Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPatrick Cockburn & Duncan Campbell on Claud Cockburn
Campaigning journalist Claud Cockburn – defiantly anti-establishment and proudly Communist – had as his watchword ‘believe nothing until it is offici…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Pankaj Mishra & Gareth Evans: The World After Gaza
Building on his seminal lecture ‘The Shoah After Gaza’ (LRB 21 March 2024) and his earlier books From the Ruins of Empire and The Age of Anger, novel…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
David Russell & Adam Phillips: On Marion Milner & Creativity
Marion Milner, across her long career as psychoanalyst, essayist and artist, thought deeply about creativity in all its forms, exploring fields as di…
11 months ago
Rebecca Solnit & Carole Cadwalladr: No Straight Road Takes You There
Rebecca Solnit’s latest essay collection explores subjects as diverse as the climate crisis, toxic masculinity and the rise of the far right with her…
11 months, 1 week ago
Margaret Atwood and Sarah Howe: Paper Boat
Before she became a well-known novelist, Margaret Atwood was an award-winning poet. She has been publishing poetry for more than 60 years, from the s…
11 months, 1 week ago
Solvej Balle & Chris Power: On the Calculation of Volume
‘Every morning, she wakes up to the 18th of November. She no longer expects to wake up to the 19th of November, and she no longer remembers the 17th …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Ali Smith & Sarah Wood: Gliff
Gliff, the latest novel from Ali Smith, forms the first part of a duology; its title, the Scots word for a glimpse or shock, will be echoed but not r…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Josh Cohen & Will Davies: All the Rage
Josh Cohen’s new book, All the Rage (Granta), explores anger, in all its permutations - social media arguments, political divides, road rage, passive…
1 year ago
Sarah Clegg & Ronald Hutton: The Dead of Winter
In The Dead of Winter, Sarah Clegg – author of the HWA Crown Award-shortlisted Woman’s Lore - looks behind the tinsel and the turkey to explore the d…
1 year ago
Eileen Myles & Amelia Abraham: a “Working Life”
Eileen Myles reads from their first collection of poetry since 2018’s Evolution. The poems in a “Working Life” evoke the joy and unease in the quotid…
1 year ago