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
This week, Isaac Nowell takes us out in all weathers, Sean O'Brien reads a new poem, and Norma Clarke on a fascinating story of exile and doomed love.
'In All Weathers: A Journey Through Rain, Fog, Wind, Ice and
Everything in Between', by Matt Gaw
'Fingerpost', by Sean O'Brien
'In Pursuit of Love: The Search for Victor Hugo's Daughter', by Mark Bostridge
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
This week, Anna Katharina Schaffner on a top-to-tail exploration of deportment; and Toby Lichtig in conversation with novelist Hari Kunzru at the Hay Festival.
'Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America', by Beth Linker
'Blue Ruin', by Hari Kunzru
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week, Lily Herd on a child's-eye view of rockstar royalty; and Toby Lichtig talks to novelist Chigozie Obioma at the Hay Festival.
'My Family and Other Rock Stars', by Tiffany Murray
'The Road to the Country', by Chigozie Obioma
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week, Heather O'Donoghue puzzles over the locked rooms and red herrings of the crime genre; and Josh Raymond on an animated attempt to understand teenage turmoil.
'The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators', by Martin Edwards
'Inside Out 2'
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week, we accompany Stephen Sawyer on a speeded-up saunter through the arrondissements; and Toby Lichtig in conversation with Rory Stewart at the Hay Festival.
'Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century', by Simon Kuper
'The Zone: An Alternative History of Paris', by Justinien Tribillon
'Politics on the Edge', by Rory Stewart
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
This week, TLS editors and writers guide you through a summer of reading; and Sarah Watling explores the extraordinary story of an artistic double act.
'Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece: An Untold Story', Charleston, Lewes, Sussex
'The Secret Art of Dorothy Hepworth, aka Patricia Preece', by Denys J. Wilcox
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week, Ben Hutchinson on the making of Franz Kafka, a century after the writer's death; and an interview with Roz Dineen about her vision of climate catastrophe and societal collapse.
'Kafka: Making of an icon', Weston Library, Bodleian, Oxford, until October 27
Accompanying book edited by Ritchie Robertson
'Briefly Very Beautiful', by Roz Dineen
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
Join us for at the Hay Festival for a conversation encompassing portals to other worlds, rock bands, improbable giraffes and the travails of the M4.
'Impossible Creatures', by Katherine Rundell
'One Ukrainian Summer: A Memoir About Falling in Love and Coming of Age in the Former USSR', by Viv Groskop
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week, we hear from two international prize-winning authors, Jenny Erpenbeck and Mircea Cărtărescu.
'Kairos' by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann
'Solenoid' by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week, writers including Andrew O'Hagan, Rose Tremain, Ayobami Adebayo and Marian Keyes select their most memorable sporting moments; and we drop in on the European Writers' Festival at the British Library.
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week, we look at the busy afterlives of two canonical characters: Nathalie Olah on Tom Ripley and Emelyne Godfrey on Sherlock Holmes.
'Ripley', on Netflix
'The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes: The inspiration behind the world’s greatest detective', by Andrew Lycett
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week, Susan Owens explores the surreal and vivid life of the artist Eileen Agar; and Rosie Goldsmith, curator of the European Writers' Festival, joins us to explain what's on the bill.
'A Look at My Life', by Eileen Agar
The European Writers' Festival, the British Library, London, 18-19 May 2024
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week, Oxford Professor of Poetry AE Stallings explores the elliptical brilliance of Anne Carson; and an interview with writer, filmmaker and artist Miranda July about her forthcoming novel.
'Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist', by Elizabeth Sarah Coles
'Wrong Norma', by Anne Carson
'All Fours', by Miranda July
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week, Kathryn Hughes introduces her new book on the cat craze that swept Edwardian England; and she also tells us about an exhibition of the work of Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman. Plus a review of Sunjeev Sahota's The Spoiled Heart.
'Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World', by Kathryn Hughes
'Portraits to Dream In', at the National Portrait Gallery, London, until 16 June, 2024
'The Spoil...
As the TLS celebrates all things Shakespeare, Emma Smith goes to see Ian McKellen's larger-than-life Falstaff; plus Rana Mitter on the immense impact and lasting legacy of the Tokyo Trial.
'Player Kings: Henry IV Parts 1 and 2', by William Shakespeare, adapted by Robert Icke, Noël Coward Theatre, London, until June 22, then touring 'Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia' by Gary J. Bass.
Prod...
This week, George Berridge is at the theatre to see Brian Cox in a classic role; and Toby Lichtig on a literary scandal with tragic consequences.
'Long Day's Journey into Night', by Eugene O'Neill, Wyndham's Theatre,
London, until June 8
'Bound to Violence', by Yambo Ouologuem, translated by Ralph Manheim
'The Most Secret Memory of Men', by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated
by Lara Vergnaud
'The Extinction of Irena Rey, by Jennifer Cr...
This week, environmentalist Bill McKibben joins us to talk about the latest in the fight to avert climate catastrophe; and a conversation with the brilliant novelist Hisham Matar about his new novel.
'The Exhausted Earth: Politics in a Burning World', by Ajay Singh Chaudhary
'My Friends', by Hisham Matar
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week, Suzi Feay sizes up the public intellectuals, deadbeat aristocrats, hedonistic oligarchs and hardened street soldiers of Andrew O'Hagan's panoramic new novel; and Michael Caines on the prolific and endlessly imaginative world of Ray Bradbury.
'Caledonian Road', by Andrew O'Hagan
'Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury', edited by Jonathan R. Eller
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
This week, Andrew Holter takes us into the extraordinary world of Helen Keller, in her own words; and Peter Maber hails a magnificent retrospective of Yoko Ono's radical art and music.
'Autobiographies and Other Writings', by Helen Keller
'Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind', Tate Modern, London, until 1 September 2024
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week, Miranda France contemplates the final novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; and Nicola Shulman on what women write in their diaries.
'Until August', by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Anne McLean
'Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries', by Sarah Gristwood
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