The TLS Podcast

Before we turn the page on July, here's a look back at some of the conversations from this month's episodes on The TLS Podcast.

In this month's TLS Highlights, Hannah Lowe reads a new poem with a botanical theme; Claire Harman explores the self-possession and vigour of the youngest Brontë sibling; Scarlett Baron considers an attempt to cut James Joyce down to size; Carrie Cracknell discusses the delights and challenges of direct...

This week, Carrie Cracknell joins us to talk about the delights and challenges of directing Tom Stoppard's Arcadia; and Hirsh Sawhney on the empathetic brilliance of Sigrid Nunez.

'Arcadia', by Tom Stoppard, Duke of York's Theatre, London, until September 12 2026

'It Will Come Back to You', by Sigrid Nunez

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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This week, Scarlett Baron puzzles over an attempt to cut Joyce down to size; and Ian Sansom on the sobering realities of balancing the books if you want to be an artist.

'A Shorter Ulysses', by James Joyce and Anthony Burgess

'Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in funding a creative life', by Mason Currey

'How to Enter the Art World: After a late start, a first career, illness, raising children, a crisis of confidence/leav...

May has flown by — here's a listen back at some of the conversations we've had this month on The TLS Podcast.

We hear from Merlin Holland on the afterlife of his grandfather Oscar Wilde, David Horspool on the luscious world of the lido, Samantha Ellis on Charlotte Brontë's relationship with material reality, and Dinah Birch finds solace in letters and diaries from the past.

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This week, Dinah Birch finds solace in letters and diaries from the past, whether they be joyous, heartbreaking or down-to-earth; John Talbot reads us his poem of a very specific corner of London.

 A Literary Letter for Every Day of the Year, edited by Liz Ison  

The Writer’s Room: The hidden worlds that shape the books we love by Katie da Cunha Lewin  

Diaries of Note: 366 lives, one day at a time, ...

This week, David Streitfeld takes us to Earthsea and the wonderful imagination of Ursula K. Le Guin; and Samantha Ellis on Charlotte Brontë's relationship with material reality.

'The Word for World: The maps of Ursula K. Le Guin', edited by So Mayer and Sarah Shin

'Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand', by Ursula K. Le Guin

'Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats'

'So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018'

'A Larger Reality', edited by Conner Bo...

This week, Toby Lichtig on a constellation of new fiction; and Merlin Holland on the afterlife of his grandfather, Oscar Wilde.

'The Palm House', by Gwendoline Riley

'Devotions: Eight Stories', by Lucy Caldwell

'The Tribe', by Michael Arditti

'Lázár', by Nelio Biedermann, translated by Jamie Bulloch

'You Are the Führer's Unrequited Love', by Jean-Noël Orengo, translated by David Watson

'After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal', by Merli...

April is behind us - here's a look back at some of the conversations we've had this month on The TLS Podcast.

We hear from Fiona Stafford on encounters with remarkable trees, Emily Herring on why we should all slow down a little, Emma Smith on how Shakespeare scholarship wrestles with the gaps in what we know, and Sara Wheeler on the monumental task of becoming Jan Morris’s biographer.

Produced by Charlotte Pardy