Podcast Episodes

The Guatemalan Coup

Rachel Nolan talks to Tom about the overthrow of President Árbenz in Guatemala in 1954, its importance as a model for CIA-backed regime change across…

4 years, 4 months ago

A History of Revolution

Enzo Traverso talks to Adam Shatz about his new book on the history of revolutionary passions, images and ideas, from Haiti’s emancipatory slave rebe…

4 years, 4 months ago

The Last Asylums

Clair Wills talks to Tom about Netherne psychiatric hospital, where her mother and grandparents worked, and which became a national centre for art th…

4 years, 4 months ago

Elizabethan True Crime

Tom talks to Charles Nicholl about the craze in the 1590s for plays representing real-life murder on the London stage, from the first known example, …

4 years, 5 months ago

On John Craxton

Rosemary Hill talks to Tom about the painter John Craxton: why he wasn’t a romantic, why he wasn’t interested in being famous, and his relationship w…

4 years, 5 months ago

On Christopher Ricks

Tom talks to Colin Burrow about a new book by Christopher Ricks, regarded by some as the greatest living literary critic. They also look back at his …

4 years, 6 months ago

The Peter Thiel Paradox

David Runciman talks to Thomas Jones about Silicon Valley’s best known investor-provocateur, his prescience, his mistakes, and why, despite his ultra…

4 years, 6 months ago

'Swish! Swish! Swish!' by Patrick Leigh Fermor, read by Dominic West

Dominic West reads Patrick Leigh Fermor's piece about the olive harvest on the Mani peninsula, written in the 1950s but first published in 2021 in th…

4 years, 7 months ago

Kokumi

Daniel Soar talks to Thomas Jones about the sixth taste, variously translated as ‘mouthfulness’, ‘thickness’ and ‘lingeringness’, apparently discover…

4 years, 7 months ago

Lydia Davis: One French City

Lydia Davis reads her essay on Arles, recorded for the Trilling Lecture at Columbia University in 2019.

Read the piece here: https://lrb.me/lydiadavis…

4 years, 7 months ago