The making of me
We’re joined by the novelist Margaret Drabble, whose books have for decades chronicled the difficult path to selfhood, particularly for women, and the actor and writer Robert Webb, whose recent memoir...
25 Touko 201832min
Roman emperors and football managers
The world is being slowly poisoned, the environment destroyed. Why don’t we care about such an apocalypse more? Clare Saxby joins us to discuss; Mary Beard considers the cultural legacy of Caligula, t...
16 Touko 201845min
BONUS: Madeline Miller on Circe
Lucy Dallas is joined by Madeline Miller to discuss her new book, Circe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
9 Touko 201827min
Mothers and millennials
With Stig Abell and Lucy DallasReal-life millennial Samuel Earle pops in to consider the status of young people in an unequal society, keeping avocado references to a minimum; Ruth Scurr analyses the ...
9 Touko 201840min
Carlo Rovelli's time – a special episode
In popular science books, including 'Seven Brief Lessons on Physics' and 'Reality Is Not What It Seems', the Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli has studied the phenomena – namely time and spa...
2 Touko 201829min
Why does everyone hate Nixon?
How do we account for Richard Nixon's stubborn unpopularity? Sure, he was a liar and a crook, but that has not stopped the rehabilitation of many a politician – as a new biography appears Barton Swaim...
2 Touko 201841min
The risky art of cartooning
Martin Rowson, cartoonist for the Guardian and elsewhere, joins us to discuss caricature as political hit-job; the TLS's Arts editor Lucy Dallas considers the jolly japes and scrapes of the Beano, as ...
25 Huhti 201845min
Culture clash
With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas. Lionel Shriver castigates the arrogant British for snootiness over American English; David Coward tells the story of Simon Leys, "the man who did for Mao" and who call...
18 Huhti 201830min
