The LRB Podcast
The London Review of Books
The LRB Podcast brings you weekly conversations from Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas, hosted by Thomas Jones and Malin Hay, and featuring our fortnightly 'On Politics' podcast hosted by James Butler.
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From the LRB
Subscribe to the LRB: https://lrb.me/subslrbpod
Close Readings podcast: https://lrb.me/crlrbpod
LRB Audiobooks: https://lrb.me/audiobookslrbpod
Bags, binders and more at the LRB Store: https://lrb.me/storelrbpod
Get in touch: podcasts@lrb.co.uk
Episodes
Mentioned books
Mar 20, 2014 • 1h 33min
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.Read more Mary Beard in the LRB: lrb.me/beardpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 6, 2014 • 1h 5min
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. O’Hagan speaks about those six months for the first time.Read more Andrew O'Hagan in the LRB: lrb.me/ohaganpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 20, 2014 • 1h 3min
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. Homelessness, in a word.Read more James Wood in the LRB: lrb.me/jameswoodpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 9, 2014 • 13min
Alan Bennett: What I did in 2013
Alan Bennett reluctantly pays some overdue bills.Read more Alan Bennett in the LRB: lrb.me/bennettpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 19, 2013 • 12min
Penelope Fitzgerald
Jenny Turner on Penelope Fitzgerald Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 21, 2013 • 1h 5min
A Death in Jenin
Adam Shatz on the life and death of Juliano Mer-Khamis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 7, 2013 • 10min
Mailer’s Last Punch
Andrew O’Hagan remembers Norman Mailer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 25, 2013 • 31min
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 migration. With grateful acknowledgments to the Alan Missen Foundation and Liberty Victoria. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 31, 2013 • 57min
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 identity, Rose discusses her work with Justin Clemens, co-editor (wtih Ben Naparstek) of the Jacqueline Rose Reader.Read Jacqueline Rose in the LRB: https://lrb.me/jrosepodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 30, 2013 • 1h 3min
Colm Tóibín: In Conversation
Author, essayist and poet Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland’s greatest living writers. He discusses his life and work, including his recent book The Testament of Mary, in which he re-imagines the life of Christ through the eyes of the holiest of saints. With Michael McGirr. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
