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Episodes

Total: 575

Kirsty Gunn considers Katherine Mansfield’s place in the literary canon.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/ar

This week, Gabriel Roberts explores the past, present and - we very much hope - the future of bioabu

A Sea-Brooding Poet

2023/1/16

Christy Edwall reflects on a meditations on Keats’s poems, and a new account of his last days.https:

Radical Barbie

2023/1/9

Olivia Laing secrets and lies in the life and work of Kathy Acker.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles

This week, Lucy Lethbridge explains what a curate's eye is, and how ideas of British cooking range f

Simon McBurney, the artistic director of the endlessly innovative and influential Complicité th

The Power of Connections

2022/12/15

This week, we hear how the music-hall star Josephine Baker became a secret agent; and we talk to Sim

The Road To St Helena

2022/12/11

Alan Forrest on Napoleon’s enemies at home and abroad.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/napoleon-mi

This week, Breeze Barrington takes us through a history of art with a difference - there are no men;

His Biggest Role

2022/12/4

Anna Reid on the improbable rise of Volodymyr Zelenskyhttps://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/volodymyr-z

This week, Mary Beard talks us through coins and emperors, real and fake, and the hidden networks be

Conquering Sociopaths

2022/11/28

Michele Pridmore-Brown on the troubled dreams of the gods of the digital universehttps://www.the-tls

This week, Baillie Gifford Prizewinner Katherine Rundell describes how John Donne’s life force capti

End Of The Road

2022/11/20

George Berridge on Cormac McCarthy’s long-awaited diptych of conspiracy and nuclear anxiet

Bearing Witness To Terror

2022/11/17

This week, we discuss Emmanuel Carrère’s incisive account of France’s judicial response to the Batac

Tinker, Tailor, Lover, Spy

2022/11/13

Robert Potts considers the inconstancies of John le Carré.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/a

Men On A Mission

2022/11/10

This week, Alex Clark and Lucy Dallas explore the rise to prominence of Volodymyr Zelensky, the sati

One Step Beyond

2022/11/6

Colin Thubron on an anthology of human beings straining at the limits.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/arti

This week André Aciman toasts the genius of Marcel Proust, a century after his death; and Richard Le

Big Unfriendly Giant

2022/10/30

Sam Leith on Roald Dahl’s life of plane crashes, bunk-ups, secret agenting – and children’s writingh