LRB Films & Interviews

Short films, long films and interviews drawn from the pages of the LRB.

Walking the Last London

Iain Sinclair, 21 December 2022

28 March 2017 · 14mins

Iain Sinclair gives a tour around the area near his home in Hackney, London.

From Tocqueville to Trump

David Runciman, 21 December 2022

22 December 2016 · 16mins

David Runciman reflects on Trump, Brexit and threats to democracy, with some help from Alexis de Tocqueville.

25 July 2016 · 02mins

Follow the creation of an edition of the London Review of Books, from editorial floor to your front door.

What is a week-end?

Rosemary Hill, 21 December 2022

19 July 2016 · 02mins

Rosemary Hill answers the Dowager Duchess’s question from Downton Abbey.

Seydou Keïta: The Theatre of Aspiration

Jeremy Harding, 21 December 2022

14 July 2016 · 02mins

Jeremy Harding examines the work of Malian portrait photographer Seydou Keïta and the lively collaboration between himself and his sitters in the years before Mail’s independence.

On the Killing of Osama bin Laden

Seymour M. Hersh and Christian Lorentzen, 21 December 2022

13 May 2016 · 43mins

Seymour Hersh talks to Christian Lorentzen about his piece for the LRB on the killing of Osama bin Laden and how the work of an investigative reporter has changed.

From Samuel Pepys to Crossrail

Andrew O’Hagan, 21 December 2022

15 December 2015 · 07mins

Andrew O’Hagan retraces Samuel Pepys’s infuriating journey to work and tries to cross Tottenham Court Road.