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The TLS Podcast

A weekly podcast on books and culture brought to you by the writers and editors of the Times Literary Supplement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Problem We All Still Live With

The Problem We All Still Live With

With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas. We are joined by Patricia Williams, to discuss how black girls are silenced, marginalis... Read more

4 Jan 2018

30mins

Ranked #2

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A lecture by Terry Eagleton

A lecture by Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton gives the Theos annual lecture, on the not un-problematic, not un-high-stakes, and not un-incendiary twin... Read more

7 Oct 2016

41mins

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Alan Jenkins introduces and reads a selection of the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv... Read more

17 May 2016

15mins

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Summer Books 2019

Summer Books 2019

TLS contributors – including David Baddiel, Mary Beard, Paul Muldoon and Elizabeth Lowry – give their seasonal reading r... Read more

19 Jun 2019

52mins

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Edmund White on Nabokov

Edmund White on Nabokov

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Thomas Meaney on death (and what to do with the remains) in the West; Professor Am... Read more

3 Aug 2016

43mins

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The mythical Lévi-Strauss

The mythical Lévi-Strauss

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Adam Kuper on French structuralist and hoarder of myths Claude Lévi-Strauss; Joe P... Read more

12 Oct 2016

44mins

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George Saunders on 'Lincoln in the Bardo'

George Saunders on 'Lincoln in the Bardo'

In this bonus programme, TLS fiction editor Toby Lichtig interviews George Saunders about his first novel, 'Lincoln in t... Read more

8 Mar 2017

20mins

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Mary Beard

Mary Beard

On the 10th anniversary of her blog, A Don's Life, The TLS' Classics Editor Mary Beard joins Rozalind Dineen to discuss ... Read more

2 Feb 2016

16mins

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Zadie Smith, in conversation

Zadie Smith, in conversation

A conversation between the novelist and essayist Zadie Smith and the journalist Carolina, recorded at Hay Festival Carta... Read more

21 Feb 2019

15mins

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Byron

Byron

In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Michael Caines and Roz Dineen celebrate a selection of Byron's Letters and Journals... Read more

29 May 2015

21mins

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Icons familiar and unfamiliar

Icons familiar and unfamiliar

With Stig Abell and Lucy DallasLara Pawson drops in to tell the tale of David Wojnarowicz, the New York artist whose tim... Read more

3 Jan 2019

41mins

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Celestial Bodies – winner of the 2019 Man Booker International prize for fiction

Celestial Bodies – winner of the 2019 Man Booker International prize for fiction

The Omani novelist Jokha al-Harthi and the translator Marilyn Booth won this year's Man Booker International prize for f... Read more

29 May 2019

43mins

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Ruth Scurr discusses John Aubrey and the art of writing biography

Ruth Scurr discusses John Aubrey and the art of writing biography

Ruth Scurr talks about her unconventional approach to writing a biography of John Aubrey, the seventeenth-century biogra... Read more

25 Feb 2015

14mins

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The best books of 2017

The best books of 2017

This week we're joined by TLS editors Lucy Dallas and Toby Lichtig to pick through the "books of the year", as nominated... Read more

16 Nov 2017

43mins

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Writing The Russian Revolution

Writing The Russian Revolution

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Caryl Emerson on poetry and prose forged in the immediacy of the Russian Revolutio... Read more

15 Feb 2017

46mins

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Svetlana Alexievich and the Russian-Soviet soul

Svetlana Alexievich and the Russian-Soviet soul

Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, gives the Elliott Lecture at St Antony's College Oxford, t... Read more

6 Jun 2016

1hr 1min

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The best books of 2018

The best books of 2018

A handful of TLS editors gather for the yearly process of picking through contributors' Books of the Year selections, an... Read more

22 Nov 2018

51mins

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Nature for sale

Nature for sale

Nick Groom ponders the fate of the beleaguered British countryside and shares new theories about the economics of the na... Read more

24 Jul 2019

48mins

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The decade that was

The decade that was

TLS editors gather to consider some of the decade’s major cultural shifts and events, with specialist insights from Mary... Read more

19 Dec 2019

1hr 2mins

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Emily Brontë's wuthering wilds

Emily Brontë's wuthering wilds

To mark 200 years since Emily Brontë’s birth, we are joined by Robert Potts and Jacqueline Banerjee to look back at Bron... Read more

25 Jul 2018

37mins

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