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This week, Alex Clark and Lucy Dallas look forward to 2025's most tempting reading, plan a Jane Austen road trip and resolve to sit up straight.Produced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a special interview, Lucy Dallas meets artist William Kentridge to explore his new set of films.'Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot', by William Kentridge, available on Mubi Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Oonagh Devitt Tremblay is intrigued by the multiple voices in Sarah Moss's new memoir; and Lucy Dallas speaks to artist William Kentridge.'My Good Bright Wolf', by Sarah Moss'Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot', by William Kentridge, streaming on Mubi Produced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Simon McBurney, the artistic director of the endlessly innovative and influential Complicité theatre company, talks to Lucy Dallas about two of their major new projects. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Alex Clark and Lucy Dallas explore the rise to prominence of Volodymyr Zelensky, the satirical stand-up turned president and war leader; and blow the cobwebs off the world's rarest medieval manuscripts.'The Zelensky Effect' by Olga Onuch and Henry E Hale'Zelensky: Ukraine's president and his country' by Steven Derix with Marina Shelkunova, translated by Brent Annable'The Fight of Our Lives: My time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's battle for democracy, and what it means for the world' by Iuliia Mendel, translated by Madeline G Levine'Zelensky: A biography' by Serhii Rudenko, translated by Michael M Naydan and Alla Perminova'The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club' by Christopher de HamelProduced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 from London to Scotland in search of freedom.‘The Marriage Portrait' by Maggie O'Farrell‘Wayward: Just Another Life to Live' by Vashti Bunyan‘Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir' by Martha Wainwright‘This Woman's Work: Essays on Music' edited by Sinéad Gleeson and Kim GordonProduced by Charlotte Pardy Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the last of our August highlights programmes, Alex Clark and Lucy Dallas talk self-improvement with Kathryn Hughes and step into the mire of Westminster with Edward Docx. And we revisit a magical Hay Festival moment courtesy of correspondents Lyse Doucet and Sana Safi.Produced by Charlotte Pardy. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Alex Clark and Lucy Dallas look back at a riveting and prescient conversation with climate writer David Wallace-Wells; plus Margaret Drabble on the allure of roses, and Jeremy Mynott on our affinity with birds.Produced by Charlotte Pardy. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Alex Clark and Lucy Dallas are joined by Paul Muldoon to celebrate Bloomsday with a close reading of the very first few words of Ulysses; there's news from the world of Ukrainian literature; and Toby Lichtig catches up with Tessa Hadley at the Hay Festival.‘Ulysses' by James Joyce ‘The Orphanage' by Sergiy Zhadan‘Free Love' by Tessa HadleyProduced by Charlotte Pardy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join Alex Clark, Lucy Dallas and Toby Lichtig as they chat to the BBC correspondents Lyse Doucet and Sana Safi, and to the legendary documentarian Norma Percy, in a special conversation recorded live at the Hay Festival.‘My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women', compiled by Lucy Hannah, with an introduction by Lyse Doucet‘Afghanistan and Me: A Female Perspective', an audio documentary by Sana SafiProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark are joined by Lucy Hughes-Hallett to discuss two books about Mussolini's Italy, and train buff extraordinaire Andrew Martin gets on board with a history of British Rail.‘Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism' by John Foot'Mussolini Also Did a Lot of Good: The Spread of Historical Amnesia' by Francesco Filippi‘British Rail: A New History' by Christian WolmarProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark are joined by Tom Seymour Evans to head for the beaches of Fire Island, and the TLS's French editor Russell Williams surveys the country's philosophical and political landscape, past and present.‘Fire Island: Love, loss and liberation in an American paradise' by Jack Parlett'The French Mind: 400 years of romance, revolution and renewal' by Peter Watson‘France: An adventure history' by Graham RobbProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark are joined by TLS classics editor Mary Beard to find out what the Romans brought back from their holidays, and novelist Edward Docx is roused to righteous fury over the parlous state of the House of Commons.