This week, TLS editor Martin Ivens and writer and broadcaster James O'Brien on the long decline...
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This week, TLS editor Martin Ivens and writer and broadcaster James O'Brien on the long decline...
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This week, our special interview with the newest winner of the Booker Prize, Paul Lynch; and...
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This week, Mary C Flannery explores the spells and potions of medieval magic; and Jean Wilson on...
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On this week's show, TLS contributors on the best books of 2023; and David Horspool explores the...
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This week, Samantha Harvey joins us to talk about her voyage around the earth; and Miranda France...
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This week, James Marcus goes partying with Susan Sontag and George Steiner; and Laura Beers sheds...
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This week, Colin Jones explores the streets of Paris as the French Revolution grew pace; and an...
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This week, Ruth Scurr on a magnificent biography of Claude Monet; and Fiona Stafford explores how...
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This week, Theo Zenou introduces us to the heroes of Jewish boxing; and Sophie Oliver on the...
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This week, Ysenda Maxtone Graham on the women who fought their way into horticulture; and Mary...
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This week, Elizabeth Lowry is impressed by a study of Hardy’s late-life love poetry; and TLS...
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This week, Jonathan Barnes joins us to explore the visionary work of Quatermass creator Nigel...
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This week, poet Camille Ralphs explains why she submitted to WH Auden's exacting syllabus; and...
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This week, we drop in on a conversation between Mary Beard and two former TLS editors; and Anne...
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This week, Nicola Shulman introduces the volunteer army who joined John Murray to create the OED;...
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This week, Adam Mars-Jones on the "fractal brocade" of his semi-infinite novel series; and Amber...
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The Pursuit Of The Interesting
In the last of our summer round-ups, Gwendoline Riley stalks the streets of London in the company...
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In this week's round-up, we talk to Mary C Flannery about the continuing attraction of the...
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In the second of our summer round-ups, we revisit Richard Smyth discussing the life and the work...
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In the first of our seasonal round-ups, we look back at Stephen Marche on the agonies of the...
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