The TLS Podcast

John Donne was the greatest English dramatic poet who never wrote a play. Here, Alan Jenkins reads a selection of his works. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vertigo special: Toby Lichtig of The TLS introduces David Collard who compares Alfred Hitchcock's film interpretation to the original novel.The film was recently voted 'the best of all time' by 846 critics, programmers, academics and distributors. Find out more: www.the-tls.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael Caines looks back to Douglas Oliver's long poem The Infant and the Pearl, first published in 1985 – a poetic vision of the contemporary political scene, among other things, cast in the mould of a medieval dream poem.Find out more: www.the-tls.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We discuss a poem by J.H. Prynne called To Pollen, from 2006, which conducts its own examination of the uses and misuses of images and stories of suffering.Read by Robert Potts.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“August for the people and their favourite islands”, said W.H. Auden in 1935, with the Isle of Wight in mind. Now people’s favourite islands are more likely to be Majorca or Mykonos, but the lure of the seaside remains. Alan Jenkins reads a selection of holiday poems from the past eighty years.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Horspool and Lucy Dallas take an in-depth look at the world of cycling literature. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Michael Caines and Mika Ross-Southall look at how tennis has inspired writers over the centuries.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Mika Ross-Southall and Michael Caines consider Shakespeare's collaborator John Fletcher – a major English dramatist whose work, paradoxically, is largely neglected today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Michael Caines, Natalie Ferris and Mika Ross-Southall explore the experimental work of Christine Brooke-Rose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Adrian Tahourdin goes to Waterloo.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.