‘Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman empire's souvenirs' by Kimberly Cassibry'Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome' by Maggie L. Popkin‘Held in Contempt: What's wrong with the House of Commons?' by Hannah White Produced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Lucy Dallas is joined by Kathryn Sutherland to tuck into the three o'clock dinners of Joseph Johnson, publisher and friend of Mary Wollstonecraft, Joseph Priestley, Henry Fuseli, Williams Blake and Wordsworth, and many more great minds of that era. And Boyd Tonkin explains that Napoleon's conqueror, the "Iron Duke" of Wellington, had a great and unexpected gift for friendship - with women.'Dinner with Joseph Johnson' by Daisy Hay'Wellington, women and friendship' at Apsley House, London, until October 30Produced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark are joined by Joe Moran to explore the strange world of precognition, and Elizabeth Lowry is bowled over by the iconoclastic work of South African multimedia artist William Kentridge. Plus great news for Terry Pratchett fans, as an all-star cast records his much-loved Discworld series.'The Premonitions Bureau' by Sam Knight‘SYBIL' by William KentridgeProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark are joined by Carol Tavris to discuss two wide-ranging works of biology that cast fascinating light on our understanding of sexual behaviour and gender identity throughout the animal and human world. And James Waddell explores a “bibliobiography” by a Shakespeare scholar that digs deep into centuries of books and their readers - from “shelfies” to book burning to the historical precedent for Jilly Cooper's Riders.'Different: Gender through the eyes of a primatologist' by Frans de Waal‘Bitch: A revolutionary guide to sex, evolution and the female animal' by Lucy Cooke‘Portable Magic: A history of books and their readers' by Emma SmithProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark are joined by Nat Segnit to discuss the long reach of the gambling industry and the music of chance, and Kevin Brazil brings to life a dystopian novel from 1977.‘Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain' by Rob Davies‘Might Bite: The Secret Life of a Gambling Addict' by Patrick Foster, with Will Macpherson‘Big Snake Little Snake: An Inquiry into Risk' by DBC Pierre'They' by Kay DickProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark are joined by Dinah Birch to discuss Elizabeth Finch, the new novel by Julian Barnes, and find themselves in a world of charismatic teachers and forgotten Roman emperors. Also, the sports historian David Goldblatt explores a global survey of sport through the ages from the ancient Chinese game of cuju to the glories of Bristol Rovers.‘Elizabeth Finch' by Julian Barnes‘Games People Played: A Global History of Sport' by Wray VamplewProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark are joined by Emma Clery, specialist in 18th and 19th-century literature and author of Jane Austen: The Banker's Sister, to discuss what Austen's juvenilia and unpublished works tell us about the writer - will we find, as some critics have suggested, a far less restrained and irreverent novelist than we might expect? And Catherine Taylor, who is writing a memoir of her Sheffield upbringing, explores two accounts of growing up in the north of England.‘Jane Austen, Early and Late' by Freya Johnston‘Lady Susan, Sanditon and The Watsons: Unfinished Fictions and Other Writings by Jane Austen' edited by Kathryn Sutherland‘My Own Worst Enemy: Scenes of a Childhood' by Robert Edric‘No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader' by Mark HodkinsonProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Cal Flyn, the author of 'Islands of Abandonment: Life in the post-human landscape', to venture into the 'extreme north' – part place, part concept – where sparsely populated landscapes have long offered a blank canvas on which to project hopes, dreams and neuroses; the critic En Liang Khong considers Ai Weiwei's artistic rebellion against the Chinese state, situating its roots in the artist's early years and relationship with his father'Extreme North: A cultural history' by Bernd Brunner, translated by Jefferson Chase‘1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny' by Ai WeiWeiProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Miranda France, the TLS's Hispanic editor, to discuss the Mexican writer Fernanda Melchor and two new works that approach brutal and brutalized lives in innovative ways; Michael Caines, also of the TLS, considers a collection of essays that sets out to complicate stereotypes of East and Southeast Asian identity in Britain; and there's focus on film, including Nosferatu at 100, unsung heroines of the big screen, and a fresh look at Marilyn Monroe's difficult stay in London.