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Episodes

Total: 575

The best books of 2017

2017/11/16

This week we're joined by TLS editors Lucy Dallas and Toby Lichtig to pick through the "books of the

A woman's 'Odyssey'

2017/11/9

We're joined this week by the TLS's Classics editor Mary Beard to discuss Emily Wilson's new transla

With Toby Lichtig and Lucy Dallas – London has a brand-new theatre: the Bridge, the latest venture b

Kathy Acker's guts

2017/10/25

Georgina Colby joins us in the studio to discuss our growing recognition of the punk writer Kathy Ac

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – The Mexican-born novelist Valeria Luiselli joins us to discuss

The Mexican-born novelist Valeria Luiselli joins us to discuss her new book, Tell Me How It Ends: An

Heavy with odours

2017/10/11

Joining Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas this week: Muriel Zagha, to discuss the redolent funk of French c

Authors of injustice

2017/10/4

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – As a new anthology of stories brings the thrills-and-chills o

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – "For every competent feminist book”, Camille Paglia wrote in 1

A bonus episode: Stig Abell hosts a debate at the Brooklyn Literary Festival in which the New Yorker

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Would you take fashion advice from Beckett? Was John Updike

Matters poetical

2017/9/13

With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas - we are in the studio with Ian Thomson discussing the unlikely coll

Peter Brook at work

2017/9/13

In this bonus episode, visionary director Peter Brook talks about his life in the theatre – and expl

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – The meaning of the 15th-century Voynich manuscript – a stran

With Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas – Alexander van Tulleken on what makes popular science books –

Peak bullshit

2017/8/16

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – We're joined in the studio by Sam Leith, Literary editor of t

India's broken legacy

2017/8/9

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Novelist Neel Mukherjee discusses the vexed state of Modern I

Ian Nairn, route master

2017/8/2

With Lucy Dallas and Toby Lichtig. The TLS critic David Collard explores the idiosyncratic worlds of

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Former US Government consultant Edward Luttwak explains how th

Jane Austen at 200

2017/7/19

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – We're joined in the studio by Claire Harman, author of Jane's