 2016
John Donne
Dec 11, 2015
Vertigo
Dec 09, 2015
Douglas Oliver: a poetic vision of the body politic
Sep 18, 2015
J.H. Prynne: an examination of imagery
Sep 09, 2015
Summer Holidays
Aug 12, 2015
Cycling: tour de force
Jul 23, 2015
Tennis: Game, Sex and Match
Jul 09, 2015
John Fletcher
Jul 03, 2015
Christine Brooke-Rose
Jun 26, 2015
Waterloo
Jun 18, 2015
Byron
May 29, 2015
Anthony Trollope
Apr 22, 2015
Hermione Lee discusses Virginia Woolf
Mar 13, 2015
Ruth Scurr discusses John Aubrey and the art of writing biography
Feb 25, 2015
Robert Herrick and John Evelyn
Jan 21, 2015
Ariel poems
Dec 16, 2014
T. E. Hulme
Nov 19, 2014
Ivor Gurney
Nov 05, 2014
Gabriel-Ernest by Saki
Oct 30, 2014
The Eyes by Edith Wharton
Oct 27, 2014
There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard by M.R. James
Oct 23, 2014
Laurie Lee with Ronald Blythe
Sep 18, 2014
David Collard discusses Flametti by Hugo Ball
Aug 13, 2014
Clive James
Aug 06, 2014
Mary Beard talks Medea at The National Theatre
Jul 30, 2014
Edward Thomas
Jun 25, 2014
Summer Books - Alex Clark on The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Jun 18, 2014
Summer Books - Frances Wilson on What You Want by Constantine Phipps
Jun 15, 2014
Summer Books - Lidija Haas on The Interior Circuit by Francisco Goldman
Jun 13, 2014
Summer Books - Mary Beard on Augustus by John Williams
Jun 11, 2014
Cavafy
May 28, 2014
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Apr 22, 2014
Ian Hamilton
Apr 02, 2014