‘Paradais' by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes‘Aquí no es Miami' by Fernanda Melchor‘East Side Voices: Essays celebrating East and Southeast Asian identity in Britain', edited by Helena Lee‘When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's life in England' by Michelle Morgan ‘The Performer's Tale: Nine lives of Patience Collier' By Vanessa Morton‘Forever Young: A memoir' by Hayley Mills‘The Great Peace: A memoir' by Mena Suvari‘Movie Workers: The women who made British cinema' by Melanie BellProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the critic Nelly Kaprièlian and the TLS's French editor Russell Williams to discuss ‘Anéantir', the latest novel by France's best-known and maybe most controversial writer, Michel Houellebecq; the TLS's Toby Lichtig talks us through a new memoir by the ‘pre-eminent author of British Jewish novels', Howard Jacobson, and we consider a masterclass in sympathy from Anne Tyler, a tale of revenge by Japan's ‘Queen of mysteries', and a wartime reckoning in Finland.‘Anéantir' by Michel Houellebecq‘Mother's Boy: A writer's beginnings' by Howard Jacobson‘French Braid' by Anne Tyler‘Lady Joker: Volume one' by Kaoru Takamura, translated by Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell ‘Land of Snow & Ashes' by Petra Rautiainen, translated by David HackstonProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the writer and critic Mary Norris to discuss the phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood – surely her kind of success requires a method? A new collection of essays and talks sheds some light; Sujit Sivasundaram, the author of ‘Waves Across the South: A new history of revolution and empire', considers a work of non-fiction by the novelist Amitav Ghosh which paints a compelling picture of how the trade in nutmeg prefigured today's environmental crisis‘Burning Questions: Essays and occasional pieces 2004–2021' by Margaret Atwood‘The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a planet in crisis' by Amitav GhoshProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the critic Muriel Zagha to discuss a new play by Florian Zeller, ‘the most successful representative of contemporary French theatre'; Kathryn Hughes, the author of ‘Victorians Undone: Tales of the flesh in the age of decorum', explores the cultural significance of passing out, from ‘Troilus and Criseyde' to ‘Fifty Shades of Grey', via Shakespeare and Bram Stoker; plus, a poem by Ange Mlinko, ‘Storm Windows' ‘The Forest' by Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton, Hampstead Theatre, until March 12‘Swoon: A poetics of passing out' by Naomi BoothProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Jeremy Mynott, the author of ‘Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience' and ‘Birds in the Ancient World', to ponder 12,000 years of human–bird relations. ‘How is it that, despite a historically deep-rooted veneration, we could also have predated, exploited and depleted bird populations to the point where more than one in ten species is now threatened with extinction?'; and Janet Montefiore, Chair of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society, asks whether this vivid and varied satirical novelist might finally take her place alongside Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen among the canon of accepted classics? Plus, a Life of the poet Valentine Ackland, still best known as Warner's partner‘Flight From Grace: A cultural history of humans and birds' by Richard Pope ‘Avian Illuminations: A cultural history of birds' by Boria Sax‘Birds and Us: A 12,000-year history: from cave art to conservation' by Tim Birkhead ‘Valentine Ackland: A transgressive life' by Frances Bingham‘Lolly Willowes', ‘Mr Fortune's Maggot', ‘ The True Heart', ‘Summer Will Show', etc, by Sylvia Townsend Warner – for other books by Warner, find Janet Montefiore's article at the-tls.co.uk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark are joined by Sara Hudston to talk about how to write about our environment, who gets to write about it, why it is so crucial - and "horsey" books; and James McConnachie, himself a keen player, discusses the future of strategy games, given that the computers are increasingly beating the humansWomen on Nature, edited by Katherine NorburyWild Isles, edited by Patrick Barkham Gifts of Gravity and Light, edited by Anita Roy and Pippa MarlandOut of Time: Poetry from the climate emergency, edited by Kate SimpsonSeven Games: A Human History by Oliver RoederProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, to mark 100 years since the publication of ‘Ulysses', Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the novelist Audrey Magee to discuss how James Joyce wrestled with the demands, political and personal, of the Irish language; the anthropologist and science writer Barbara J. King reviews Andrea Arnold's film ‘Cow', which attempts to show life from an animal's perspective; plus, Mary Beard shares a few thoughts on Roman kissing.'Cow', directed by Andrea ArnoldProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Benjamin Markovits, the novelist, critic and teacher of creative writing, to discuss 100 American essays spanning 300-odd years (‘have we got any better at it?'); the sinologist Rana Mitter discusses the supremely difficult, and controversial, job of adapting the Chinese script for the modern age; plus, ‘Edelweiss', a