Podcast Episodes

Mourid Barghouti

Although best known in the English-speaking world for his autobiography I Saw Ramallah, Mourid Barghouti has published 14 volumes of poetry. After tr…

19 years, 6 months ago

Andrew O'Hagan - Be Near Me

Shortly after its publication, Andrew O'Hagan reads from Be Near Me, his powerful third novel on cultural clash between an English priest and Scottis…

19 years, 7 months ago

Iain Sinclair - Edge of the Orison

Iain Sinclair spirals outwards from the centre of London as he reads from and discusses Edge of the Orison, examining family history and the disinteg…

20 years, 6 months ago

David Hare - Obedience, Struggle and Revolt

David Hare free-associates on politics, theatre and writing, inspired by his collection Obedience, Struggle and Revolt.

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20 years, 7 months ago

Betsy Blair - The Memory of All That

The actress and political activist Betsy Blair discusses Hollywood in the 1950s, her marriages to Gene Kelly and Karel Reisz, her tangles with the Bl…

21 years ago

Michael McClure - Beast Language

One of the original Beats, Michael McClure was back in London for the first time in thirty years and gave an exclusive reading at the Bookshop.

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21 years, 9 months ago

Robert Chandler - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Robert Chandler reads from his newly-published translation of Nikolay Leskov's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk on which the libretto of Shostakovich's opera …

21 years, 9 months ago

Don Paterson

Don Paterson read from his 2004 collection Landing Light (Faber), which won both the Whitbread Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot prize.

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21 years, 10 months ago

Alan Bennett - The History Boys

On the day following press night at the National Theatre, Alan Bennett spoke at the London Review Bookshop about The History Boys. The play asks ques…

21 years, 11 months ago

New York Poets - An Anthology

To celebrate the publication of Carcanet's new anthology of the New York School poets, editor Mark Ford, poets Lee Harwood and Sarah Maguire, and tra…

22 years, 1 month ago