Ranked #1
Andrew O'Hagan: Julian Assange
Andrew O'Hagan: Julian Assange
Andrew O’Hagan spent six months with Julian Assange helping him write his autobiography, though in the event Assange did... Read more
6 Mar 2014
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #2
Colm Tóibín: In Conversation
Colm Tóibín: In Conversation
Author, essayist and poet Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland’s greatest living writers. He discusses his life and work, inclu... Read more
30 Aug 2013
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1hr 1min
Ranked #3
Mary Beard: From Medusa to Merkel
Mary Beard: From Medusa to Merkel
Mary Beard delivers her lecture ‘Women in Power’ at the British Museum.Read Mary Beard in the LRB: https://lrb.me/beardp... Read more
16 Mar 2017
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1hr 13mins
Ranked #4
The View from Salvador
The View from Salvador
Forrest Hylton talks to Thomas Jones about what’s happening in Brazil: the oxygen shortage in Manaus, Bolsonaro’s disast... Read more
9 Feb 2021
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45mins
Ranked #5
Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald
Jenny Turner on Penelope Fitzgerald Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
19 Dec 2013
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12mins
Ranked #6
Julian Barnes: Selfie with ‘Sunflowers’
Julian Barnes: Selfie with ‘Sunflowers’
Julian Barnes on Van Gogh.Read Julian Barnes in the LRB: https://lrb.me/barnespodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://... Read more
29 Jul 2015
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22mins
Ranked #7
Ferdinand Mount: Staffing the Raj
Ferdinand Mount: Staffing the Raj
Ferdinand Mount on how India was governed strictly for the benefit of Britain.Read more by Ferdinand Mount in the LRB: l... Read more
6 Sep 2017
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36mins
Ranked #8
In Conversation: On John Berger
In Conversation: On John Berger
To mark John Berger’s 90th birthday, the London Review Bookshop and Verso Books organised a discussion of his work with ... Read more
4 Jan 2017
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #9
Anne Enright: The Genesis of Blame
Anne Enright: The Genesis of Blame
Anne Enright delivers her Winter Lecture on the corruptions of the Adam and Eve story in her LRB Winter Lecture, deliver... Read more
28 Feb 2018
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36mins
Ranked #10
In Conversation: Jacqueline Rose on Sylvia Plath, feminism, Proust, psychoanalysis, Zionism and more
In Conversation: Jacqueline Rose on Sylvia Plath, feminism, Proust, psychoanalysis, Zionism and more
Recognised for her writing on subjects including Sylvia Plath, feminism, Proust, psychoanalysis, Zionism, the Middle Eas... Read more
31 Aug 2013
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55mins
Ranked #11
Mary Beard: The Public Voice of Women
Mary Beard: The Public Voice of Women
Mary Beard reflects on the way women are heard – and have been heard – in public, from Homer’s Odyssey through Margaret ... Read more
20 Mar 2014
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1hr 30mins
Ranked #12
In Conversation: Jacqueline Rose on Rosa Luxemburg and Marilyn Monroe
In Conversation: Jacqueline Rose on Rosa Luxemburg and Marilyn Monroe
Jacqueline Rose draws parallels between revolutionary 19th-century socialist Rosa Luxemburg and Hollywood icon Marilyn M... Read more
30 Aug 2013
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55mins
Ranked #13
At the Movies
At the Movies
Michael Wood reconsiders ‘Cleopatra’ – its expense, its quarrelling stars, its length, its success – on the release of a... Read more
7 Aug 2013
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8mins
Ranked #14
The LRB at 40: Katrina Forrester and William Davies on the crisis of liberalism
The LRB at 40: Katrina Forrester and William Davies on the crisis of liberalism
As part of our series of events marking the LRB's 40th anniversary, Katrina Forrester and William Davies discuss politic... Read more
25 Oct 2019
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1hr 6mins
Ranked #15
In Conversation: Long-Form Essays in the Digital Age
In Conversation: Long-Form Essays in the Digital Age
Mary-Kay Wilmers, Andrew O’Hagan and Ben Eastham talk to Sarah Howe about ‘Long-Form Essays in the Digital Age’.Sign up ... Read more
11 Aug 2016
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46mins
Ranked #16
The LRB at 40: Nell Dunn, Tessa Hadley and Joanna Biggs on women in fiction
The LRB at 40: Nell Dunn, Tessa Hadley and Joanna Biggs on women in fiction
As part of a series of events marking the LRB's 40th anniversary, Nell Dunn and Tessa Hadley talk to Joanna Biggs, one o... Read more
5 Nov 2019
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53mins