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Unsettled by Sontag
54 mins; September 25, 2019
The recipe for superstardom
51 mins; September 18, 2019
Is it too late?
43 mins; September 11, 2019
What do the kids say?
36 mins; September 04, 2019
'We should all be interested in pigeons...'
47 mins; August 21, 2019
The most expensive mystery of all
49 mins; August 14, 2019
How to be modern: conspiracy theory, free will and the avant-garde
51 mins; August 07, 2019
‘We don’t know what he has, we don’t know what he’s done with it’
46 mins; July 31, 2019
Nature for sale
48 mins; July 24, 2019
Unromancing the Romantics
53 mins; July 17, 2019
Loving Iris Murdoch
42 mins; July 10, 2019
Who reads John Updike?
53 mins; July 03, 2019
Talk to the hands
48 mins; June 26, 2019
Summer Books 2019
52 mins; June 19, 2019
Russian greats and fictional eats
42 mins; June 12, 2019
Ethical economics
49 mins; June 05, 2019
Weighty matters
47 mins; May 29, 2019
Celestial Bodies – winner of the 2019 Man Booker International prize for fiction
43 mins; May 29, 2019
Victoria at 200
52 mins; May 22, 2019
Knowing laughter
56 mins; May 15, 2019
Journey to the centre of the earth
47 mins; May 08, 2019
To infinities – and beyond
44 mins; May 01, 2019
The life-writing issue
42 mins; April 24, 2019
As we like it
45 mins; April 17, 2019
Ian McEwan – an interview
36 mins; April 17, 2019
Youth injustice system
49 mins; April 10, 2019
Whitechapel and Weimar
38 mins; April 03, 2019
A deep history of Europe
47 mins; March 27, 2019
Forgotten, not gone
44 mins; March 20, 2019
O, the Edward Gorey of it all
54 mins; March 13, 2019
Dave Eggers: The violations start with us
68 hours 28 mins; March 13, 2019
A nose is a nose is a nose…
37 mins; March 06, 2019
Unsilenced voices
50 mins; February 27, 2019
Half glitzy, half dowdy
44 mins; February 20, 2019
Zadie Smith, in conversation
15 mins; February 20, 2019
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: the inaugural Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez lecture
12 mins; February 13, 2019
Narratives of sexual assault
35 mins; February 13, 2019
How Macron went wrong
55 mins; February 06, 2019
‘American Standard’, a new poem by Paul Muldoon
39 mins; January 31, 2019
Everything points north
46 mins; January 30, 2019
Reddit's new religions
56 mins; January 23, 2019
Egos and experiments
46 mins; January 16, 2019
Finer points of murder
46 mins; January 09, 2019
Icons familiar and unfamiliar
41 mins; January 02, 2019
Highlights from 2018 – a bonus episode
75 hours 27 mins; December 26, 2018
Mary Beard's 'Introduction to the Odyssey' – a bonus episode
59 mins; December 26, 2018
Arts of the Year 2018
55 mins; December 19, 2018
Ode to the orca
36 mins; December 12, 2018
Who on earth was William Gilbert?
46 mins; December 05, 2018
Our problem with cows
45 mins; November 28, 2018
The best books of 2018
51 mins; November 21, 2018
Is it accurate to call Donald Trump a fascist?
51 mins; November 14, 2018
WW1: Remembering / forgetting
47 mins; November 07, 2018
Remembering Peterloo
48 mins; October 31, 2018
BONUS: Must read – must buy?
35 mins; October 24, 2018
1844, remember the date...
44 mins; October 24, 2018
Ever-enigmatic Leonardo da Vinci
45 mins; October 17, 2018
An Odyssey for everyone
47 mins; October 10, 2018
Radical Cheltenham and a poem from Paul Muldoon
30 mins; October 03, 2018
Diarmaid MacCulloch on Thomas Cromwell
30 mins; September 26, 2018
Mexico's great disgrace
52 mins; September 26, 2018
Henry James in LA
40 mins; September 19, 2018
On booze and art
37 mins; September 12, 2018
Philip Larkin, beyond the grave
53 mins; September 05, 2018
Too smart for our own good
40 mins; August 22, 2018
Same old gags
45 mins; August 15, 2018
Turn on, tune in, drop out?
43 mins; August 08, 2018
Mind and memory
30 mins; August 01, 2018
Emily Brontë's wuthering wilds
37 mins; July 25, 2018
Women, in and out of control
38 mins; July 18, 2018
Summer Books 2018
38 mins; July 11, 2018
Ode to Lee Child – a bonus episode
27 mins; July 11, 2018
Notes on 50 years of the Man Booker Prize
37 mins; July 04, 2018
An interview with Tim Winton – a bonus episode
25 mins; June 27, 2018
The wildness of Muriel Spark
52 mins; June 27, 2018
Russia's blood games
33 mins; June 20, 2018
Changing your mind and opening the doors
23 mins; June 13, 2018
Rules of law
41 mins; June 13, 2018
Jesmyn Ward’s lyrical fiction - a bonus episode
31 mins; June 07, 2018
Those are pearls . . . and Michael Jackson's performative drama
32 mins; June 06, 2018
Philip Roth and the translatable
52 mins; May 30, 2018
The making of me
32 mins; May 25, 2018
Roman emperors and football managers
45 mins; May 16, 2018
BONUS: Madeline Miller on Circe
27 mins; May 09, 2018
Mothers and millennials
40 mins; May 09, 2018
Carlo Rovelli's time – a special episode
29 mins; May 02, 2018
Why does everyone hate Nixon?
41 mins; May 02, 2018
The risky art of cartooning
45 mins; April 25, 2018
Culture clash
30 mins; April 18, 2018
Empathy: for better, for worse
30 mins; April 11, 2018
The New Elizabethans
34 mins; April 04, 2018
Hyper-liberalism and the 6,000th TLS
42 mins; March 28, 2018
Everyone's a winner – a bonus episode
42 mins; March 28, 2018
On the consciousness of cows
43 mins; March 21, 2018
Ada Lovelace: tech prophet and trophy wife
53 mins; March 14, 2018
Writers and their mothers
38 mins; March 07, 2018
Jewishness: seriously funny
45 mins; February 28, 2018
Prickly, profound Isaac Newton
38 mins; February 21, 2018
Fiona Mozley and Lisa McInerney – at Hay Festival, Cartagena