poignant new poem by Fiona Benson‘The Glorious American Essay: One hundred essays from colonial times to the present', edited by Phillip Lopate‘Kingdom of Characters: A tale of language, obsession, and genius in modern China' by Jing TsuProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the writer and broadcaster Muriel Zagha to discuss 'Nightmare Alley', an unsettling vision of delight and deceit from the Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro; the historian Abigail Green explores the untold stories of the women behind Europe's premier banking dynasty, the Rothschilds; plus, a dinosaur poem of note'Nightmare Alley', various cinemas'The Women of Rothschild: The untold story of the world's most famous dynasty' by Natalie LivingstoneProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the poet A. E. Stallings to reconsider the ground-breaking work of Edna St Vincent Millay, a modern but not modernist poet, once judged 'the most glamorous, sexually-dangerous since Byron'; Thomas Morris, the author of medical and crime histories, delves into the often-troubling history of medical transplants; plus, a new poem by Ben Wilkinson, ‘What We Were''Poems and Satires' by Edna St Vincent Millay, edited by Tristram Fane Saunders 'Spare Parts: A surprising history of transplants' by Paul CraddockProduced by Sophia Franklin. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the writer and translator Chiara Marchelli to revisit the work of Antonio Tabucchi, a master of the uncanny, ten years after his death; and the multilingual critic Irina Dumitrescu discusses a poignant study of bilingualism that considers how mother tongues are lost and found and at what cost‘Little Misunderstandings of No Importance: And other stories', by Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Frances Frenaye‘Requiem: A hallucination', by Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Margaret Jull Costa‘Pereira Maintains: A testimony', by Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Patrick Creagh‘Memory Speaks: On losing and reclaiming language and self' by Julie SedivyProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas look back at this year's podcasts. We hear from Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Drabble, Mary Beard and Paul Muldoon, among others, covering literature, film, art, poetry and much more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas look back at this year's podcasts. We hear from Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Drabble, Mary Beard and Paul Muldoon, among others, covering literature, film, art, poetry and much more.Produced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Emer Nolan, Professor of English at Maynooth University, to discuss the letters of John McGahern, one of Ireland's most accomplished writers of fiction; How did Napoleon get his hands on Veronese's enormous masterpiece “The Wedding Feast at Cana”, once safely housed in a Venetian monastery? Does it matter and should we do anything to remedy the situation? Ruth Scurr, the author of ‘Napoleon: A Life told in gardens and shadows', considers Napoleon's thirst for art, and its legacy; plus, a quick look at some of 2021's most favourably reviewed films and plays ‘The Letters of John McGahern', edited by Frank Shovlin‘Napoleon's Plunder: And the theft of Veronese's Feast' by Cynthia SaltzmanProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Francesca Wade, at work on a book about Gertrude Stein's afterlife, to discuss Stein's ‘lost' notebooks – and the magnificent amount of research conducted by Leon Katz, who discovered them some seventy years ago – and shed new light on the writer's process and personal life; and the musician and critic Wesley Stace takes us back to a stormy but productive time in the life of The Beatles, via a new film by Peter Jackson‘No no no, nonsense, never: Hidden notebooks reveal the tense relationships behind Gertrude Stein's genius' by Francesca Wade, in this week's TLS.‘The Beatles: Get Back', on Disney+Produced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark discuss roses, Orwell and rhizomatic thinking with Margaret Drabble; Kathryn Hughes is our guide through histories of self-improvement; plus, what log-rolling really means.'Orwell's Roses' by Rebecca Solnit'The Art of Self-Improvement' by Anna Katharina SchaffnerThe Log Driver's Waltz: https://www.nfb.ca/film/log_drivers_waltzProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by TLS editors to look through twelve months of intriguing books, as nominated by contributors including Mary Beard, the poet Paul Muldoon and the writer and critic Marina Warner, covering a range of genres and subjects, from ancient Greek swear words to fictional messiahsFor the full round-up, go to the-tls.co.uk/ Produced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Lucy Dallas and Toby Lichtig are guided by Mark Ford through Concord, Massachusetts, the home of Emerson, Thoreau and the Transcendentalists; we talk to Susan Owens about the mystery and melancholy of lighted windows seen from outside; plus, new work from Dave Eggers and Zadie Smith'The Transcendentalists and their world' by Robert A. Gross'The Every' by Dave Eggers'The Wife of Willesden' by Zadie Smith'The Lighted Window: Evening walks remembered' by Peter DavidsonProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

