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

Episodes

Total: 575

The movie we want it to be
2021/7/21

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas as joined by Keith Hopper, a critic of film and

Insiders, outsiders and insider-outsiders
2021/7/15

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Noo Saro-Wiwa, the author of ‘Looking for T

No Ideas, But in Things
2021/7/11

In this bonus TLS long read, the writer Joyce Carol Oates explores the quintessential American minim

Proust's Way
2021/7/7

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Adam Watt, Professor of French and Comparat

Strange Worlds of Their Own
2021/6/30

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the novelist Margaret Drabble to consider t

Robots Working, Humans Reading
2021/6/23

This week: How far off is a world in which robots do most of our jobs? Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dall

Mozart the Happy Harlequin and Lost British Labourism
2021/6/16

This week, Lucy Dallas and Toby Lichtig are joined by Paul Griffiths to discuss the beauty and grace

A Bengali Polymath and an ‘Accidental Modernist’
2021/6/9

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Rosinka Chaudhuri, the author of

‘But Where’s the Poetry?!’
2021/6/2

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Michael Caines are joined by the critic and literary scholar Marjorie

D. H. Lawrence in Flames
2021/5/27

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Gerri Kimber to discuss a bold new biograph

Jane Austen and Abolition
2021/5/20

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Devoney Looser, Regents Professor of Englis

Angela Thirkell’s Relentless Self-Belief
2021/5/12

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Dinah Birch, Professor of English Literatur

Pirandello’s Controlled Chaos
2021/5/5

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Ann Hallamore Caesar to mark 100 years sinc

Violence Upon the Roads
2021/4/28

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Patricia Craig, a writer and critic from No

Underground and on the Run
2021/4/21

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Patricia J. Williams to discuss ‘Giving a D

Getting Shakespeare’s Measure
2021/4/14

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studie

Philip Roth, For Better, For Worse, Forever?
2021/4/7

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Elaine Showalter, Professor Emerita of Engl

Dreams of America
2021/3/31

This week, Lucy Dallas and Toby Lichtig are joined by Mary Norris, a New Yorker and editor at - what

Myth-busting, awkwardness, pure Marvellousness
2021/3/25

Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the historian Mark Mazower, who presents new approache

Vivian Gornick’s Time
2021/3/18

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the critic and novelist Claire Lowdon to co