Podcast Episodes

Andrew O’Hagan: ‘Shy bairns get nae sweets’

Andrew O‘Hagan reads his review of Sea State by Tabitha Lasley, a portrait of the oil rig industry, those who work in it, and a journalist‘s intensel…

5 years, 2 months ago

On Ursula Le Guin

Colin Burrow talks to Thomas Jones about the work of Ursula Le Guin. They discuss the way she brought anthropology into speculative fiction, her expl…

5 years, 2 months ago

The Colour Line in the Americas

Hazel Carby talks to Adam Shatz about the increasing nationalisation of racial histories, and the way African-American studies in the United States h…

5 years, 3 months ago

Beethoven Mythologies

James Wood talks to Thomas Jones about Beethoven, drawing on his review of three recent books on the composer. They discuss some of the apparently im…

5 years, 3 months ago

John Lanchester: Twenty Types of Human

John Lanchester reads his review of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes.

Read the piece here: lrb.me/neanderthalspod…

5 years, 3 months ago

‘Tassel Rue’ and Other Stories

Diane Williams reads nine of her (very) short stories published in the LRB, the most recent, ‘Tassel Rue’, from our Christmas issue.

Find these storie…

5 years, 3 months ago

Diego! Diego!

Thomas Jones reads his homage to Maradona, with help from some 1980s commentators.

Read the piece here: https://lrb.me/maradonapod

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5 years, 4 months ago

New Vaccines

Rupert Beale talks to Thomas Jones about the new Sars-CoV-2 vaccines, how the mRNA technology works, why social distancing still matters, and why he’…

5 years, 4 months ago

On Denise Riley

Ange Mlinko talks to Joanne O’Leary about the work of Denise Riley, following the publication last year of Riley’s Selected Poems: 1976-2016 and her …

5 years, 4 months ago

Haiti’s Revolution

Pooja Bhatia talks to Thomas Jones about the Haitian revolution of 1791, the world-historical debut of the movement for Black liberation. They discus…

5 years, 4 months ago