cThis week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Michael Sherborne to consider a master of science fiction, H. G. Wells, whose life was a runaway spaceship… until it ran out of steam; Niki Segnit, the author of ‘The Flavour Thesaurus', explores some of the world's rarest and most endangered foods; plus how sustainable – ecologically and economically – is book selling?‘The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the world' by Claire Tomalin‘The City of Dr Moreau' by J. S. Barnes‘Eating To Extinction: The world's rarest foods and why we need to save them' by Dan SaladinoProduced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, ahead of COP26, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by David Wallace-Wells, the author of ‘The Uninhabitable Earth', to discuss a flurry of new books on climate change and what to do about it, from quiet reflection to radical, explosive action; and the biographer of royals A. N. Wilson considers a lively new Life of King George V that suggests the monarch wasn't that dull after all‘Deep Adaptation: Navigating the realities of climate chaos', edited by Jem Bendell and Rupert Read‘How To Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to fight in a world on fire' by Andreas Malm‘Saving Us: A climate scientist's case for hope and healing in a divided world' by Katharine Hayhoe‘Geopolitics For the End Time: From the pandemic to the climate crisis' by Bruno Maçães'George V: Never a dull moment' by Jane RidleyProducer: Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Russell Williams, to talk through the uniquely French phenomenon of the rentrée littéraire - the politics, the scandals, the big beasts and the new voices; and Michele Pridmore-Brown considers a recent book that offers a cultural history of breast milk and the rise of the bottle.‘White Blood: A history of human milk' by Lawrence Trevelyan Weaver A special subscription offer for TLS podcast listeners: www.the-tls.co.uk/buy/podProducer: Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Peter Parker, the biographer of J. R. Ackerley and Christopher Isherwood among others, to reconsider the gestation and legacy of E. M. Forster's final novel, ‘Maurice', a love story between men across the class divide, published fifty years ago; ‘Keep up, watch out: Or why the people next door have always mattered' – the historian Arnold Hunt reviews two studies of neighbourly love, and hate, in early modern Britain.‘Faith, Hope and Charity: English neighbourhoods, 1500–1640' by Andy Wood‘Caritas: Neighbourly love and the early modern self' by Katie Barclay See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the scholars Janet Todd and Derek Hughes to revisit the life and work of Restoration England's first woman of letters, the playwright Aphra Behn, who “seems formed for our noisy, sex-obsessed times”; the translator, poet and critic Sasha Dugdale considers Russian protest poetry and the rise of Galina Rymbu; plus, literary festivals rebooted.‘The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn: Volume IV: Plays, 1682–1696', edited by Rachel Adcock, et al‘F Letter: New Russian feminist poetry', edited by Galina Rymbu, Eugene Ostashevsky and Ainsley Morse; translated by Eugene Ostashevsky, Ainsley Morse, Alex Karsavin, Helena Kernan, Kit Eginton, Valzhyna Mort and Kevin M. F. Platt‘Life In Space' by Galina Rymbu; translated by Joan BrooksValzhyna Mort's translation of the poem 'Summer', read by Sasha Dugdale, also appears at - www.granta.com/summer-gates-of-the-body‘The Scar We Know', a bi-lingual edition of Lida Yusupova's poetry with introductions by Oksana Vasyakina and Ainsley Morse, has just been published by Cicada BooksA special subscription offer for TLS podcast listeners: www.the-tls.co.uk/buy/podProducer: Ben Mitchell See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Skye C. Cleary to discuss Simone de Beauvoir's ‘lost' novel, ‘The Inseparables', published almost seventy years after it was written; Anna Picard reviews a very dark production of ‘Rigoletto' at the Royal Opera House; plus, buying and selling (and maybe stealing) Emily Dickinson's hair (maybe).'The Inseparables' by Simone de Beauvoir'Rigoletto' by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Royal Opera House, until September 29, then February–March, 2022 A special subscription offer for TLS podcast listeners: www.the-tls.co.uk/buy/podProducer: Ben Mitchell See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Lucy Dallas and Toby Lichtig are joined by the critic and gym-sceptic Irina Dumitrescu to consider a clutch of books about fitness – how it came to be the industry it is, what it means to us, even what the smell of sweat does; Alex Clark, a