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Africa’s Cold War
Kevin Okoth and Jeremy Harding join Tom to discuss two recent books reassessing decolonisation. Textbook histories used to describe African independe…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Lives of Stonehenge: John Aubrey and William Stukeley
In the second episode of her short series looking at why Stonehenge has occupied such an important place in the story of Britain, Rosemary Hill talks…
2 years, 10 months ago
Why did Erdoğan win?
Following the Turkish president’s success in the run-off election on Sunday, Izzy Finkel and Tom Stevenson join Tom to discuss whether Erdoğan’s vict…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Lives of Stonehenge: Inigo Jones and John Wood
Rosemary Hill begins a new four-part series looking at what people have thought about Stonehenge over the past few hundred years, and why it’s come t…
2 years, 10 months ago
How radical is Scotland?
Rory Scothorne joins Tom to discuss the evolution of Scottish politics over the past century or so, and how best to understand a country that’s shift…
2 years, 10 months ago
What Spotify Wants
Spotify, a company worth $23 billion, has come out on top of the streaming wars, and yet it’s never made a profit. Daniel Cohen joins Malin to discus…
2 years, 11 months ago
Modi's Big Con
Accused of ‘the largest con in corporate history’, Indian magnate Gautam Adani has lost half his net worth and the indulgence of financial journalist…
2 years, 11 months ago
Thomas Hardy's Medieval Mind
Two worlds collide in this Close Readings fusion episode in which Mary Wellesley talks to Mark Ford about the medieval in Thomas Hardy and the wider …
2 years, 11 months ago
Introducing Past Present Future
Past Present Future is a new weekly podcast with David Runciman, host of Talking Politics, exploring the history of ideas from politics to philosophy…
2 years, 11 months ago
Sisters Come Second
In his introduction to our twelfth collection of LRB archive pieces, Sisters Come Second, Colm Tóibín writes that most siblings dream of being only c…
2 years, 11 months ago