Ranked #1
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
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30mins
Ranked #2
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
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41mins
Ranked #3
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
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15mins
Ranked #4
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
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52mins
Ranked #5
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
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43mins
Ranked #6
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
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44mins
Ranked #7
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
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20mins
Ranked #8
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
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16mins
Ranked #9
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
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15mins
Ranked #10
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
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21mins
Ranked #11
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
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41mins
Ranked #12
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
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43mins
Ranked #13
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
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14mins
Ranked #14
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
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43mins
Ranked #15
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
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46mins
Ranked #16
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
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1hr 1min
Ranked #17
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
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51mins
Ranked #18
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
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48mins
Ranked #19
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
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #20
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
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37mins