The LRB Podcast
The London Review of Books
The LRB Podcast brings you weekly conversations from Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas. Hosted by Thomas Jones and Malin Hay, with guest episodes from the LRB's US editor Adam Shatz, Meehan Crist, Rosemary Hill and more.
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From the LRB
Subscribe to the LRB: https://lrb.me/subslrbpod
Close Readings podcast: https://lrb.me/crlrbpod
LRB Audiobooks: https://lrb.me/audiobookslrbpod
Bags, binders and more at the LRB Store: https://lrb.me/storelrbpod
Get in touch: podcasts@lrb.co.uk
Episodes
Mentioned books
Feb 1, 2013 • 1h 31min
Shakespeare: Our Contemporary? With Colin Burrow, Michael Dobson, James Shapiro, Emma Smith and Marina Warner
Colin Burrow, Michael Dobson, James Shapiro, Emma Smith and Marina Warner discuss the ways we continue to make (and occasionally unmake) Shakespeare in our own image. Introduced by Neil MacGregor and recorded at the British Museum. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 3, 2013 • 18min
Alan Bennett: Diary for 2012
Alan Bennett rides in Mr Murdoch’s car and gets a review from T.S. Eliot, in these extracts from his 2012 diary.Read the full diary in the LRB: https://lrb.me/bennett2012pod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 18, 2012 • 13min
Andrew O'Hagan: ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
Andrew O’Hagan reads 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and considers the art of terrible writing about sex. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 14, 2012 • 1h 7min
Ahdaf Souief: Mina’s Banner and the Egyptian Revolution
In the 2012 Edward Said Lecture, Ahdaf Soueif tells the story of ‘Mina’s Banner’ and the Egyptian revolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 6, 2012 • 36min
Ralph Fiennes reads ‘The University Poem’ by Nabokov
Ralph Fiennes reads ‘The University Poem’, which Nabokov wrote in 1926, four years after he left Trinity College, Cambridge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 4, 2012 • 57min
John Lanchester: Marx at 193
John Lanchester delivers his lecture writes about Karl Marx at 193. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 22, 2012 • 1h 1min
Neal Ascherson: The History and Future of Europe
Neal Ascherson discusses the competing forces of integration and nationalism throughout the history of modern Europe, and the ways in which they’ve shaped individual and collective identities, and considers the implications of the end of Cold Way on the continent’s social democratic frameworks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 5, 2012 • 10min
Alan Bennett: From his 2011 diary
Alan Bennett considers the banana skin and is mistaken for ‘another Alan’ in his Diary for 2011. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 18, 2011 • 60min
The Wonderfulness of Us
Andrew O’Hagan chaired this discussion between Linda Colley, R.W. Johnson and Tom Devine about national histories and the ways they should, and should not, be taught. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 6, 2011 • 1h 9min
Jacqueline Rose: Freud, Jung and Sylvia Plath
Jacqueline Rose speaks about her first readings of Freud and Jung and her encounters with feminism, Sylvia Plath and Israel/Palestine, in this interview with Paul Myerscough recorded in 2011. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
