The TLS Podcast

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A weekly podcast on books and culture brought to you by the writers and editors of the Times Literary Supplement.

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October 08, 2020 Milk as Metaphor
From a carvery lunch in Howards End to emotional Eurocrats. Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Norma Clarke to discuss the role in literary creation of food and its increasingly fraught means of production, and Russell Williams reports on the bookshops of Paris during lockdown and reviews the new novel by a totemic figure in French literature, Jean-Philippe Toussaint.

The Literature of Food: An introduction from 1830 to present by Nicola Humble
Farm to Form: Modernist literature and ecologies of food in the British Empire by Jessica Martell
Read My Plate: The literature of food by Deborah R. Geis
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food, edited by J. Michelle Coghlan
Les Émotions by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
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50min
October 01, 2020 Seduction and Uprisings
From Ovid to the "Black Spartacus". Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the TLS's classics editor Mary Beard to pick apart the story of "seduction", ancient and modern, the poet Fiona Benson reads her latest work, and the TLS's history editor David Horspool explores two accounts of America's domestic slave trade and a new biography of Toussaint Louverture.

Strange Antics: A history of seduction by Clement Knox
Williams’ Gang: A notorious slave trader and his cargo of Black convicts by Jeff Forret
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A true story of slavery and restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel
Black Spartacus: The epic life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
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49min
September 24, 2020 Murder at the Opera
From Poirot on the River Nile to Verdi's take on the infamous Scottish play. Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas talk to writer Laura Thompson about the work of Agatha Christie and how she managed to move with the times, and Professor Larry Wolff joins us from Florence to discuss the tentative return of live opera in Italy with Verdi's Macbeth at the Parma Verdi Festival.
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49min
September 16, 2020 Books! Books! Books!
Toby Lichtig talks us through this year's Booker shortlisted novels, plus a couple of others, and Lucy Dallas reports on the French scene (where real life and fiction blur...); finally, we explore the situation in Israel and Palestine from three rather different perspectives.

An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defence Forces made a nation by Haim Bresheeth-Zabner
The Conflict over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine campus debate by Kenneth S. Stern
The new peace? – Israel’s unexpected ray of light by Ari Shavit – www.the-TLS.co.uk
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38min
September 09, 2020 Sex and the City of Ladies
In 1405, Christine de Pisan took up the pen in defense of her maligned sex, imagining a 'City of Ladies' in which the most virtuous female leaders of history might be preserved from the distortions of misogyny. Six hundred years later, with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great as her guides, the novelist and historian Lisa Hilton revisits the City to shake the foundations of the way we write about power
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25min
August 26, 2020 The TLS, rewind #4
Throughout August, we are revisiting our books roundups from previous years, and today we’re returning to last year’s suggestions. In 2019, our contributor Diana Darke said in the paper: "A lot of things need saving this summer – tangible things like bees, Notre-Dame, water … and intangible things like democracy, humanitarian ideals, community". Among the many subjects under discussion here are Oulipo, impeachment, and climate change.

We’ll be back with new weekly episodes from September 10th. Until then, head to the website – the-tls.co.uk – to keep up with the weekly magazine.
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46min
August 19, 2020 The TLS, rewind #3
Throughout August, we are revisiting our books roundups from previous years, to give you a chance to catch up on books you might have missed. Today we are sauntering back to the summer of 2018, and an episode in which we learnt which books our contributors – including Bernardine Evaristo, Claire Lowdon and Carlo Rovelli – were looking forward to. We’ll be back with new weekly episodes from September 10th. Until then, head to the website – the-tls.co.uk – to keep up with the weekly magazine.
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37min
August 12, 2020 The TLS, rewind #2
Throughout August, we are revisiting books roundups from previous years, to give you a chance once again to hear recommendations from our writers and editors, on subjects like Marcel Proust’s letters, tech-ensnared science fiction and Euripides. In this episode, from 2017, there is also an interview with that year’s Man Booker International Prize Winner, David Grossman, and his translator Jessica Cohen. We’ll be back with new weekly episodes from September 10th. Until then, head to the website – the-tls.co.uk – to keep up with the weekly magazine.
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58min
August 05, 2020 The TLS, rewind #1
Throughout August, we are revisiting books roundups from previous years, to give you a chance to catch up on all that good stuff. Today we’re skipping back to 2016’s books of the year recommendations. We’ll be back with new weekly episodes from September 10th. Until then, head to the website – the-tls.co.uk – to keep up with the weekly magazine.
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39min
July 29, 2020 Climate change, from 'doomism' to optimism
Gabrielle Walker talks us through three unhelpful attitudes to global warming, as exemplified in the Michael Moore-produced film Planet of the Humans; Sudhir Hazareesingh discusses the complex relationship between charisma and celebrity in the age of Revolution (spoiler: it helps to have a horse)

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Men on Horseback by David Bell
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44min

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