regular contributor to the TLS's fiction pages, runs through this year's Booker Prize shortlist, just announced, before turning to a real-life story that reads like a mystery novel: the “Stonehouse affair”, the tale of the MP and former Cabinet minister John Stonehouse, who disappeared while swimming from a private beach in Miami The Age of Fitness: How the body came to symbolize success and achievement by Jürgen MartschukatExercised: The science of physical activity, rest and health by Daniel LiebermanThe Joy of Sweat: The strange science of perspiration by Sarah EvertsThe Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison BechdelJohn Stonehouse, My Father: The true story of the runaway MP, by Julia StonehouseStonehouse: Cabinet minister, fraudster, spy by Julian Hayes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Dallas and Michael Caines are joined by Dennis Duncan, the author of ‘Index, A History of the', to discuss how we navigate the contents between books' covers, taking in alphabets, concordances, ancient search engines and much more; What is Substack: a publishing start-up or a reboot of a nineteenth-century literary idea?; and the writer and translator Miranda France discusses a new book by the famed psychogeographer Iain Sinclair, which takes us to Peru, in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, who made a fascinating and, to us, troubling expedition to the Upper Amazon region in 1891.‘Index, A History of the' by Dennis Duncan‘The Gold Machine: In the tracks of the mule dancers' by Iain SinclairA special subscription offer for TLS podcast listeners: www.the-tls.co.uk/buy/podProducer: Ben Mitchell See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Throughout August, we are revisiting the very best of the podcast during the last year.In this episode; the TLS's fiction editor Toby Lichtig talks to Douglas Stuart about his 2020 Booker Prize-winning novel Shuggie Bain, the writer Laura Thompson joins Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas to discuss the work of Agatha Christie and how she has managed to move with the times, and Edmund Gordon to reviews 'Klara and the Sun' - Kazuo Ishiguro's new Booker Prize longlisted novel about an Artificial Friend.A special subscription offer for TLS podcast listeners: www.the-tls.co.uk/buy/podProducer: Ben Mitchell See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Thomas Morris, the author of 'The Matter of the Heart: A history of the heart in eleven operations', to discuss the extraordinary life and influence of the Nobel prize-winning Jewish biochemist Otto Warburg, whose research into cancer, as well as his audacious character, helped him to survive Nazi Germany; the art critic and historian Frances Spalding celebrates the energetic and sophisticated paintings of Nina Hamnett, whose colourful social life has tended to eclipse her talents. Plus, Shakespeare in the open air.Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the search for the cancer-diet connection, by Sam AppleNina Hamnett, Charleston, Sussex, until August 30thA special subscription offer for TLS podcast listeners: www.the-tls.co.uk/buy/podProducer: Ben Mitchell See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Nick Groom, Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau, to discuss William Blake, who saw wonders everywhere (including a tree on Peckham Rye), and communicated them urgently in art and poetry – what does he have to tell us now?; the critic and writer Michael Kerrigan guides us through the ‘improbably enthralling mundanities' of the Uruguayan novelist Mario Levrero; plus, a dazzling history of Sicily, the demise of local journalism, and ‘bald' philosophy.William Blake Vs the World by John HiggsThe Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero, translated by Annie McDermottPanic as Man Burns Crumpets: The vanishing world of the local journalist by Roger LytollisBald: 35 philosophical short cuts by Simon CritchleyThe Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean history by Jamie MackayA special subscription offer for TLS podcast listeners: www.the-tls.co.uk/buy/podProducer: Ben Mitchell See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas as joined by Keith Hopper, a critic of film and literature, to revisit the film ‘Midnight Cowboy' (1969), a 'dark, difficult masterpiece' starring Jon Voight as an aspirant sex worker and Dustin Hoffman as his friend, an ailing con man; before it's available in English, the journalist Henri Astier delves into the 'secret' diary of Michel Barnier, the European Union's Brexit negotiator, who the British tabloids named 'the most dangerous man in Europe'; plus, what does Brexit mean for books? ‘Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, sex, loneliness, liberation, and the making of a dark classic' by Glenn Frankel‘La Grande Illusion: Journal secret du Brexit (2016-2020)' by Michel BarnierA special subscription offer for TLS podcast listeners: www.the-tls.co.uk/buy/pod See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.