The LRB Podcast
The LRB Podcast brings you weekly conversations from Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas. Hosted by Thomas Jones, it also features regular contributions from US Editor Adam Shatz and the ongoing ‘Close Readings’ series, which explores the lives and works of writers through the pieces about them in the LRB archive.
Episodes
Niamh Gallagher talks to Thomas Jones about the history of the Irish border, from its origins in the 1920s to today, the way it has shaped Irish politics in both the south and north, and why the Troubles can’t be repeated.
Find Niamh Gallagher's piece in the LRB and more here: https://lrb.me/irishborderpod
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Tariq Ali talks to Thomas Jones about a newly reissued biography of the Prophet by Maxime Rodinson, and the historic prevalence of Arabic culture in the West, from Don Quixote to Trafalgar Square.
Find Tariq Ali's review and other related pieces in the LRB here: https://lrb.me/muhammadcervantespod
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The legendary cartoonist talks to Thomas Jones about his latest book, Street Cop, a collaboration with Robert Coover, and looks back on previous work including Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers, which was originally published in the LRB.
Find related pieces in the LRB here: https://lrb.me/spiegelmanpod
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Seamus Perry, Mark Ford and Joanne O'Leary discuss the life and work of Emily Dickinson — her dashes, death instinct and obliquity.
Find Joanne's piece and more on Emily Dickinson in the LRB here: https://lrb.me/emilydickinsonpod
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Alan Bennett reads selections from his diary from March 2020 to March 2021.
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Alan Bennett’s pandemic diary will be published as a signed, numbered London Review Bookshop limited edition at the end of June. Pre-order a copy at lrb.me/housearrest
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Adam Shatz talks to Tareq Baconi and Henriette Chacar about the crisis in Israel-Palestine, the significance of the ceasefire, the context of the war, the politics inside Israel and the Gaza Strip, and the response in Washington.
Read Tareq Baconi on the LRB blog: https://lrb.me/afterceasefirepod
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Claire Hall talks to Thomas Jones about Ancient Greek horoscopy, the Ptolemaic model, the mysteries of the Antikythera mechanism, and why astrology was the first data science.
Find Claire's LRB pieces and more here: https://lrb.me/perfectcirclespod
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Rosa Lyster talks to Thomas Jones about the global water crisis, from the severe droughts in her home city of Cape Town, to the sinking of Mexico City and the damming of the Nile, and the need for all countries to prepare for future shortages.
Find Rosa Lyster's pieces (and listen ad free to this podcast) on our website here: https://lrb.me/waterpod
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Peter Geoghegan talks to Thomas Jones about the Greensill lobbying scandal, the refurbishment of Boris Johnson’s flat, the unhealthy relationship between successive British governments and the private sector, and what it might all mean for the future of the Union.
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Jesse McCarthy talks to Adam Shatz about his studies of Black diasporic culture, from Juan de Pareja to Audre Lorde, and his critique of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s case for reparations.
Find related pieces in the LRB here: https://lrb.me/blindspotspod
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Irina Dumitrescu talks to Thomas Jones about female authorship in early medieval England, and how the power and freedom that (some) women had in the eighth century challenges the idea of linear social progress.
Find more by Irina Dumitrescu in the LRB here: https://lrb.me/dumitrescupod
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John Lanchester talks to Thomas Jones about his experience of being on a cargo ship blocked from entering the Suez Canal in 1967, his subsequent journey round the Cape of Good Hope, and the modern-day business of containers.
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Diane Williams talks to Thomas Jones about her short stories, and reads her latest two published in the LRB.
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Gill Partington and Thomas Jones explore Kenneth Goldsmith’s online avant-garde archive, UbuWeb, listen to some of the things you can find on it, and consider what might not be found there.
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Mouin Rabbani and Nathan Thrall talk to Adam Shatz about Israel’s vaccination programme, the system of apartheid that now effectively exists between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea, the legacy of Trump’s policies, and how the Biden administration may or may not exert its influence.
Read Mouin Rabbani in the LRB: https://lrb.me/rabbanipod
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In this extra episode, Jorie Graham reads her poem ‘To 2040’, published in the latest issue of the LRB.
You can listen to Jorie Graham reading twelve more of her poems from the LRB on our website here: https://lrb.me/graham
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Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of the Saint Lucian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott.
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Terry Castle talks to Thomas Jones about Patricia Highsmith.
Find Castle's piece on Highsmith, and pieces by Highsmith, in the LRB here: lrb.me/highsmithpod
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Catherine Moore, a consultant clinical virologist at Public Health Wales, and Rupert Beale, a clinician scientist group leader at the Francis Crick Institute, talk to Thomas Jones about the vaccine rollout for Sars-CoV-2, the new variant originally found in Brazil, and whether the virus might ever be eliminated.
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Mary-Kay Wilmers, who retired as editor of the LRB last month, talks to Andrew O’Hagan about her career, first at Faber and Faber, then the Listener, then for 42 years at the London Review of Books. She talks about working with T.S. Eliot, the importance of being teased, and how a joke by Alan Bennett changed her life.
The episode also contains extracts from Wilmers’s 1988 diary for the LRB, ‘Putting in the Commas’, and O’Hagan’s pi...
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