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Aug 9, 2018
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A weekly podcast on books and culture brought to you by the writers and editors of the Times Literary Supplement.
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| Episode | Date |
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That Old Chestnut
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Food fights
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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In Conversation with Michael Morpurgo
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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From trains to treaties
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Revolutionary Roads
|
Mar 12, 2026 |
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Full Interview with Francis Spufford
|
Mar 08, 2026 |
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Escape Artists
|
Mar 05, 2026 |
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February Highlights
|
Mar 01, 2026 |
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Darkness Visible
|
Feb 26, 2026 |
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A Cortège of Snails
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Great Balls of Fire
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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The Game's Afoot
|
Feb 06, 2026 |
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January Highlights: Conversations That Started 2026
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Now You See Me
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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This Be The Verse
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Mind Games
|
Jan 15, 2026 |
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Exclusive: Doubting Thomas
|
Jan 07, 2026 |
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Merry Christmas!
|
Dec 25, 2025 |
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Altogether Elsewhere
|
Dec 18, 2025 |
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Beyond the bonnet
|
Dec 11, 2025 |
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In Transit
|
Dec 04, 2025 |
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Foundation course
|
Nov 27, 2025 |
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Books of the Year
|
Nov 20, 2025 |
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Devices and Desires
|
Nov 13, 2025 |
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Motherload
|
Nov 06, 2025 |
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Scare Stories
|
Oct 30, 2025 |
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Escape Artists
|
Oct 23, 2025 |
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Dramatic licence
|
Oct 16, 2025 |
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What Ho!
|
Oct 09, 2025 |
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Not All Heroes Wear Capes
|
Oct 02, 2025 |
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All Rise
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Epic moves
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Such stuff as dreams are made on
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Code-breakers
|
Sep 05, 2025 |
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Let's Get Lost
|
Aug 28, 2025 |
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In vino veritas
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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A Force of Nature
|
Aug 14, 2025 |
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Feather weight
|
Aug 07, 2025 |
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Blowing in the wind
|
Jul 31, 2025 |
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Hedging Your Bets
|
Jul 24, 2025 |
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Across the Pond
|
Jul 17, 2025 |
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Letters from America
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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HORSE TRADING
|
Jul 03, 2025 |
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DON'T STOP...
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Seasons in the Sun
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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It All Adds Up
|
Jun 12, 2025 |
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Making Hay
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Unearthed Treasures
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May 29, 2025 |
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Vagabond Hearts
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May 22, 2025 |
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Days to Remember
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May 15, 2025 |
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Big Cheese, Big Apple
|
May 08, 2025 |
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On our travels
|
May 01, 2025 |
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Renaissance Men
|
Apr 24, 2025 |
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Be not afraid of greatness!
|
Apr 17, 2025 |
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Psychopomp and circumstance
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Life is a Cabaret
|
Apr 03, 2025 |
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Into The Wild
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Breaking Ground
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Making Waves
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Once Upon a Time
|
Mar 06, 2025 |
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Hidden Realms
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Hubris and Nemesis
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Elegant Variations
|
Feb 13, 2025 |
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Close Encounters
|
Feb 06, 2025 |
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His Back Pages
|
Jan 30, 2025 |
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Tales of the City
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Picture This
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Keeping The Pot Boiling
|
Jan 09, 2025 |
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Happy New Year!
|
Jan 02, 2025 |
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Glad to Exist
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Revolutionary Roads
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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On the Shoulders of Giants
|
Dec 05, 2024 |
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Friends, Romans... Rhinoceroses?
|
Nov 28, 2024 |
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Coup de Foudre
|
Nov 21, 2024 |
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Watch This Space
|
Nov 15, 2024 |
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Good at Games
|
Nov 07, 2024 |
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Letter from the Capitol
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Double Vision
|
Oct 28, 2024 |
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Home Truths
|
Oct 24, 2024 |
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From Seoul to Stockholm
|
Oct 17, 2024 |
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Cherchez La Femme
|
Oct 10, 2024 |
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Taking flight
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Tuning In
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Autumn Leaves
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Typecast
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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HAPPY DAYS
|
Sep 05, 2024 |
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Magic of the Minds
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Making Change
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Fixtures and Funerals
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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The History Boys
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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The Mind Bind
|
Aug 01, 2024 |
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After the Deluge
|
Jul 25, 2024 |
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Sitting Pretty
|
Jul 18, 2024 |
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Testaments of Youth
|
Jul 11, 2024 |
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Private Eyes and Private Lives
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Marginal Gains
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Here Comes the Sun
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Metamorphosis and Myth
|
Jun 13, 2024 |
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The TLS on Tour
|
Jun 06, 2024 |
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Found in Translation
|
May 30, 2024 |
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Let the Games Begin!
