Telling It Like It Is
Richard Smyth remembers the equanimity and attentiveness of Ronald Blythe; and Mary Flannery on the enduring appeal of Alison, the Wife of Bath.‘Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside’ ...
26 Jan 202350min
Stories That Simply Unfold
Kirsty Gunn considers Katherine Mansfield’s place in the literary canon.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/all-sorts-of-lives-katherine-mansfield-claire-harman-book-review-kirsty-gunn/ Hosted on Acast...
22 Jan 202317min
Rattling The Handle On Life
This week, Gabriel Roberts explores the past, present and - we very much hope - the future of bioabundance in animal species; and novelist Gwendoline Riley takes us into the affecting and brutally fun...
19 Jan 202352min
A Sea-Brooding Poet
Christy Edwall reflects on a meditations on Keats’s poems, and a new account of his last days.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/a-greeting-of-the-spirit-susan-wolfson-written-in-water-alessandro-gall...
16 Jan 202316min
Radical Barbie
Olivia Laing secrets and lies in the life and work of Kathy Acker.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/eat-your-mind-kathy-acker-jason-mcbride-book-review-olivia-laing/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
9 Jan 202325min
Festive Shadows and Feasts of Panackelty
This week, Lucy Lethbridge explains what a curate's eye is, and how ideas of British cooking range from Aga fantasies to bacon butties; and J. S. Barnes takes us to the dark side of the festive season...
22 Dec 202243min
Simon McBurney of Complicité - "We've always been interested in the idea of connection"
Simon McBurney, the artistic director of the endlessly innovative and influential Complicité theatre company, talks to Lucy Dallas about two of their major new projects. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
18 Dec 202239min
The Power of Connections
This week, we hear how the music-hall star Josephine Baker became a secret agent; and we talk to Simon McBurney of Complicité theatre company, about their haunting audio production of Susan Cooper's T...
15 Dec 202247min
