LRB Films & Interviews
8 April 2021
In this feature-length documentary, Anthony Wilks traces the connections between the events of Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told, from his teenage years in Germany as Hitler came...
Podcasts & Videos
Podcasts
LRB Conversations
Abbess, Editor, CEO
Irina Dumitrescu and Thomas Jones, 21 April 2021
20 April 2021
Irina Dumitrescu talks to Thomas Jones about female authorship in early medieval England, and how the power and freedom that (some) women had in the eighth century challenges the idea of linear social...
Talking Politics
Union at the Crossroads
David Runciman and Helen Thompson, 22 April 2021
22 April 2021
David Runciman and Helen Thompson talk to Mike Kenny about what devolution has done to the politics of the UK as seen from Westminster and Whitehall. How have we ended up with a Unionism that is both complacent...
Close Readings
On Derek Walcott
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford, 21 April 2021
16 March 2021
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of the Saint Lucian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott.
Videos
Lectures & Events
Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan
Richard Lloyd Parry, 21 April 2021
11 March 2020
In his 2020 LRB Winter Lecture, Richard Lloyd Parry considers the paradoxical figure of Akihito, who abdicated in April 2019: a hereditary monarch, the son of the wartime emperor, Hirohito, strictly...
LRB Films & Interviews
Old Ties
Alan Bennett, 8 April 2021
24 December 2019
Alan Bennett examines his wardrobe, in his 2019 Diary.
Bookshop Events & Films
25 March 2021
Patricia Lockwood talks to John Lanchester about her debut novel No One is Talking About This.
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