London Review Podcasts

Encounters with Medieval Women: Firebrand

In the fourth and final episode in their miniseries, Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley look at...

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Elizabethan True Crime

Tom talks to Charles Nicholl about the craze in the 1590s for plays representing real-life murder...

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Encounters with Medieval Women: Storyteller

In the third episode in their series, Irina and Mary discuss Chaucer’s sexually voracious...

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On John Craxton

Rosemary Hill talks to Tom about the painter John Craxton: why he wasn’t a romantic, why he...

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Encounters with Medieval Women: Anchoress

In the second episode in their series, Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley look at the work of...

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On Christopher Ricks

Tom talks to Colin Burrow about a new book by Christopher Ricks, regarded by some as the greatest...

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Encounters with Medieval Women: Repentant Sinner

In the first episode of their new podcast miniseries looking at the lives and voices of medieval...

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The Peter Thiel Paradox

David Runciman talks to Thomas Jones about Silicon Valley’s best known investor-provocateur, his...

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'Swish! Swish! Swish!' by Patrick Leigh Fermor, read by Dominic West

Dominic West reads Patrick Leigh Fermor's piece about the olive harvest on the Mani peninsula,...

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Kokumi

Daniel Soar talks to Thomas Jones about the sixth taste, variously translated as...

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Lydia Davis: One French City

Lydia Davis reads her essay on Arles, recorded for the Trilling Lecture at Columbia University in...

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Colm Tóibín: Alone in Venice

Colm Tóibín reads his diary from November 2020, about visiting Venice during the pandemic. Read...

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Rosemary Hill: ‘Populist Palatial’

In the first of four summer readings visiting different places in Europe, Rosemary Hill explores...

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What Just Happened?

David Trotter talks to Joanne O’Leary about the novels and stories of Elizabeth Bowen, from her...

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The Most Interesting Place in the World

Stephen Frears talks to Andrew O’Hagan about making movies in America, to mark the publication of...

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Running, Diving, Bleeding

John Lanchester talks to Thomas Jones about ‘visible’ cheating in sport, that is, the kind which...

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Seized Up

Pooja Bhatia talks to Thomas Jones about the assassination of President Moïse in Haiti, the...

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Two Utopias

James Meek talks to Thomas Jones about the connected fates of two wind tower factories, one in...

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Ultimate Outsider

Toril Moi talks to Joanna Biggs about the French philosopher Simone Weil, whose short and...

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Ethel and Julius

Deborah Friedell talks to Thomas Jones about the Rosenbergs, from their early years on the Lower...

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