Close Readings
Close Readings is a multi-series podcast from the London Review of Books exploring different periods of literature through key works. Four new series each year.
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Books Podcast · Updated weekly · Close Readings is a new multi-series podcast subscription from the London Review of Books. Two contributors explore areas of literature through a selection of key works, providing an introductory grou…
Conversations in Philosophy
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Conversations in Philosophy
Philosophy Podcast · Updated Monthly · Jonathan Rée and James Wood challenge a hundred years of academic convention by reuniting the worlds of philosophy and literature, as they consider how style, narrative, and the expression of ideas pl…
Fiction and the Fantastic
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Fiction and the Fantastic
Books Podcast · Updated Monthly · Marina Warner, Anna Della Subin, Adam Thirlwell and Chloe Aridjis traverse the great parallel tradition of the literature of astonishment and wonder, dread and hope, from the 1001 Nights to Ursula K. …
Novel Approaches
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Novel Approaches
Books Podcast · Updated Monthly · Clare Bucknell, Thomas Jones and guests discuss a selection of 19th-century (mostly) English novels from Mansfield Park to New Grub Street, looking in particular at the roles played in the books by mo…
Love and Death
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Love and Death
Books Podcast · Updated Monthly · Mark Ford and Seamus Perry explore the oscillating power of outrage and grief, bitterness and consolation, in poetry in English from the Renaissance to the present day. Their series will consider the …
On Satire
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On Satire
Books Podcast · Monthly Series · Clare Bucknell and Colin Burrow attempt, over twelve episodes, to chart a stable course through some of the most unruly, vulgar, incoherent, savage and outright hilarious works in all of English liter…
Among the Ancients
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Among the Ancients
Books Podcast · Complete Series · Emily Wilson, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and translator of both the 'Odyssey' and the 'Iliad', joins Thomas Jones, an editor at the London Review of Books, for a …
Human Conditions
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Human Conditions
Books Podcast · Monthly Series · Adam Shatz talks separately to three guests – Judith Butler, Pankaj Mishra and Brent Hayes Edwards – about some of the most revolutionary thought of the 20th century. Judith, Pankaj and Brent will ea…
Medieval LOLs
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Medieval LOLs
Books Podcast · Monthly Series · Were the Middle Ages funny? To answer that question, Mary Wellesley and Irina Dumitrescu hunt through some of the rudest, silliest and surprising works in English literature in search of the Medieval …
Political Poems
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Political Poems
Books Podcast · Updated Monthly · Seamus Perry and Mark Ford consider poems that have been understood, admired and perhaps criticised for their politics, ranging across several hundred years of literary history. Mark Ford is Professor…
Medieval Beginnings
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Medieval Beginnings
Books Podcast · Complete Series · From dragons and one-eyed giants to divine visions and friendly otters, Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley roam the strange and wonderful literary landscape of the Middle Ages, from Beowulf to Sir Jo…
The Long and Short
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The Long and Short
Books Podcast · Complete Series · Mark Ford and Seamus Perry follow on from their ‘revolutionary ☆☆☆☆☆’ (The Times) series on 'Modern-ish Poets' , to look at long poems and the short stories in 19th- and 20th-century literature. Mark …
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