Podcast Episodes

Mary Beard: The Public Voice of Women

Mary Beard reflects on the way women are heard – and have been heard – in public, from Homer’s Odyssey through Margaret Thatcher to internet trolls.

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12 years ago

Andrew O'Hagan: Julian Assange

Andrew O’Hagan spent six months with Julian Assange helping him write his autobiography, though in the event Assange didn’t want the book published. …

12 years, 1 month ago

James Wood: On Not Going Home

James Wood explores the estrangement of voluntary emigration: the puzzling sense of losing the country you leave and failing to find another. Homeles…

12 years, 1 month ago

Alan Bennett: What I did in 2013

Alan Bennett reluctantly pays some overdue bills.

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12 years, 3 months ago

Penelope Fitzgerald

Jenny Turner on Penelope Fitzgerald

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12 years, 3 months ago

A Death in Jenin

Adam Shatz on the life and death of Juliano Mer-Khamis.

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12 years, 4 months ago

Mailer’s Last Punch

Andrew O’Hagan remembers Norman Mailer.

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12 years, 5 months ago

Short Cuts

Jacqueline Rose on what links Frank Kermode and Nigel Farage.

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12 years, 5 months ago

Australia’s Boat-People

In August, as Australian politicians hung tough on asylum seekers, the Melbourne Writers Festival asked Jeremy Harding how far governments can patrol…

12 years, 6 months ago

In Conversation: Jacqueline Rose on Sylvia Plath, feminism, Proust, psychoanalysis, Zionism and more

Recognised for her writing on subjects including Sylvia Plath, feminism, Proust, psychoanalysis, Zionism, the Middle East conflict and Jewish identit…

12 years, 7 months ago