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The TLS Podcast episodes

June 22, 2016 Fiction and the refugee crisis
Books, culture and more from the TLS podcast – this week featuring: responses to the refugee crisis, political and literary; the new Tate in London; Turkey's secular spaces; and a poem by Stephen Knight.
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34 min
June 06, 2016 Svetlana Alexievich and the Russian-Soviet soul
Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, gives the Elliott Lecture at St Antony's College Oxford, taking as her subject "The history of the Russian-Soviet soul".
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1 hr 2 min
June 01, 2016 Tessa Hadley and Sarah Hall in conversation
Michael Caines talks to two authors who have been shortlisted for the 2016 South Bank Sky Arts Awards.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk
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25 min
May 27, 2016 Utopia – Then and Now (live from Kings Place)
Matthew Beaumont, Michael Caines, Chloe Houston and Nicole Pohl discuss Thomas More's Utopia, first published 500 years ago in 1516, and utopianism in its many and varied forms.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk
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1 hr 3 min
May 17, 2016 Gerard Manley Hopkins
Alan Jenkins introduces and reads a selection of the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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16 min
May 16, 2016 Casanova's escape
Adrian Tahourdin and Mika Ross-Southall dip their toes in Casanova's celebrated memoirs.Find out more: www.the-tis.co.uk
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13 min
May 13, 2016 Thomas De Quincey
Catharine Morris and Michael Caines take a look at the English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.Find out more at the-tis.co.uk
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16 min
April 28, 2016 Robert Browning's Poetic Characters
Sam Graydon looks at the poet Robert Browning, exploring the major role he played in the development of the dramatic monologue, with a selection of readings from his works.
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16 min
April 22, 2016 Shakespeare and Cervantes, 400 years on
To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare and Cervantes, Mika Ross-Southall introduces a talk on these two giants of world literature.
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53 min
April 20, 2016 Utopia at 500
Michael Caines and Lucy Dallas take a tour of Thomas More's imaginary commonwealth, where private property has been abolished and reason rules all.
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14 min