Possibility and Permission
This week, Toby Lichtig and Lucy Dallas talk to the new winner of the Booker prize, M. John Harrison, about his novel The End of Everything and his life in books. They discuss literary criticism, alie...
12 Nov 28min
October Highlights
This month on the TLS Highlights, we explore literary lives, radical histories, gardens and the arts.Elizabeth Lowry uncovers the untold life of novelist Anita Brookner; Robert Poole introduces a rema...
8 Nov 39min
Feasting on fiction
This week, Toby Lichtig introduces the pick of new fiction; and Nina Raine on adapting George Eliot's Middlemarch for the stage.'The Rhyl Poster', by Tom McCarthy'Doppelganger', by Sam Riviere'The Bri...
5 Nov 45min
Murder Most Foul
This week, Frances Wilson plunges into two biographies of the self-mythologising mystery man Edgar Allan Poe; and Will Eaves joins us to read his poem 'The Cat'.'Darkness Becomes Bright: The haunted l...
29 Okt 35min
The Wind/Yikes Dichotomy
This week, Tristram Fane Saunders praises the form-busting brilliance of new Nobel Laureate Anne Carson; and Lily Herd on shooting stars, shipwrecks and hubris through the ages.Produced by Charlotte P...
22 Okt 43min
Cabbages and kings
This week, David E Cooper on a mammoth history of the garden; and Larry Wolff takes in Macbeth at the Met.'The Garden: Our 4,000-year quest for paradise', by Jonathan Bate'Macbeth', by Giuseppe Verdi,...
15 Okt 52min
Costume Dramas
This week, Sophie Oliver on Rebecca West's struggle with her love of clothing; and Robert Poole introduces us to a dashing 19th-century radical.'A Fable for Christians', by Rebecca West'Mad Tom's Risi...
8 Okt 47min
Outsiders
This week, Patrick McGuinness delves into the moving and illuminating notebooks kept by Albert Camus; and Elizabeth Lowry on the untold lives of novelist Anita Brookner.'The Complete Notebooks', by Al...
1 Okt 1h 3min