|
May 23, 2024 |
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Regeneration Games
|
May 16, 2024 |
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How to Dress for Bouillabaisse
|
May 09, 2024 |
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Better to Travel Hopefully
|
May 02, 2024 |
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Super Furry Animals
|
Apr 25, 2024 |
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Power Plays
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Unjust Deserts
|
Apr 11, 2024 |
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Time Past and Time Future
|
Apr 04, 2024 |
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Illustrated Men
|
Mar 28, 2024 |
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O Pioneers!
|
Mar 21, 2024 |
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Between The Sheets
|
Mar 14, 2024 |
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A Worm’s-eye View
|
Mar 07, 2024 |
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Revivals
|
Feb 29, 2024 |
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Cometh the Hour
|
Feb 22, 2024 |
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Flights of Fantasy
|
Feb 15, 2024 |
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In Conversation with Richard Sennett
|
Feb 11, 2024 |
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All the World's a Stage
|
Feb 08, 2024 |
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Splendid Isolation
|
Feb 01, 2024 |
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Class Struggles
|
Jan 25, 2024 |
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Energy Creation
|
Jan 18, 2024 |
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Out Of Our Minds
|
Jan 11, 2024 |
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Turning Leaves: Dame Penelope Lively and Josephine Lively
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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A Cure for Twixmas
|
Dec 28, 2023 |
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Worlds of Pure Imagination
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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From Paris To The Prairies
|
Dec 14, 2023 |
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There May Be Trouble Ahead
|
Dec 07, 2023 |
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Silently And Very Fast
|
Nov 30, 2023 |
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Charm School
|
Nov 23, 2023 |
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Back Of The Net!
|
Nov 16, 2023 |
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Lost In Space
|
Nov 09, 2023 |
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The Handmaids' Tales
|
Nov 02, 2023 |
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History in the Making
|
Oct 26, 2023 |
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Finding Tongues In Trees
|
Oct 19, 2023 |
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Punching Above Their Weight
|
Oct 12, 2023 |
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Sing, O muses!
|
Oct 05, 2023 |
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Elegies And Energies
|
Sep 28, 2023 |
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Back To The Future
|
Sep 21, 2023 |
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Back to School!
|
Sep 14, 2023 |
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Power Play
|
Sep 07, 2023 |
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To the Scriptorium!
|
Aug 31, 2023 |
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Nevertheless, They Persisted
|
Aug 24, 2023 |
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The Pursuit Of The Interesting
|
Aug 17, 2023 |
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Femmes Fatales
|
Aug 10, 2023 |
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Natural Passions
|
Aug 03, 2023 |
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School's Out For Summer
|
Jul 27, 2023 |
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Running And Dancing Through Our Stories
|
Jul 20, 2023 |
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Riders On The Storm
|
Jul 13, 2023 |
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Take A Walk On The Wild Side
|
Jul 06, 2023 |
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The Writing on The Wall
|
Jun 29, 2023 |
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The Limits of Love
|
Jun 25, 2023 |
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Long Hot Summer
|
Jun 22, 2023 |
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Winning On The Home Front
|
Jun 18, 2023 |
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Sauce Bolognese
|
Jun 15, 2023 |
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Know Thyself
|
Jun 11, 2023 |
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Hay Festival Special
|
Jun 08, 2023 |
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Puffed Up with Wind
|
Jun 05, 2023 |
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Inheritance Taxes
|
Jun 01, 2023 |
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Their Little Pony
|
May 30, 2023 |
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O Tempora! O Mores!
