The TLS Podcast
A weekly podcast on books and culture brought to you by the writers and editors of the Times Literary Supplement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
Nessa Carey explores how recent scientific breakthroughs allow experimentation with the DNA of all living species.
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-genetic-age-matthew-cobb-book-review-nessa-carey/
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Richard Smyth remembers the equanimity and attentiveness of Ronald Blythe; and Mary Flannery on the enduring appeal of Alison, the Wife of Bath.
‘Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside’ by Ronald Blythe
‘The Wife of Bath: A Biography’ by Marion Turner
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Kirsty Gunn considers Katherine Mansfield’s place in the literary canon.
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This week, Gabriel Roberts explores the past, present and - we very much hope - the future of bioabundance in animal species; and novelist Gwendoline Riley takes us into the affecting and brutally funny world of Michael Bracewell’s return to fiction after 21 years.
Species loss and bioabundance, by Gabriel Roberts
‘Unfinished Business’ by Michael Bracewell
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Christy Edwall reflects on a meditations on Keats’s poems, and a new account of his last days.
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Olivia Laing secrets and lies in the life and work of Kathy Acker.
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/eat-your-mind-kathy-acker-jason-mcbride-book-review-olivia-laing/
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This week, Lucy Lethbridge explains what a curate's eye is, and how ideas of British cooking range from Aga fantasies to bacon butties; and J. S. Barnes takes us to the dark side of the festive season, via Dickens and M. R. James....
'The British Cookbook: Authentic home cooking recipes from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland' by Ben Mervis
'To Be Read At Dusk: Dickens, ghosts and the supernatural', Cha...
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This week, we hear how the music-hall star Josephine Baker became a secret agent; and we talk to Simon McBurney of Complicité theatre company, about their haunting audio production of Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising.
'The Flame of Resistance' by Damien Lewis
'The Dark Is Rising' by Susan Cooper, BBC World Service, December 20
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Alan Forrest on Napoleon’s enemies at home and abroad.
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This week, Breeze Barrington takes us through a history of art with a difference - there are no men; and Larry Wolff talks us through the diva-rich operatic event of the season, the world premiere of The Hours at the Met in New York.
'The Story of Art Without Men' by Katy Hessel
'The Hours' by Kevin Puts
Metropolitan Opera, New York, until December 15. Live transmission in various cinemas, December 10
Produced by Charlo...
Anna Reid on the improbable rise of Volodymyr Zelensky
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/volodymyr-zelensky-biographies-book-review-anna-reid/
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This week, Mary Beard talks us through coins and emperors, real and fake, and the hidden networks beneath the Roman Empire; and Norma Clarke discusses the life and work of Rosa Bonheur, a celebrated female artist who kept her radical private life to herself.
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Michele Pridmore-Brown on the troubled dreams of the gods of the digital universe
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This week, Baillie Gifford Prizewinner Katherine Rundell describes how John Donne’s life force captivated her; and celebrated actor and playwright Wallace Shawn surveys a lifetime of writing essays.
Produced by Charlotte Pardy.
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George Berridge on Cormac McCarthy’s long-awaited diptych of conspiracy and nuclear anxiety
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This week, we discuss Emmanuel Carrère’s incisive account of France’s judicial response to the Bataclan attacks; and a host of TLS contributors on their favourite books of 2022.
‘V13: Chronique judiciare’ by Emmanuel Carrère
Books of the Year 2022
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Robert Potts considers the inconstancies of John le Carré.
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private-spy-letters-john-le-carre-secret-heart-suleika-dawson-book-review-robert-potts/
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This week, Alex Clark and Lucy Dallas explore the rise to prominence of Volodymyr Zelensky, the satirical stand-up turned president and war leader; and blow the cobwebs off the world’s rarest medieval manuscripts.
'The Zelensky Effect' by Olga Onuch and Henry E Hale
'Zelensky: Ukraine’s president and his country' by Steven Derix with Marina Shelkunova, translated by Brent Annable
'The Fight of Our Lives: My time wi...
Colin Thubron on an anthology of human beings straining at the limits.
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/endurance-levison-wood-book-review-colin-thubron/
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