The LRB Podcast
Episodes
Owen Bennett-Jones: Go-Betweens in Northern Ireland
22 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Owen Bennett-Jones on the messengers that paved the way for the Northern Ireland peace process. Read more by Owen Bennett-Jones in the LRB: https://lr...
Alan Bennett: What I did in 2014
08 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Bennett on what he did in 2014. Read more Alan Bennett in the LRB: https://lrb.me/bennettpod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast ...
James Meek: Shamed in Afghanistan
18 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
James Meek on the British army’s eight years in Afghanistan. Read more James Meek in the LRB: https://lrb.me/meekpod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: ...
T.J. Clark: Face to Face with Rembrandt
04 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
T.J. Clark comes face to face with Rembrandt. Read more T.J. Clark in the LRB: lrb.me/tjclarkpod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast Hosted o...
Alan Bennett: On Private Education
18 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Bennett read this sermon on private educations before the University, King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, 1 June 2014. Read more Alan Bennett in ...
Mary Beard: The Public Voice of Women
20 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Beard reflects on the way women are heard – and have been heard – in public, from Homer’s Odyssey through Margaret Thatcher to internet tro...
Andrew O'Hagan: Julian Assange
06 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew O’Hagan spent six months with Julian Assange helping him write his autobiography, though in the event Assange didn’t want the book publishe...
James Wood: On Not Going Home
20 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
James Wood explores the estrangement of voluntary emigration: the puzzling sense of losing the country you leave and failing to find another. Homeless...
Alan Bennett: What I did in 2013
09 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Bennett reluctantly pays some overdue bills. Read more Alan Bennett in the LRB: lrb.me/bennettpod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast H...
Penelope Fitzgerald
19 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny Turner on Penelope Fitzgerald Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A Death in Jenin
21 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Shatz on the life and death of Juliano Mer-Khamis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mailer’s Last Punch
07 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew O’Hagan remembers Norman Mailer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Australia’s Boat-People
25 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In August, as Australian politicians hung tough on asylum seekers, the Melbourne Writers Festival asked Jeremy Harding how far governments can patrol ...
In Conversation: Jacqueline Rose on Sylvia Plath, feminism, Proust, psychoanalysis, Zionism and more
31 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Recognised for her writing on subjects including Sylvia Plath, feminism, Proust, psychoanalysis, Zionism, the Middle East conflict and Jewish identity...
Colm Tóibín: In Conversation
30 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Author, essayist and poet Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland’s greatest living writers. He discusses his life and work, including his recent book The T...
Jacqueline Rose: Rosa Luxemburg and Marilyn Monroe
30 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jacqueline Rose draws parallels between revolutionary 19th-century socialist Rosa Luxemburg and Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. She explains how each o...
At the Movies
07 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Wood reconsiders ‘Cleopatra’ – its expense, its quarrelling stars, its length, its success – on the release of a restored print for th...
‘Bedsit Disco Queen’
17 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Lavinia Greenlaw tells the story of singer Tracey Thorn’s rise from bedroom rehearsals and an ad in the NME to indie label Cherry Red (who also sign...
Emily Davison, Modern Martyr
03 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Marina Warner explores Emily Davison’s legacy as the suffragettes’ first martyr in a talk given at the inaugural Wilding Festival at St George’s...
Andrew O'Hagan: The Paris Hilton Heist
19 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew O’Hagan tells the story of Alexis Neiers and the rest of the ‘Bling Ring’ who stole from Paris Hilton in order to be more like Paris Hilt...
Is Wagner bad for us?
10 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
On the centenary of Wagner’s birth, Nicholas Spice asks in his Winter Lecture at the British Museum how his music works on us and what this tells us...
David Runciman: American Democracy
21 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
David Runciman discusses the impossibility and persistence of the US political system in the LRB Winter Lecture delivered at the British Museum in 201...
Noam Chomsky: 65 Years in the Middle East
18 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In his 2013 Edward W. Said lecture Noam Chomsky reflects on 65 years of violence in the Middle East. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...
Adam Phillips: On Tantrums
07 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Phillips considers the sadomasochism of childhood and the pleasures and pains of tantrums. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...
Hilary Mantel: Royal Bodies
21 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Hilary Mantel considers the royal body from Anne Boleyn’s ‘bosom not much raised’ to Kate Middleton’s equally modest endowment. Introduced by ...
Shakespeare: Our Contemporary? With Colin Burrow, Michael Dobson, James Shapiro, Emma Smith and Marina Warner
01 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Burrow, Michael Dobson, James Shapiro, Emma Smith and Marina Warner discuss the ways we continue to make (and occasionally unmake) Shakespeare i...
Alan Bennett: Diary for 2012
03 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Bennett rides in Mr Murdoch’s car and gets a review from T.S. Eliot, in these extracts from his 2012 diary. Read the full diary in the LRB: htt...
Andrew O'Hagan: ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
18 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew O’Hagan reads 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and considers the art of terrible writing about sex. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...
Ahdaf Souief: Mina’s Banner and the Egyptian Revolution
14 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In the 2012 Edward Said Lecture, Ahdaf Soueif tells the story of ‘Mina’s Banner’ and the Egyptian revolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...
Ralph Fiennes reads ‘The University Poem’ by Nabokov
06 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Ralph Fiennes reads ‘The University Poem’, which Nabokov wrote in 1926, four years after he left Trinity College, Cambridge. Hosted on Acast. See ...
John Lanchester: Marx at 193
04 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
John Lanchester delivers his lecture writes about Karl Marx at 193. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Neal Ascherson: The History and Future of Europe
22 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Neal Ascherson discusses the competing forces of integration and nationalism throughout the history of modern Europe, and the ways in which they’ve ...
Alan Bennett: From his 2011 diary
05 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Bennett considers the banana skin and is mistaken for ‘another Alan’ in his Diary for 2011. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...
The Wonderfulness of Us
18 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew O’Hagan chaired this discussion between Linda Colley, R.W. Johnson and Tom Devine about national histories and the ways they should, and shou...
Jacqueline Rose: Freud, Jung and Sylvia Plath
06 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Jacqueline Rose speaks about her first readings of Freud and Jung and her encounters with feminism, Sylvia Plath and Israel/Palestine, in this intervi...
Judith Butler: Who Owns Kafka?
03 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Judith Butler asks ‘Who Owns Kafka?’ in one of the LRB’s 2011 Winter Lectures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
T.J. Clark: Picasso’s Guernica Revisited
14 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
T.J. Clark shows how the painting of Guernica in May and June 1937 changed the way Picasso imagined space, in this 2011 LRB Winter Lecture at the Brit...