A weekly podcast on books and culture brought to you by the writers and editors of the Times Literar
This week, Mary Beard squares up to the gorefest of Gladiator II; and Alan Hollinghurst in conversat
This week, Lauren Elkin on a Nobel Prize-winner's obsession with images; and Judith Flanders assesse
This week, Toby Lichtig talks to the new Booker Prize-winner Samantha Harvey about her voyage to the
This week, Norma Clarke explores the world of 18th-century chameleon Mary Robinson; and Devoney Loos
This week, Mary Beard reports on the American election from her billet on Pennysylvania Avenue; plus
In a special interview, Lucy Dallas meets artist William Kentridge to explore his new set of films.'
This week, Oonagh Devitt Tremblay is intrigued by the multiple voices in Sarah Moss's new memoir; an
This week, Yoojin Grace Wuertz celebrates this year’s Nobel Laureate in literature, South Korea’s Ha
This week, Lisa Hilton on the truth behind life as a 'grand horizontale'; and Juliette Bretan explor
This week, Larry Wolff admires an opera propelled by drone warfare; and Edward Carey describes how a
This week, we start with Donna Summer and finish with a Scotch Woodcock, as Milo Nesbitt goes in sea
This week, Toby Lichtig previews the season’s fictional highlights; and Ann Manov on Sally Rooney’s
This week, typographer Tom Cook on the fonts of all knowledge; and Graham Daseler explores Billy Wil
This week, Mary Beard joins us to explain why two recently discovered fragments of Euripides are big
This week, medieval spells and modern cures, as we look back at some podcast highlights with Mary C
This week, Lucy and Alex are joined by Amber Massie-Blomfield, who discusses her new book
This week, Lucy and Alex are joined by the novelist David Peace, who explains what drew him to writi
This week, we take a look back at Fintan O'Toole's pre-election assessment of Keir Starmer; and revi
This week, Philip Ball assesses the anxiety about AI - and provides some reassurance; and Jane Robin
This week, Isaac Nowell takes us out in all weathers, Sean O'Brien reads a new poem, and Norma Clark
