From Battleground to Billiard Table
This week, we learn about the final years of the Napoleonic era, poke around the exclusive gentlemen’s watering holes of Pall Mall, and discover how Roy Orbison ended up meeting his wife in Batley Var...
27 Okt 202247min
Acid Raine
Laura Thompson on the much-married daughter of Barbara Cartland who became Lady Diana’s stepmotherhttps://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/three-times-a-countess-tina-gaudoin-book-review-laura-thompson/ Hos...
23 Okt 202212min
A Journey Into The Ambiguous Afterlife
This week, Toby Lichtig interviews the new Booker laureate, Shehan Karunatilaka, and discovers why he killed off his protagonist; and we explore the latest developments in a Chaucerian controversy.‘Th...
20 Okt 202252min
Beyond Flesh and Blood
Michele Pridmore-Brown considers our quest for godlike immortalityhttps://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/hybrid-humans-harry-parker-the-price-of-immortality-peter-ward-book-review-michele-pridmore-brown/ ...
16 Okt 202224min
Measuring Our Lives, One Reindeer At A Time
Richard Dunn joins Alex and Lucy to discuss how humanity began to measure the world around it; and Lauren Elkin illuminates the immense artistic contribution of Annie Ernaux, this winner of this year’...
13 Okt 202248min
What's For Dinner?
Bill McKibben considers the future of farming in a rapidly warming worldhttps://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/rooted-sarah-langford-sixty-harvests-left-philip-lymbery-regenesis-george-monbiot-review-bill...
9 Okt 202226min
United We Stand
Sofia Chelyak joins us to preview this weekend’s Lviv International Book Forum, in which guests including Margaret Atwood and Henry Marsh will join Ukrainian writers and thinkers in an online extravag...
6 Okt 202248min
If We Only Had Eyes To See
Charles Foster considers the extraordinary variety of animals’ sensory worldshttps://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/an-immense-world-ed-yong-book-review-charles-foster/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...
2 Okt 202212min
