The TLS Podcast
By The TLS
A weekly podcast on books and culture brought to you by the writers and editors of the Times Literary Supplement.
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Latest episode
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Scratch The Surface
Irina Dumitrescu considers what psoriasis tells us about social outcasts.https://www.the-tls.co.… -
Private Faces In Public Places
This week, Margarette Lincoln on the secret life of Daniel Defoe, government agent; and Claire Lowdon transports herself back to the teenage turmoil of Martin Amis’s debut novel, fifty years on. -
In A Green Shade
This week, Helen Bynum enjoins us to consider the secret lives of plants; and Jacqueline Banerjee on love and marriage in the world of George Eliot. -
American Paranoia
Geoffrey Wheatcroft considers how the First World War triggered a wave of xenophobia and a Red Scare. -
The Isle is Full of Noises
Flora Willson explores the struggle of four women composers to have their work heard, and Biancamaria Fontana on the late David Graeber’s survey of Madagascan pirate kingdoms. -
Turning Leaves
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Give Them Back!
Mark Mazower asks: did the Ottomans preserve the Parthenon and Elgin wreck it? -
Coming to Fruition
This week, Margaret Drabble and Joe Swift talk about the relationship between literature and gardening; and a new short-story collection from Margaret Atwood. -
Good Chaps
Ferdinand Mount considers how the English upper classes appropriated fair play from the lower orders. -
A Treasure on Your Shelf, Waiting
This week we hear about the pursuit of the perfect library, and celebrate the brilliance of crime writer Josephine Tey.