The Last Asylums
Clair Wills talks to Tom about Netherne psychiatric hospital, where her mother and grandparents worked, and which became a national centre for art therapy. Wills asks how asylums such as Netherne – ‘t...
16 Nov 202159min
Elizabethan True Crime
Tom talks to Charles Nicholl about the craze in the 1590s for plays representing real-life murder on the London stage, from the first known example, Arden of Faversham, to the genre's influence on Ham...
2 Nov 202151min
On John Craxton
Rosemary Hill talks to Tom about the painter John Craxton: why he wasn’t a romantic, why he wasn’t interested in being famous, and his relationship with Lucian Freud, who very much was. Hosted on Acas...
19 Okt 202130min
On Christopher Ricks
Tom talks to Colin Burrow about a new book by Christopher Ricks, regarded by some as the greatest living literary critic. They also look back at his previous studies of, among others, Milton, T.S. Eli...
5 Okt 202138min
The Peter Thiel Paradox
David Runciman talks to Thomas Jones about Silicon Valley’s best known investor-provocateur, his prescience, his mistakes, and why, despite his ultra-libertarian ideology, he owes so much to the state...
21 Sep 202139min
'Swish! Swish! Swish!' by Patrick Leigh Fermor, read by Dominic West
Dominic West reads Patrick Leigh Fermor's piece about the olive harvest on the Mani peninsula, written in the 1950s but first published in 2021 in the LRB. Read it here: https://lrb.me/leighfermorpod ...
14 Sep 202121min
Kokumi
Daniel Soar talks to Thomas Jones about the sixth taste, variously translated as ‘mouthfulness’, ‘thickness’ and ‘lingeringness’, apparently discovered by the Japanese company Ajinomoto, and its origi...
7 Sep 202140min
Lydia Davis: One French City
Lydia Davis reads her essay on Arles, recorded for the Trilling Lecture at Columbia University in 2019. Read the piece here: https://lrb.me/lydiadavisarlespod Subscribe to the LRB and get a 79% discou...
31 Aug 202148min
