A Covid Update
Rupert Beale returns to the podcast to talk to Tom about the current state of SARS-CoV-2 in the UK. They discuss what ‘living with Covid’ means, the chances of future waves and lockdowns, the differen...
17 Maj 202236min
Women on the Brink
Azadeh Moaveni talks to Tom about the situation on the Polish border, where women and children fleeing Ukraine face numerous dangers, including kidnapping, trafficking and forced labour. Moaveni descr...
11 Maj 202241min
Julian Barnes: Flaubert at 200
Julian Barnes reads his memoir about a lifetime of reading Flaubert. Read the piece, and listen to the reading without ads, here: https://lrb.me/flaubertpod Subscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue...
3 Maj 202249min
Romantic History: Waterloo to the British Musem
In the final episode in our series looking at the way history was transformed in the Romantic period, Neil MacGregor joins Rosemary Hill to discuss the circulation of artefacts throughout Europe in th...
26 Apr 202257min
Mix Tapes and Flash Cubes
Andrew O’Hagan talks to Tom about the power of defunct objects, from the life-enhancing gadgets of his childhood to Seamus Heaney’s fax machine, and the role lost things play in fiction. Find Andrew O...
19 Apr 202238min
Romantic History: The Bayeux Tapestry
Who put the arrow in Harold’s eye? Why did Dick Whittington have a cat? Where did the pointed arch come from? These are all questions that the curious and energetic antiquarians of the late 18th and e...
12 Apr 20221h
What the Welsh got right
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite talks to Tom about how events in the 1960s, including the Aberfan disaster and a shift in strategy by the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru, helped pave the way for de...
5 Apr 202243min
Weapons of War
Tom Stevenson talks to Thomas Jones about the situation in Ukraine, the effectiveness of some of the weapons in use, from anti-tank missiles to economic sanctions, and the risk of nuclear escalation. ...
29 Mars 202250min
