The TLS Podcast
The TLS
A weekly podcast on books and culture brought to you by the writers and editors of the Times Literary Supplement.To read more, welcome to the TLS. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Jun 22, 2016 • 33min
Fiction and the refugee crisis
Books, culture and more from the TLS podcast – this week featuring: responses to the refugee crisis, political and literary; the new Tate in London; Turkey's secular spaces; and a poem by Stephen Knight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 6, 2016 • 1h 2min
Svetlana Alexievich and the Russian-Soviet soul
Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, gives the Elliott Lecture at St Antony's College Oxford, taking as her subject "The history of the Russian-Soviet soul". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 1, 2016 • 25min
Tessa Hadley and Sarah Hall in conversation
Michael Caines talks to two authors who have been shortlisted for the 2016 South Bank Sky Arts Awards.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 27, 2016 • 1h 3min
Utopia – Then and Now (live from Kings Place)
Matthew Beaumont, Michael Caines, Chloe Houston and Nicole Pohl discuss Thomas More's Utopia, first published 500 years ago in 1516, and utopianism in its many and varied forms.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 17, 2016 • 15min
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Alan Jenkins introduces and reads a selection of the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 16, 2016 • 13min
Casanova's escape
Adrian Tahourdin and Mika Ross-Southall dip their toes in Casanova's celebrated memoirs.Find out more: www.the-tis.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 13, 2016 • 15min
Thomas De Quincey
Catharine Morris and Michael Caines take a look at the English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.Find out more at the-tis.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 28, 2016 • 16min
Robert Browning's Poetic Characters
Sam Graydon looks at the poet Robert Browning, exploring the major role he played in the development of the dramatic monologue, with a selection of readings from his works. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 22, 2016 • 53min
Shakespeare and Cervantes, 400 years on
To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare and Cervantes, Mika Ross-Southall introduces a talk on these two giants of world literature. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 20, 2016 • 14min
Utopia at 500
Michael Caines and Lucy Dallas take a tour of Thomas More's imaginary commonwealth, where private property has been abolished and reason rules all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
