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Mary Renault's Worldbuilding
Miranda Carter joins Tom to talk about the life and historical fiction of Mary Renault, whose popular and ingenious retellings of stories from Ancien…
3 years ago
Sorry State
In the run up to the local elections, and following his recent piece on the care crisis, James Butler joins Tom to discuss some of the other problems…
3 years ago
Pirates of Madagascar
Francis Gooding joins Tom to discuss Pirate Enlightenment, David Graeber’s posthumously published study of 17th- and 18th-century piracy. Golden Age …
3 years ago
BookTok
With the future of TikTok increasingly uncertain in the US and other countries, Malin Hay talks to Tom about the app’s powerful reading-focused corne…
3 years ago
How to Plot an Abortion
Expanding on her recent Winter Lecture, Clair Wills talks to Tom about the stories people tell about abortions – stories conditioned by tradition, co…
3 years, 1 month ago
Climate, Politics and Procreation: Jade Sasser
In the final episode of this series on climate chaos and reproductive justice, Meehan Crist speaks to the feminist scholar Jade Sasser. Jade discusse…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Reaction Economy
William Davies talks to Tom about his recent LRB Winter Lecture, looking at why reactions – facial expressions, gestures or emojis – have become the …
3 years, 1 month ago
Climate, Politics and Procreation: Alison Bashford
In the third episode of a four-part series exploring the intersection of climate chaos and reproductive justice, Meehan Crist speaks to historian Ali…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Weirdness of Paul Newman
The screen legend and salad dressing philanthropist Paul Newman recorded hundreds of personal interviews before destroying the tapes. The surviving t…
3 years, 2 months ago
Climate, Politics and Procreation: Banu Subramaniam
In the second episode of a four-part series on climate chaos and reproductive justice, Meehan Crist speaks to Banu Subramaniam, the evolutionary biol…
3 years, 2 months ago