Hardy's London & the modern Middle East
With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Mark Ford on Thomas Hardy's unlikely London romance; Hirsh Sawhney on Aravind Adiga's captivating new novel and his messy portrait of India; to tie in with a spec...
21 Syys 201647min
Ideas of Englishness
With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas.Including Ferdinand Mount on what defines England and its inhabitants;David Horspool on responses to Hitler and his ideas; and Mika Ross-Southall on Nick Cave's savagel...
14 Syys 201651min
Beginnings of life and the end of the NHS
With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas.Raymond Tallis on the ongoing threat to the NHS; Bee Wilson on descriptions of pregnancy and childbirth; and Marjorie Perloff on seeing O.J. Simpson as Othello. Hosted ...
7 Syys 201643min
Clare Lowdon on Safran Foer's great big dazzling novel
With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas: Clare Lowdon on Safran Foer's great big dazzling novel; Mary Beard on what makes Classics relevant; and Can Dundar on being imprisoned by the Turkish state for telling...
31 Elo 201646min
Eimear McBride on The Lesser Bohemians
Toby Lichtig from The TLS chats to author Eimear McBride about her latest novel, The Lesser Bohemians. Find out more: the-tls.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
23 Elo 201639min
Panama Papers, the Nero enigma & women in Hollywood
With Thea Lenarduzzi and Toby Lichtig – Edward Luttwak on the global unravelling occasioned by the Panama Papers; Mary Beard on the enigmatic Emperor Nero, matricidal monster and lover of music; and H...
17 Elo 201637min
Brazil, Bloomsbury, and Geoff Dyer
With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Patrick Wilcken brings us the real Brazil, a country at breaking point; Francesca Wade considers the radical interior designs, and desires, of the Bloomsbury Grou...
10 Elo 201643min
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 Amy Knight on how Putin keeps getting away with murder; Edmund White reconsiders P...
3 Elo 201643min