|
May 25, 2023 |
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Life In The Slow Lane
|
May 18, 2023 |
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To The Barricades
|
May 14, 2023 |
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All The News That’s Fit To Print
|
May 11, 2023 |
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Every Little Helps
|
May 07, 2023 |
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To Thine Own Self Be True
|
May 04, 2023 |
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Everyone’s Business
|
Apr 30, 2023 |
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How To Respect A Chihuahua’s Privacy
|
Apr 27, 2023 |
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Look Back In Anger
|
Apr 23, 2023 |
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A Place of Greater Safety
|
Apr 20, 2023 |
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So Long, Farewell
|
Apr 16, 2023 |
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Connecting the Dots
|
Apr 13, 2023 |
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Searching for the Good Life
|
Apr 09, 2023 |
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Disrupting the Narrative
|
Apr 06, 2023 |
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Mother Knows Best
|
Apr 02, 2023 |
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Always Look On The Bright Side of Life
|
Mar 30, 2023 |
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Scratch The Surface
|
Mar 26, 2023 |
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Private Faces In Public Places
|
Mar 23, 2023 |
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In A Green Shade
|
Mar 16, 2023 |
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American Paranoia
|
Mar 12, 2023 |
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The Isle is Full of Noises
|
Mar 09, 2023 |
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Turning Leaves
|
Mar 07, 2023 |
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Give Them Back!
|
Mar 05, 2023 |
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Coming to Fruition
|
Mar 02, 2023 |
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Good Chaps
|
Feb 27, 2023 |
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A Treasure on Your Shelf, Waiting
|
Feb 23, 2023 |
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Into The Woods
|
Feb 19, 2023 |
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Dogs Days in the Writer’s Life
|
Feb 16, 2023 |
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A Town Called Sue
|
Feb 12, 2023 |
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State Secrets and Private Passions
|
Feb 09, 2023 |
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Big Tech Is Reading Your Mind
|
Feb 05, 2023 |
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All Those Old Familiar Places
|
Feb 02, 2023 |
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The Gene Genie
|
Jan 29, 2023 |
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Telling It Like It Is
|
Jan 26, 2023 |
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Stories That Simply Unfold
|
Jan 22, 2023 |
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Rattling The Handle On Life
|
Jan 19, 2023 |
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A Sea-Brooding Poet
|
Jan 16, 2023 |
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Radical Barbie
|
Jan 09, 2023 |
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Festive Shadows and Feasts of Panackelty
|
Dec 22, 2022 |
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Simon McBurney of Complicité - "We've always been interested in the idea of connection"
|
Dec 18, 2022 |
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The Power of Connections
|
Dec 15, 2022 |
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The Road To St Helena
|
Dec 11, 2022 |
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Female Perspectives Take Centre Stage
|
Dec 08, 2022 |
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His Biggest Role
|
Dec 04, 2022 |
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Roman Coins And Radical Rosa Bonheur
|
Dec 01, 2022 |
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Conquering Sociopaths
|
Nov 28, 2022 |
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“It Is An Astonishment To Be Alive”
|
Nov 24, 2022 |
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End Of The Road
|
Nov 20, 2022 |
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Bearing Witness To Terror
|
Nov 17, 2022 |
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Tinker, Tailor, Lover, Spy
|
Nov 13, 2022 |
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Men On A Mission
|
Nov 10, 2022 |
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One Step Beyond
|
Nov 06, 2022 |
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Who Knows Where The Time Goes
|
Nov 03, 2022 |
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Big Unfriendly Giant
|
Oct 30, 2022 |
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From Battleground to Billiard Table
|
Oct 27, 2022 |
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Acid Raine
|
Oct 23, 2022 |
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A Journey Into The Ambiguous Afterlife
|
Oct 20, 2022 |
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Beyond Flesh and Blood
|
Oct 16, 2022 |
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Measuring Our Lives, One Reindeer At A Time
|
Oct 13, 2022 |
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What's For Dinner?
