Podcast Episodes

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, 11 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, 4 months 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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22 years, 1 month 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 …

22 years, 1 month 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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22 years, 2 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…

22 years, 3 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, 5 months ago

Terry Castle: The Literature of Lesbianism

Terry Castle, editor of The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Aristo to Stonewall, explored the emergence of and transformation o…

22 years, 6 months ago

The Alhambra vs the Parthenon

In one of the first events held at the London Review Bookshop, Mary Beard and Robert Irwin squared up to each other to debate the relative greatness …

22 years, 7 months ago