Katherine Rundell: Consider the Swift
Katherine Rundell reads her study of the common swift, which flies about two million kilometres in its lifetime. You can find all Katherine Rundell's pieces on animals for the LRB here: https://lrb.me...
23 Kesä 20208min
Gaby Wood: How to Draw an Albatross
Gaby Wood reads her diary from the latest issue of the LRB, in which she tries to draw an albatross using a camera lucida. Read the diary and much more in a latest issue: https://lrb.me/latestlrb Subs...
16 Kesä 202021min
‘No, I’m not getting married!’
Susan Pedersen talks to Joanna Biggs about Shelagh Delaney and her landmark 1958 play, A Taste of Honey. Read Susan Pedersen on Shelagh Delaney in the LRB: https://lrb.me/delaneypod Subscribe to the L...
9 Kesä 202043min
On Georges Simenon
John Lanchester talks to Thomas Jones about Georges Simenon, whose output was so prodigious that even he didn’t know how many books he wrote. Find links to related articles and a full transcript on th...
2 Kesä 202038min
Reopening the NHS
Sonia Gandhi and Rupert Beale, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, talk to Thomas Jones about the ways Covid-19 can affect the nervous system, the steps required to reopen the NHS after lockdow...
26 Touko 202031min
Semi-Recumbent in Bournemouth
Andrew O’Hagan talks to Thomas Jones about the friendship between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, and the time they spent together in Bournemouth. Find a full transcript of this episode and li...
19 Touko 202037min
The Theory Truce
Michael Wood talks to Adam Shatz about critical theory, its origins, developments and various diversions, and where it stands today. The conversation marks the publication of the eighth volume in the ...
12 Touko 202058min
This Bad Business
Colm Tóibín talks to Thomas Jones about the breakdown of Elizabeth Hardwick’s marriage to Robert Lowell, and its literary consequences. Find the pieces mentioned in this episode here: lrb.me/toibinhar...
5 Touko 202032min