|
Oct 09, 2022 |
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United We Stand
|
Oct 06, 2022 |
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If We Only Had Eyes To See
|
Oct 02, 2022 |
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Marching To Their Own Tune
|
Sep 29, 2022 |
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Vaccines On Stage, Elves On Screen
|
Sep 22, 2022 |
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Elizabeth II in History
|
Sep 18, 2022 |
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The Rise of Your Frenemy’s Sourdough
|
Sep 15, 2022 |
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The Hour Of Our Death
|
Sep 11, 2022 |
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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Our New Gilded Age
|
Sep 04, 2022 |
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Women In Cages, Everywhere
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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In Which Summer’s Lease Runs Out
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Earth Matters
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Visionaries Revisited
|
Aug 11, 2022 |
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Summer Breeze
|
Aug 04, 2022 |
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Revolutionary Roads
|
Jul 28, 2022 |
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Boys And Their Toys
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Paradise Lost and Particles Found
|
Jul 14, 2022 |
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Making Waves: An Oceanic Austen And A Modern Orwell
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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From Mountain Passes To Streets Paved With Gold
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Lazing On A Sunny Afternoon
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Kidneys, Plums and Free Love
|
Jun 16, 2022 |
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The TLS podcast at the Hay Festival
|
Jun 08, 2022 |
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The Ebb and Flow of Power
|
Jun 02, 2022 |
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Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité
|
May 26, 2022 |
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Mementoes and Mayhem
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May 19, 2022 |
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Free-thinking Dinners in the Age of Revolutions
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May 11, 2022 |
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The Shape Of Things To Come
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May 05, 2022 |
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The Birds and the Bees, and Books Made of Cheese
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Lives, Interrupted
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Life Lessons and Making Sporting History
|
Apr 14, 2022 |
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Early Days And Their Long Shadows
|
Apr 07, 2022 |
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Boundaries Real and Imagined
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Visions of Violence
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Rock Star, Freak, Agitator
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Say What You’re Going To Say
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Faint Praise
|
Mar 03, 2022 |
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Birds of a Feather
|
Feb 24, 2022 |
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A Story With Strings Attached
|
Feb 17, 2022 |
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Writers at the Gates of Dawn
|
Feb 10, 2022 |
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Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Clarity, Honesty, Fluff
|
Jan 27, 2022 |
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Carnival of Darkness
|
Jan 20, 2022 |
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Give Me Your Heart
|
Jan 13, 2022 |
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A Constant State of Foreignness
|
Jan 06, 2022 |
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Best of 2021
|
Dec 30, 2021 |
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Best of 2021
|
Dec 30, 2021 |
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BONUS: Sarah Hall and Sarah Moss – an interview
|
Dec 23, 2021 |
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This Is Magic
|
Dec 16, 2021 |
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On not letting it be
|
Dec 09, 2021 |
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George Orwell and his Roses and a History of Self-Improvement
|
Dec 02, 2021 |
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Books of the Year 2021
|
Nov 25, 2021 |
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The Mythic Town of Concord and the Magic of the Lighted Window
|
Nov 18, 2021 |
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The Booker-winner and the Beatle
|
Nov 11, 2021 |
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Wild Lives
|
Nov 04, 2021 |
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Doom, Faith and Sabotage
|
Oct 27, 2021 |
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Radical Turns
|
Oct 20, 2021 |
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The Autumn Livres
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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E.M. Forster's Happy Solution
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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When the Flawed Succeed
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Survival of the Wittiest
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Sad and Twisted Stories
|
Sep 23, 2021 |
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Greatest Hits
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Don't sweat it
|
Sep 16, 2021 |
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Indexes, Newsletters, Potatoes, Gold!
|
Sep 08, 2021 |
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TLS Summer Library: Part IV
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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TLS Summer Library: Part III
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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The Guidance of Brains
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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TLS Summer Library: Part II
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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TLS Summer Library: Part I
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Turning poetry into profit with Alighieri Jewellery's Rosh Mahtani
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Paternal Effects
|
Aug 08, 2021 |
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A Genius of Cancer and a Queen of Bohemia
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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The Miraculous Mundane
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Private Profits, Public Cost
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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The movie we want it to be
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Insiders, outsiders and insider-outsiders
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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No Ideas, But in Things
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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Proust's Way
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Strange Worlds of Their Own
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Robots Working, Humans Reading
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Mozart the Happy Harlequin and Lost British Labourism
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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A Bengali Polymath and an ‘Accidental Modernist’
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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‘But Where’s the Poetry?!’
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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D. H. Lawrence in Flames
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May 27, 2021 |
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Jane Austen and Abolition
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May 20, 2021 |
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Angela Thirkell’s Relentless Self-Belief
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May 12, 2021 |
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Pirandello’s Controlled Chaos
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May 05, 2021 |
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Violence Upon the Roads
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Underground and on the Run
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Getting Shakespeare’s Measure
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Philip Roth, For Better, For Worse, Forever?
