The LRB Podcast

Rupert Beale talks again to Thomas Jones about his work at the Francis Crick Institute, where he’s helping to set up a testing lab for Covid-19. He talks about the challenges of creating a scalable pr...

6 Apr 202034min

Erin Maglaque talks to Thomas Jones about the lockdown imposed by the city of Florence in January 1631 in response to a plague outbreak, the similarities with our current situation, and the difference...

30 Mar 202039min

Following his piece for the LRB about Covid-19, Rupert Beale talks to Thomas Jones about what the novel coronavirus is, how well countries are dealing with it, and what hopes there are for stopping th...

13 Mar 202042min

Akihito, who abdicated in April, was a paradoxical figure: a hereditary monarch, the son of the wartime emperor, Hirohito, strictly barred from political utterance, who even so stood out against the h...

11 Mar 20201h 14min

Given what we know about the future of the planet, is having children a matter of consumer choice, of political conviction, or something an authority will eventually decide for us? Meehan Crist explor...

26 Feb 20201h 24min

The line between making a fiction and telling a lie has been blurry at least since Homer, and liars – from Odysseus and Iago to Austen’s Wickham and beyond – have often played central parts within fic...

12 Feb 20201h 10min

Alan Bennett reads his Diary for 2019, with a few little extra bits. Read more by Alan Bennett in the LRB: lrb.me/bennettpod Subscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b Hosted...

23 Des 201932min

In the last of a series of events marking the LRB's 40th anniversary, Jeremy Harding and Adam Shatz talk to Nikita Lalwani about their work for the paper, with a focus on North Africa and the Middle E...

7 Nov 20191h 10min