The TLS Podcast

Tristram Hunt revisits the monuments controversy. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/monumental-lies-robert-bevan-everyday-like-of-memorials-andrew-shanken-on-the-street-edwin-heathcote-book-review-tristram-hunt/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Historian Emily Baughan on two books chronicling the immense impact of the NHS and the welfare state on the lives of Britons; and a new film explores Patricia Highsmith’s hinterland.’The Welfare State generation: Women, agency and class in Britain since 1945’, by Eve Worth‘Poster, protests and prescriptions: Cultural histories of the National Health Service in Britain’, edited by Jennifer Crane and Jane Hand‘Loving Highsmith’, a film by Eva VitijaProduced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nicola Shulman on two anthologies that display the obituarist’s art.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/lives-less-ordinary-nigel-farndale-eccentric-lives-andrew-brown-book-review-nicola-shulman/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Boyd Tonkin visits Complicité’s audacious adaptation of Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead; and Barnaby Phillips on two Victorian explorers at daggers drawn'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’, staged by Complicité, based on the novel by Olga Tokarczuk‘River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile’ by Candice Millard Producer: Lucy Dichmont Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Searching for the Good LifeSkye Clery on how to cope with the fear of death and other anxieties https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/life-is-short-dean-rickles-life-is-hard-kieran-setiya-book-review-skye-cleary/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lamorna Ash joins us to talk about Shy, Max Porter’s tale of teenage angst; and Jonathan Taylor on an illuminating survey of the uses and abuses of storytelling.’Shy’ by Max Porter’Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative’ by Peter BrooksProducer :Lucy Dichmont Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mother Knows BestMichele Pridmore-Brown considers recent insights into parenthood from neuroscience, archaeology and social policyhttps://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/mother-brain-chelsea-conaboy-what-makes-a-person-mark-hanson-lucy-green-growing-up-human-brenna-hassett-book-review-michele-pridmore-brown/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The hosts discuss life's big questions and offer advice. They are excited about the upcoming Hey Festival. Learn about the art of concentration and relaxation while driving. The concept of the 10,000-hour rule is challenged. They review books addressing the challenges of meaningful living. The fear of death and desire for immortality are explored.

Irina Dumitrescu considers what psoriasis tells us about social outcasts.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/skin-sergio-del-molino-book-review-irina-dumitrescu/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Margarette Lincoln on the secret life of Daniel Defoe, government agent; and Claire Lowdon transports herself back to the teenage turmoil of Martin Amis’s debut novel, fifty years on. ‘The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe’ edited by Nicholas Seager‘The Rachel Papers’ by Martin AmisProduced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.