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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

A "new" ending to a Nabokov novel and the unregarded first volume of Vasily Grossman's epic, the "So

Ethical economics

2019/6/5

If capitalism is broken, can it be fixed? And can it save the environment? Joseph E. Stiglitz discus

The Omani novelist Jokha al-Harthi and the translator Marilyn Booth won this year's Man Booker

Weighty matters

2019/5/29

Anna Katharina Schaffner on the cultural history of fat and fat phobia; the TLS's travel editor Cath

Victoria at 200

2019/5/22

To mark the bicentenary of Queen Victoria's birth, the TLS's history editor David Horspool guides us

Knowing laughter

2019/5/15

The comedian and writer Helen Lederer joins us to discuss gender and comedy and the new Comedy Women

Robert Macfarlane joins us to discuss our "peculiar times", the memory of ice, and the world beneath

As Avengers: Endgame is released, Roz Kaveney sweeps us through the shifting cast of superheroes and

The life-writing issue

2019/4/24

Ruth Scurr on the master biographer Robert A. Caro, whose subjects include Robert Moses, Lyndon

As we like it

2019/4/17

There is only one author to whom the TLS devotes an issue every year: William Shakespeare. Mich

The novelist discusses his new book Machines Like Me with the TLS's fiction editor Toby Lichtig Host

Youth injustice system

2019/4/10

Shauneen Lambe on ephibiphobia, fear of the teenager, and why we get youth justice wrong; Alice Bloc

Whitechapel and Weimar

2019/4/3

Anna Picard discusses the problems of subject matter and sensationalism in the new opera Jack the Ri

A deep history of Europe

2019/3/28

Richard Fortey takes us on an energetic sprint through 65 million years of Europe's complex biologic

Forgotten, not gone

2019/3/21

Carol Tavris considers new approaches to the old problem of old age (and the newer problem of old ol

“What we often forget in the daily drumbeat of abuses by the dominant tech companies is our complici

Phil Baker guides us through the morbid, wistful and yet immensely charming world of the writer and

David Coward celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of Cyrano de Bergerac, whose radical

Unsilenced voices

2019/2/28

With Stig Abell and Lucy DallasToby Lichtig comes in to talk the wide scope of Jewish culture, the “

Half glitzy, half dowdy

2019/2/21

The writer and comedian Charlie Higson, half of the team behind The Fast Show, on the curious h