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Dreams of America
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Myth-busting, awkwardness, pure Marvellousness
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Vivian Gornick’s Time
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Avoidance and absurdity
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Ishiguro’s AI and Grendel’s Mother
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Nostalgia, Outsiders and "Rubber Tramps"
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Weapons, Grouse and Red Herrings
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Tentatively Pressing
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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The Barbara Comyns revival
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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BONUS: David Baddiel - Jews Don't Count
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Borges - Encounters and "Encounters"
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Delicate Matters
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Epiphanies and Kidneys
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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This is Pakistan
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Jacques Tati’s Serious Gags
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Stalin, little and large
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Beethoven at 250
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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BONUS: 2020 Booker Prize Winner - Douglas Stuart
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Neither Victims nor Perpetrators
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Gagged with Ashes
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Books of the Year 2020
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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You Have Fixed Me
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Terrifyingly True (or Not)
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Classical music conductors: Overpaid, oversexed and over the hill?
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Out Caravaggio-ing Caravaggio
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Dancing on Air
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Milk as Metaphor
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Seduction and Uprisings
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Murder at the Opera
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Books! Books! Books!
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Sex and the City of Ladies
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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The TLS, rewind #4
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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The TLS, rewind #3
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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The TLS, rewind #2
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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The TLS, rewind #1
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Climate change, from 'doomism' to optimism
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Life as a Roman emperor
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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How the West was written
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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Romance versus realism
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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The Pet Shop Boys paradox
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Bernardine Evaristo wins again
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Holiday in the living room
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Don’t forget Edward Earl Johnson
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Finding art in lockdown
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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Slave driver, the table is turn
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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How to be alone
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May 27, 2020 |
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Townies and gownies
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May 20, 2020 |
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‘How does it smell?’
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May 13, 2020 |
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Grotesquely good
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May 06, 2020 |
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Easy as ABC?
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Godzilla, the plague, etc
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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‘It’s not him, it’s us’
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Introducing: Stories of our times
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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‘A very peculiar telegram’
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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The kangaroo curve
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Tweets, memes and the smell of masculine
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Tales of a century
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Passion projects
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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Absolutely worth the hype
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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The Mirror & the Light – an extract from Hilary Mantel's new novel
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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West Side Storyless
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Vanilla sex in Pompeii
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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Anne Enright – a reading from Actress
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Can't go on. Go on.
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Daniel Kehlmann, an interview
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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Bringing Tolstoy down
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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Carrier bag or stick?
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Byron's oddness
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Bonus episode: Five women, one radical address
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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Huge stars in a minor key
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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Seen and not heard?
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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Apples and oranges in space
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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The decade that was
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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Haunted by Miss Austen
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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The Iron Lady and the judo politician
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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Hallie Rubenhold – an interview
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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Books of the Year, 2019
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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Elizabeth Strout – an interview
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Two phat ladies
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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How to read
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Cold War machinations
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Morals and mysteries
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Magazine love
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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Bernardine Evaristo – winner of the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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David Greig – revisiting 'Solaris'
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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Prize controversies
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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Patronizing writers of colour
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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How to grow a human
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Scavenger of eternal truths
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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Unsettled by Sontag
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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The recipe for superstardom
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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Is it too late?
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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What do the kids say?
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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'We should all be interested in pigeons...'
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Aug 21, 2019 |
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The most expensive mystery of all
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Aug 14, 2019 |
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How to be modern: conspiracy theory, free will and the avant-garde
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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‘We don’t know what he has, we don’t know what he’s done with it’
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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Nature for sale
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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Unromancing the Romantics
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Loving Iris Murdoch
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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Who reads John Updike?
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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Talk to the hands
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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Summer Books 2019
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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Russian greats and fictional eats
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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Ethical economics
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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Celestial Bodies – winner of the 2019 Man Booker International prize for fiction
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May 29, 2019 |
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Weighty matters
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May 29, 2019 |
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Victoria at 200
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May 22, 2019 |
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Knowing laughter
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May 15, 2019 |
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Journey to the centre of the earth
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May 08, 2019 |
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To infinities – and beyond
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May 01, 2019 |
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The life-writing issue
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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As we like it
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Ian McEwan – an interview
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Youth injustice system
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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Whitechapel and Weimar
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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A deep history of Europe
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Forgotten, not gone
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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O, the Edward Gorey of it all
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Dave Eggers: The violations start with us
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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A nose is a nose is a nose…
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Unsilenced voices
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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Half glitzy, half dowdy
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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Zadie Smith, in conversation
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: the inaugural Gabriel García Márquez lecture
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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Narratives of sexual assault
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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How Macron went wrong
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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‘American Standard’, a new poem by Paul Muldoon
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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Everything points north
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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Reddit's new religions
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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Egos and experiments
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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Finer points of murder
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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Icons familiar and unfamiliar
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Jan 03, 2019 |
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Highlights from 2018 – a bonus episode
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Dec 27, 2018 |
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Mary Beard's 'Introduction to the Odyssey' – a bonus episode
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Dec 27, 2018 |
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Arts of the Year 2018
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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Ode to the orca
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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Who on earth was William Gilbert?
