Festive Shadows and Feasts of Panackelty
This week, Lucy Lethbridge explains what a curate's eye is, and how ideas of British cooking range from Aga fantasies to bacon butties; and J. S. Barnes takes us to the dark side of the festive season...
22 Dec 202243min
Simon McBurney of Complicité - "We've always been interested in the idea of connection"
Simon McBurney, the artistic director of the endlessly innovative and influential Complicité theatre company, talks to Lucy Dallas about two of their major new projects. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
18 Dec 202239min
The Power of Connections
This week, we hear how the music-hall star Josephine Baker became a secret agent; and we talk to Simon McBurney of Complicité theatre company, about their haunting audio production of Susan Cooper's T...
15 Dec 202247min
The Road To St Helena
Alan Forrest on Napoleon’s enemies at home and abroad.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/napoleon-michael-broers-napoleon-at-peace-william-doyle-book-review-alan-forrest/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
11 Dec 202221min
Female Perspectives Take Centre Stage
This week, Breeze Barrington takes us through a history of art with a difference - there are no men; and Larry Wolff talks us through the diva-rich operatic event of the season, the world premiere of ...
8 Dec 202245min
His Biggest Role
Anna Reid on the improbable rise of Volodymyr Zelenskyhttps://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/volodymyr-zelensky-biographies-book-review-anna-reid/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...
4 Dec 202221min
Roman Coins And Radical Rosa Bonheur
This week, Mary Beard talks us through coins and emperors, real and fake, and the hidden networks beneath the Roman Empire; and Norma Clarke discusses the life and work of Rosa Bonheur, a celebrated f...
1 Dec 202248min
Conquering Sociopaths
Michele Pridmore-Brown on the troubled dreams of the gods of the digital universehttps://www.the-tls.co.uk./articles/survival-of-the-richest-douglas-rushkoff-book-review-michele-pridmore-brown/ Hosted...
28 Nov 202216min
