Mary Beard
On the 10th anniversary of her blog, A Don's Life, The TLS' Classics Editor Mary Beard joins Rozalind Dineen to discuss its success. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...
2 Feb 201616min
Jane Austen's Emma
Michael Caines and Catharine Morris celebrate the bicentenary of Jane Austen's magnificent novel and its quixotic heroine.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...
21 Jan 201616min
"Tea at the Midland" by David Constantine
Michael Caines reads a short story about a man and a woman taking tea, watching the surfers at Morecambe Bay – and falling out over art.For more information, head to www.the-tls.co.uk Hosted on Acast....
13 Jan 201614min
Jacob Tonson's poets
A selection of poems by Aphra Behn, John Milton, Alexander Pope and the Earl of Rochester.Read by Michael Caines, Mika Ross-Southall and Alan Jenkins. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...
11 Jan 201614min
John Donne
John Donne was the greatest English dramatic poet who never wrote a play. Here, Alan Jenkins reads a selection of his works. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
11 Des 201516min
Vertigo
Vertigo special: Toby Lichtig of The TLS introduces David Collard who compares Alfred Hitchcock's film interpretation to the original novel.The film was recently voted 'the best of all time' by 846 cr...
9 Des 201514min
Douglas Oliver: a poetic vision of the body politic
Michael Caines looks back to Douglas Oliver's long poem The Infant and the Pearl, first published in 1985 – a poetic vision of the contemporary political scene, among other things, cast in the mould o...
18 Sep 201515min
J.H. Prynne: an examination of imagery
We discuss a poem by J.H. Prynne called To Pollen, from 2006, which conducts its own examination of the uses and misuses of images and stories of suffering.Read by Robert Potts.Find out more: www.the-...
9 Sep 20159min