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Our problem with cows
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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The best books of 2018
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Nov 22, 2018 |
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Is it accurate to call Donald Trump a fascist?
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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WW1: Remembering / forgetting
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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Remembering Peterloo
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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BONUS: Must read – must buy?
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Oct 24, 2018 |
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1844, remember the date...
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Oct 24, 2018 |
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Ever-enigmatic Leonardo da Vinci
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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An Odyssey for everyone
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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Radical Cheltenham and a poem from Paul Muldoon
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Oct 03, 2018 |
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Diarmaid MacCulloch on Thomas Cromwell
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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Mexico's great disgrace
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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Henry James in LA
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Sep 19, 2018 |
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On booze and art
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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Philip Larkin, beyond the grave
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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Too smart for our own good
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Aug 22, 2018 |
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Same old gags
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Aug 15, 2018 |
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Turn on, tune in, drop out?
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Aug 08, 2018 |
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Mind and memory
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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Emily Brontë's wuthering wilds
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Jul 25, 2018 |
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Women, in and out of control
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Jul 18, 2018 |
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Summer Books 2018
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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Ode to Lee Child – a bonus episode
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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Notes on 50 years of the Man Booker Prize
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Jul 04, 2018 |
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An interview with Tim Winton – a bonus episode
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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The wildness of Muriel Spark
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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Russia's blood games
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Jun 20, 2018 |
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Changing your mind and opening the doors
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Jun 13, 2018 |
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Rules of law
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Jun 13, 2018 |
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Jesmyn Ward’s lyrical fiction - a bonus episode
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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Those are pearls . . . and Michael Jackson's performative drama
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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Philip Roth and the translatable
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May 30, 2018 |
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The making of me
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May 25, 2018 |
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Roman emperors and football managers
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May 16, 2018 |
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BONUS: Madeline Miller on Circe
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May 09, 2018 |
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Mothers and millennials
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May 09, 2018 |
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Carlo Rovelli's time – a special episode
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May 02, 2018 |
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Why does everyone hate Nixon?
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May 02, 2018 |
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The risky art of cartooning
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Apr 25, 2018 |
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Culture clash
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Apr 18, 2018 |
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Empathy: for better, for worse
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Apr 11, 2018 |
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The New Elizabethans
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Apr 04, 2018 |
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Hyper-liberalism and the 6,000th TLS
|
Mar 28, 2018 |
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Everyone's a winner – a bonus episode
|
Mar 28, 2018 |
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On the consciousness of cows
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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Ada Lovelace: tech prophet and trophy wife
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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Writers and their mothers
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Mar 08, 2018 |
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Jewishness: seriously funny
|
Mar 01, 2018 |
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Prickly, profound Isaac Newton
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Feb 22, 2018 |
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Fiona Mozley and Lisa McInerney – at Hay Festival, Cartagena
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Feb 21, 2018 |
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Can things only get better?
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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Mothers of #MeToo
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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Gregory Norminton, an interview
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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The 'real' Jane Eyre
|
Feb 01, 2018 |
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Having a nice day
|
Jan 25, 2018 |
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Language lolz
|
Jan 18, 2018 |
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Was Jesus a Buddhist? Well, no...
|
Jan 11, 2018 |
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The Problem We All Still Live With
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Jan 04, 2018 |
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Highlights from 2017
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Dec 27, 2017 |
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Arts of the Year 2017
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Dec 21, 2017 |
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Darwin: good, bad, ugly
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Dec 14, 2017 |
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Critical women
|
Dec 07, 2017 |
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Dancing with Anthony Powell
|
Nov 30, 2017 |
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BONUS: Geoff Dyer on Geoff Dyer
|
Nov 29, 2017 |
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Can Utopia survive 2017?
