Marching To Their Own Tune
This week, Dennis Zhou joins us to illuminate the activism, anarchism and agility of the poet Gary Snyder; and Hannah Skoda reports from the Globe on a bold reinterpretation of the life of Joan of Arc...
29 Sep 202249min
Vaccines On Stage, Elves On Screen
This week, we talk to Jonathan Spector about the European premiere of his play at the Old Vic; and Dimitra Fimi unpacks what's behind the new tv series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.Eureka...
22 Sep 202243min
Elizabeth II in History
Jane Ridley looks back at the Queen’s eight-decade reign Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
18 Sep 202215min
The Rise of Your Frenemy’s Sourdough
This week, Miranda France explores a suite of books about motherhood; and we survey the pick of this autumn’s fiction with Toby Lichtig. ‘Don’t Forget to Scream: Unspoken Truths About Motherhood’ by M...
15 Sep 202245min
The Hour Of Our Death
Emily Wilson considers how we address our final daysBook reviewed: The Mortal Coil: A history of death by Andrew DoigThe Inevitable: Dispatches on the right to die by Katie EngelhartAll the Living and...
11 Sep 202224min
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
This week, Thea Lenarduzzi joins us to explain how she captured the stories of her Italian grandmother; and Edmund Gordon admires how Ian McEwan’s new novel juxtaposes an individual life with memorabl...
8 Sep 202258min
Our New Gilded Age
Nat Segnit explores the strange world of the modern richBook reviewed: Serious Money: Walking plutocratic London by Caroline KnowlesA Class of Their Own: Adventures in tutoring the super-rich by Matt ...
4 Sep 202213min
Women In Cages, Everywhere
Alex Clark and Lucy Dallas are joined by Rohan Maitzen to discuss the new novel by Maggie O’Farrell, an ingenious and daring Browning version; and Sarah Hill charts musician Vashti Bunyan’s epic walk ...
1 Sep 202255min
