Podcasts

James Wood talks to Thomas Jones about Beethoven.

Rupert Beale talks to Thomas Jones about the new Sars-CoV-2 vaccines, how the mRNA technology works, why social distancing still matters, and why he’s worried about Christmas. (The conversation was...

Ange Mlinko talks to Joanne O’Leary about the work of Denise Riley, following the publication last year of Riley’s Selected Poems: 1976-2016 and her essay Time Lived, without...

David Runciman and Helen Thompson look at what's changed – and what hasn't – since the last episode of Talking Politics, from Brexit to Biden to Covid. Has the Brexit deal really...

A recording of a recent talk by David on what we've learned in 2020 about the resilience of democratic societies in the face of disaster. Has the experience of Covid shown us how we can deal with...

This week David, Helen and our producer Catherine Carr look back at five years of podcasting and five years of crazy politics, to pick our favourite moments and to discuss what we've learned. From...

In the latest episode of Close Readings, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford turn to the life and work of Adrienne Rich, the great poetic interrogator of the American family home as a site of trauma for daughters...

In the latest episode in their series of Close Readings, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Robert Frost, the great American poet of fences and dark woods.

In the first episode in a new series of Close Readings, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford take on Gerard Manley Hopkins: Victorian literature’s only anti-modern proto-modernist queer-ecologist Jesuit priest.

Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga discusses her Booker-shortlisted novel, This Mournable Body, with writer Sara Collins.

Kirsty Gunn talks to Max Porter about her latest novel, Caroline’s Bikini, a powerful retelling of one of the oldest stories in western literature – that of unrequited love.

In For a Left Populism, leading political thinker Chantal Mouffe proposes a new way to define left populism today. She discusses it here with Jon Trickett, Labour MP for Hemsworth.