|
Nov 23, 2017 |
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The best books of 2017
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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A woman's 'Odyssey'
|
Nov 09, 2017 |
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A brand-new London theatre
|
Nov 02, 2017 |
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Kathy Acker's guts
|
Oct 25, 2017 |
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Matthew Arnold's good-bad poetry
|
Oct 18, 2017 |
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Valeria Luiselli on the US immigration crisis
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Oct 18, 2017 |
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Heavy with odours
|
Oct 11, 2017 |
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Authors of injustice
|
Oct 04, 2017 |
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Good, bad and loud feminist writing
|
Sep 27, 2017 |
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Free Speech vs Safe Space: the Great Campus Divide
|
Sep 27, 2017 |
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Samuel Beckett's turtle-neck, etc
|
Sep 20, 2017 |
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Matters poetical
|
Sep 13, 2017 |
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Peter Brook at work
|
Sep 13, 2017 |
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The world's most mysterious manuscript
|
Sep 05, 2017 |
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Pop science and Punjabi epics
|
Aug 30, 2017 |
|
Peak bullshit
|
Aug 16, 2017 |
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India's broken legacy
|
Aug 09, 2017 |
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Ian Nairn, route master
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Aug 02, 2017 |
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Trump and the great car crisis
|
Jul 26, 2017 |
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Jane Austen at 200
|
Jul 19, 2017 |
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'Let me be clear...'
|
Jul 12, 2017 |
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Robert Frost's aggression
|
Jul 05, 2017 |
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'Who shall we kill today?'
|
Jun 28, 2017 |
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What to read this summer: an almost-legendary TLS special edition
|
Jun 21, 2017 |
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The summer of shrug
|
Jun 14, 2017 |
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Embarrassing questions
|
Jun 07, 2017 |
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Football and the modern Middle East
|
May 31, 2017 |
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Is consciousness a thing?
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May 24, 2017 |
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How to get rid of your spouse
|
May 17, 2017 |
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States of the nations
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May 10, 2017 |
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#1. If This Is A Man – a live reading of Primo Levi's memoir of Auschwitz
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May 03, 2017 |
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Rousseau and the me me me memoir
|
May 03, 2017 |
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How comics got serious
|
Apr 26, 2017 |
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Primo Levi speaks
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Apr 19, 2017 |
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Beers with James Baldwin
|
Apr 12, 2017 |
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Poets, cannibals and philosophers
|
Apr 05, 2017 |
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Not so still lives
|
Mar 29, 2017 |
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Isherwood, from Weimar Berlin to Hollywood
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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A new French Revolution?
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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Fragments of the American Dream
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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George Saunders on 'Lincoln in the Bardo'
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Mar 08, 2017 |
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The Jam's literary credentials
|
Mar 02, 2017 |
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Anthony Burgess at 100
|
Feb 22, 2017 |
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Writing The Russian Revolution
|
Feb 15, 2017 |
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Cowgirls, Hockney, and how to write a bestseller
|
Feb 08, 2017 |
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The age of mass incarceration
|
Feb 02, 2017 |
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March on
|
Jan 26, 2017 |
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Reboots and reputations
|
Jan 19, 2017 |
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Bad sex, 'the Malala effect', layers of place
|
Jan 11, 2017 |
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Chilling, glitzy and dark
|
Jan 05, 2017 |
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The many faces of King’s Cross
|
Jan 02, 2017 |
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A monster success
|
Dec 30, 2016 |
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From book to box and beyond
|
Dec 26, 2016 |
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Overrated/Underrated
|
Dec 23, 2016 |
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Brexit, bubbles, and the best arts of 2016
|
Dec 21, 2016 |
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God, sex and the arts / science divide
|
Dec 15, 2016 |
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Defiance, good death and Mexico
|
Dec 07, 2016 |
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Controlled violence
|
Nov 30, 2016 |
|
Books of the Year
|
Nov 23, 2016 |
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Lionel Shriver: "Terror as recreation"
|
Nov 18, 2016 |
|
The life in the work
|
Nov 16, 2016 |
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Against nature
|
Nov 09, 2016 |
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Violence and poetry
|
Nov 03, 2016 |
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Halloween story special
|
Oct 28, 2016 |
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Shades of censorship
|
Oct 26, 2016 |
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Ali Smith on Autumn
|
Oct 21, 2016 |
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Life, writing and life-writing
|
Oct 19, 2016 |
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The mythical Lévi-Strauss
|
Oct 12, 2016 |
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A lecture by Terry Eagleton
|
Oct 07, 2016 |
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Duck or Rabbit?
