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Episodes

Total: 575

The life in the work

2016/11/16

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Seamus Perry on the difficult, "spiritually dyspeptic" life an

Against nature

2016/11/9

With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas:Mary Beard shares her experience of election night in America; Mark

Violence and poetry

2016/11/3

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – our History editor David Horspool on the (uniquely?) violent E

Halloween story special

2016/10/28

With Stig Abell, Thea Lenarduzzi and Michael Caines.Three extracts of spooky stories for Halloween.

Shades of censorship

2016/10/26

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Elaine Showalter on how extreme misogyny turned Clinton vs Tru

Ali Smith on Autumn

2016/10/21

Toby Lichtig talks to Ali Smith about her new novel, Autumn; plus, an exclusive extract read by the

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Ruth Scurr on Beryl Bainbridge's life, love and works; Jessica

The mythical Lévi-Strauss

2016/10/12

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Adam Kuper on French structuralist and hoarder of myths Claude

Terry Eagleton gives the Theos annual lecture, on the not un-problematic, not un-high-stakes, and no

Duck or Rabbit?

2016/10/5

With Stig Abel and Thea Lenarduzzi: Tim Crane guides us through our philosophy special edition (incl

The novelist in conversation, with Michael Caines, about her latest novel, The Gustav Sonata, and fo

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Marcia Zug on marriage in America (plus the pros and cons of m

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Mark Ford on Thomas Hardy's unlikely London romance; Hirsh Saw

Ideas of Englishness

2016/9/14

With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas.Including Ferdinand Mount on what defines England and its inhabitant

With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas.Raymond Tallis on the ongoing threat to the NHS; Bee Wilson on descr

With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas: Clare Lowdon on Safran Foer's great big dazzling novel; Mary Beard

Toby Lichtig from The TLS chats to author Eimear McBride about her latest novel, The Lesser Bohemian

With Thea Lenarduzzi and Toby Lichtig – Edward Luttwak on the global unravelling occasioned by the P

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Patrick Wilcken brings us the real Brazil, a country at breaki

Edmund White on Nabokov

2016/8/3

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Thomas Meaney on death (and what to do with the remains) in th