The TLS Podcast

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The TLS Podcast episodes

March 07, 2023 Turning Leaves
In our first instalment, we talk to novelist Dame Margaret Drabble and her son, gardener and TV presenter Joe Swift. Their wide-ranging conversation includes a disagreement over pelargoniums, Joe’s childhood insistence on playing football in his mother’s cottage garden, the joys of irregular hedges and fashions in fiction and foliage alike.
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45 min
March 05, 2023 Give Them Back!
Mark Mazower asks: did the Ottomans preserve the Parthenon and Elgin wreck it?

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/who-saved-the-parthenon-william-st-clair-book-review-mark-mazower/
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22 min
March 02, 2023 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.

‘Turning Leaves’, a new podcast from the TLS team
‘Old Babes in the Wood’ by Margaret Atwood

Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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50 min
February 27, 2023 Good Chaps
Ferdinand Mount considers how the English upper classes appropriated fair play from the lower orders.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/an-english-tradition-jonathan-duke-evans-book-review-ferdinand-mount/

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27 min
February 23, 2023 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.

Irina Dumitrescu on the bibliophile’s life
‘The Franchise Affair’, ‘To Love and Be Wise’ and ‘The Daughter of Time’ by Josephine Tey

Produced by Charlotte

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53 min
February 19, 2023 Into The Woods
Peter Godfrey-Smith on two books about living like a deer and learning from the birds.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/deer-man-geoffroy-delorme-the-parrot-in-the-mirror-antone-martinho-truswell-book-review-peter-godfrey-smith/

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20 min
February 16, 2023 Dogs Days in the Writer’s Life
This week, we examine the highs and very many lows of the writing life. Tom Seymour Evans explores a disquieting biography of crime writer James Ellroy, and Stephen Marche shines a light into the abyss of literary failure in his new book.

‘Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy’ by Steven Powell
‘On Writing and Failure’ by Stephen Marche

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53 min
February 12, 2023 A Town Called Sue
In an extract from Lawcraft, published by TLS Books last month, Geoffrey Robertson explains how Russian oligarchs use British courts to close down investigative journalism.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/lawfare-geoffrey-robertson-extract-russia-free-speech/

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32 min
February 09, 2023 State Secrets and Private Passions
This week, Richard Norton-Taylor braves the terrifying world of cyberattacks and their brutal cost; and Lucasta Miller on an intriguing collection of 19th-century commonplace books.

'Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware’ by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud
‘Striking Back: The End of Peace in Cyberspace - and How to Restore It’ by Lucas Kello
The work of scholar and collector William St Clair

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50 min
February 05, 2023 Big Tech Is Reading Your Mind
N. J. Enfield considers how software engineers became social engineers in our democracies.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/freedom-to-think-susie-alegre-the-digital-republic-jamie-susskind-book-review-n-j-enfield/

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16 min