|
Oct 05, 2016 |
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Rose Tremain at the Wimbledon Bookfest
|
Oct 03, 2016 |
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Beatrix Potter, marriage, and data
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Sep 28, 2016 |
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Hardy's London & the modern Middle East
|
Sep 21, 2016 |
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Ideas of Englishness
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Sep 14, 2016 |
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Beginnings of life and the end of the NHS
|
Sep 07, 2016 |
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Clare Lowdon on Safran Foer's great big dazzling novel
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Aug 31, 2016 |
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Eimear McBride on The Lesser Bohemians
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Aug 23, 2016 |
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Panama Papers, the Nero enigma & women in Hollywood
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Aug 17, 2016 |
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Brazil, Bloomsbury, and Geoff Dyer
|
Aug 10, 2016 |
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Edmund White on Nabokov
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Aug 03, 2016 |
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Andrew Motion on Housman
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Jul 27, 2016 |
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The view from Istanbul
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Jul 20, 2016 |
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Richard Ford on Donald Trump
|
Jul 13, 2016 |
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Tim Parks on translating Leopardi
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Jul 06, 2016 |
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Mary Beard on referenda
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Jun 29, 2016 |
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Fiction and the refugee crisis
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Jun 22, 2016 |
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Svetlana Alexievich and the Russian-Soviet soul
|
Jun 06, 2016 |
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Tessa Hadley and Sarah Hall in conversation
|
Jun 01, 2016 |
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Utopia – Then and Now (live from Kings Place)
|
May 27, 2016 |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
|
May 17, 2016 |
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Casanova's escape
|
May 16, 2016 |
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Thomas De Quincey
|
May 13, 2016 |
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Robert Browning's Poetic Characters
|
Apr 28, 2016 |
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Shakespeare and Cervantes, 400 years on
|
Apr 22, 2016 |
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Utopia at 500
|
Apr 20, 2016 |
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Being Jewish, being American
|
Apr 15, 2016 |
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Oscar Wilde and the Chatterton myth
|
Mar 07, 2016 |
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Henry James in the TLS
|
Mar 02, 2016 |
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Mary Beard
|
Feb 02, 2016 |
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Jane Austen's Emma
|
Jan 21, 2016 |
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"Tea at the Midland" by David Constantine
|
Jan 13, 2016 |
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Jacob Tonson's poets
|
Jan 11, 2016 |
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John Donne
|
Dec 11, 2015 |
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Vertigo
|
Dec 09, 2015 |
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Douglas Oliver: a poetic vision of the body politic
|
Sep 18, 2015 |
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J.H. Prynne: an examination of imagery
|
Sep 09, 2015 |
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Summer Holidays
|
Aug 12, 2015 |
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Cycling: tour de force
|
Jul 23, 2015 |
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Tennis: Game, Sex and Match
|
Jul 09, 2015 |
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John Fletcher
|
Jul 03, 2015 |
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Christine Brooke-Rose
|
Jun 26, 2015 |
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Waterloo
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Jun 18, 2015 |
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Byron
|
May 29, 2015 |
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Anthony Trollope
|
Apr 22, 2015 |
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Hermione Lee discusses Virginia Woolf
|
Mar 13, 2015 |
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Ruth Scurr discusses John Aubrey and the art of writing biography
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Feb 25, 2015 |
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Robert Herrick and John Evelyn
|
Jan 21, 2015 |
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Ariel poems
|
Dec 16, 2014 |
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T. E. Hulme
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Nov 19, 2014 |
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Ivor Gurney
|
Nov 05, 2014 |
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Gabriel-Ernest by Saki
|
Oct 30, 2014 |
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The Eyes by Edith Wharton
|
Oct 27, 2014 |
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There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard by M.R. James
|
Oct 23, 2014 |
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Laurie Lee with Ronald Blythe
|
Sep 18, 2014 |
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David Collard discusses Flametti by Hugo Ball
|
Aug 13, 2014 |
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Clive James
|
Aug 06, 2014 |
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Mary Beard talks Medea at The National Theatre
|
Jul 30, 2014 |
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Edward Thomas
|
Jun 25, 2014 |
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Summer Books - Alex Clark on The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
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Jun 18, 2014 |
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Summer Books - Frances Wilson on What You Want by Constantine Phipps
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Jun 15, 2014 |
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Summer Books - Lidija Haas on The Interior Circuit by Francisco Goldman
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Jun 13, 2014 |
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Summer Books - Mary Beard on Augustus by John Williams
|
Jun 11, 2014 |
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Cavafy
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May 28, 2014 |
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Apr 22, 2014 |
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Ian Hamilton
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Apr 02, 2014 |