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A Bengali Polymath and an ‘Accidental Modernist’
50 mins; June 09, 2021
‘But Where’s the Poetry?!’
50 mins; June 02, 2021
D. H. Lawrence in Flames
49 mins; May 26, 2021
Jane Austen and Abolition
49 mins; May 19, 2021
Angela Thirkell’s Relentless Self-Belief
50 mins; May 12, 2021
Pirandello’s Controlled Chaos
50 mins; May 05, 2021
Violence Upon the Roads
50 mins; April 28, 2021
Underground and on the Run
50 mins; April 21, 2021
Getting Shakespeare’s Measure
50 mins; April 14, 2021
Philip Roth, For Better, For Worse, Forever?
49 mins; April 07, 2021
Dreams of America
49 mins; March 31, 2021
Myth-busting, awkwardness, pure Marvellousness
49 mins; March 24, 2021
Vivian Gornick’s Time
49 mins; March 17, 2021
Avoidance and absurdity
48 mins; March 10, 2021
Ishiguro’s AI and Grendel’s Mother
50 mins; March 03, 2021
Nostalgia, Outsiders and "Rubber Tramps"
49 mins; February 24, 2021
Weapons, Grouse and Red Herrings
50 mins; February 17, 2021
Tentatively Pressing
49 mins; February 10, 2021
The Barbara Comyns revival
48 mins; February 03, 2021
BONUS: David Baddiel - Jews Don't Count
31 mins; January 28, 2021
Borges - Encounters and "Encounters"
49 mins; January 27, 2021
Delicate Matters
50 mins; January 20, 2021
Epiphanies and Kidneys
48 mins; January 13, 2021
This is Pakistan
48 mins; January 06, 2021
Jacques Tati’s Serious Gags
48 mins; December 16, 2020
Stalin, little and large
48 mins; December 09, 2020
Beethoven at 250
48 mins; December 02, 2020
BONUS: 2020 Booker Prize Winner - Douglas Stuart
30 mins; November 26, 2020
Neither Victims nor Perpetrators
48 mins; November 25, 2020
Gagged with Ashes
49 mins; November 18, 2020
Gagged with Ashes
48 mins; November 18, 2020
Books of the Year 2020
49 mins; November 11, 2020
You Have Fixed Me
49 mins; November 04, 2020
Terrifyingly True (or Not)
49 mins; October 28, 2020
Classical music conductors: Overpaid, oversexed and over the hill?
26 mins; October 26, 2020
Out Caravaggio-ing Caravaggio
48 mins; October 21, 2020
Dancing on Air
49 mins; October 14, 2020
Milk as Metaphor
49 mins; October 07, 2020
Seduction and Uprisings
48 mins; September 30, 2020
Murder at the Opera
48 mins; September 23, 2020
Books! Books! Books!
37 mins; September 16, 2020
Sex and the City of Ladies
24 mins; September 09, 2020
The TLS, rewind #4
45 mins; August 26, 2020
The TLS, rewind #3
36 mins; August 19, 2020
The TLS, rewind #2
57 mins; August 12, 2020
The TLS, rewind #1
38 mins; August 05, 2020
Climate change, from 'doomism' to optimism
43 mins; July 29, 2020
Life as a Roman emperor
56 mins; July 22, 2020
How the West was written
45 mins; July 15, 2020
Romance versus realism
42 mins; July 08, 2020
The Pet Shop Boys paradox
30 mins; July 01, 2020
Bernardine Evaristo wins again
24 mins; July 01, 2020
Holiday in the living room
48 mins; June 24, 2020
Don’t forget Edward Earl Johnson
55 mins; June 17, 2020
Finding art in lockdown
57 mins; June 10, 2020
Slave driver, the table is turn
56 mins; June 03, 2020
How to be alone
56 mins; May 27, 2020
Townies and gownies
57 mins; May 20, 2020
‘How does it smell?’
52 mins; May 13, 2020
Grotesquely good
59 mins; May 06, 2020
Easy as ABC?
55 mins; April 29, 2020
Godzilla, the plague, etc
55 mins; April 22, 2020
‘It’s not him, it’s us’
45 mins; April 15, 2020
Introducing: Stories of our times
31 mins; April 13, 2020
‘A very peculiar telegram’
51 mins; April 08, 2020
The kangaroo curve
53 mins; April 01, 2020
Tweets, memes and the smell of masculine
53 mins; March 25, 2020
Tales of a century
51 mins; March 20, 2020
Passion projects
55 mins; March 11, 2020
Absolutely worth the hype
49 mins; March 04, 2020
The Mirror & the Light – an extract from Hilary Mantel's new novel
25 mins; February 27, 2020
West Side Storyless
49 mins; February 27, 2020
Vanilla sex in Pompeii
46 mins; February 19, 2020
Can't go on. Go on.
49 mins; February 12, 2020
Anne Enright – a reading from Actress
19 mins; February 12, 2020
Daniel Kehlmann, an interview
29 mins; February 05, 2020
Bringing Tolstoy down
46 mins; February 05, 2020
Carrier bag or stick?
52 mins; January 29, 2020
Byron's oddness
50 mins; January 22, 2020
Huge stars in a minor key
53 mins; January 15, 2020
Bonus episode: Five women, one radical address
34 mins; January 15, 2020
Seen and not heard?
42 mins; January 08, 2020
Apples and oranges in space
50 mins; January 01, 2020
The decade that was
62 hours 21 mins; December 18, 2019
Haunted by Miss Austen
45 mins; December 11, 2019
The Iron Lady and the judo politician
44 mins; December 04, 2019
Hallie Rubenhold – an interview
17 mins; November 27, 2019
Books of the Year, 2019
45 mins; November 27, 2019
Two phat ladies
39 mins; November 20, 2019
Elizabeth Strout – an interview
19 mins; November 20, 2019
How to read
50 mins; November 13, 2019
Cold War machinations
46 mins; November 06, 2019
Morals and mysteries
50 mins; October 30, 2019
Magazine love
55 mins; October 23, 2019
Bernardine Evaristo – winner of the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction
