The TLS Podcast

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Episodes

Total: 585

Casanova's escape

2016/5/16

Adrian Tahourdin and Mika Ross-Southall dip their toes in Casanova's celebrated memoirs.Find out mor

Thomas De Quincey

2016/5/13

Catharine Morris and Michael Caines take a look at the English essayist, best known for his Confessi

Sam Graydon looks at the poet Robert Browning, exploring the major role he played in the development

To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare and Cervantes, Mika Ross-Southall introduc

Utopia at 500

2016/4/20

Michael Caines and Lucy Dallas take a tour of Thomas More's imaginary commonwealth, where private pr

Toby Lichtig talks to Morris Dickstein about the ever-evolving relationship between Judaism and Amer

Mika Ross-Southall and Michael Caines look at the enduring appeal of Thomas Chatterton, an icon of t

Henry James in the TLS

2016/3/2

To mark the centenary of Henry James's death, Catharine Morris and Michael Caines trace the course o

Mary Beard

2016/2/2

On the 10th anniversary of her blog, A Don's Life, The TLS' Classics Editor Mary Beard joins Rozalin

Jane Austen's Emma

2016/1/21

Michael Caines and Catharine Morris celebrate the bicentenary of Jane Austen's magnificent novel and

Michael Caines reads a short story about a man and a woman taking tea, watching the surfers at Morec

Jacob Tonson's poets

2016/1/11

A selection of poems by Aphra Behn, John Milton, Alexander Pope and the Earl of Rochester.Read by Mi

John Donne

2015/12/11

John Donne was the greatest English dramatic poet who never wrote a play. Here, Alan Jenkins reads a

Vertigo

2015/12/9

Vertigo special: Toby Lichtig of The TLS introduces David Collard who compares Alfred Hitchcock's fi

Michael Caines looks back to Douglas Oliver's long poem The Infant and the Pearl, first published in

We discuss a poem by J.H. Prynne called To Pollen, from 2006, which conducts its own examination of

Summer Holidays

2015/8/12

“August for the people and their favourite islands”, said W.H. Auden in 1935, with the Isle of Wight

Cycling: tour de force

2015/7/23

David Horspool and Lucy Dallas take an in-depth look at the world of cycling literature. Find out mo

In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Michael Caines and Mika Ross-Southall look at how tennis has in

John Fletcher

2015/7/3

In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Mika Ross-Southall and Michael Caines consider Shakespeare's co