The LRB Podcast

Robert Hanks on the pleasures and pains of putting things off. Read Robert Hanks in the LRB: https://lrb.me/hankspod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Julian Barnes on Van Gogh. Read Julian Barnes in the LRB: https://lrb.me/barnespod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on the rise of the Houthis in Yemen. Read Gaith Abdul-Ahad: https://lrb.me/abdulahadyt Sign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Seymour Hersh talks to Christian Lorentzen about his pieces for the LRB, collected in a new book, The Killing of Osama bin Laden. Read Seymour Hersh in the LRB: https://lrb.me/hershpod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hilary Mantel reads her short story, ‘The School of English’. Read Hilary Mantel in the LRB: https://lrb.me/mantelyt Sign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In his 2015 Winter Lecture, Tariq Ali argues that we are living in the twilight period of democracy. Read more Tariq Ali in the LRB: https://lrb.me/tariqalipod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In her 2015 Winter Lecture, Marina Warner shows how higher education in the UK has been betrayed. Read more Marina Warner in the LRB: https://lrb.me/warnerpod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In his 2015 Winter Lecture, Adam Phillips reflects on the ways we hate ourselves. Read more by Adam Phillips in the LRB: https://lrb.me/phillipspod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peter Pomerantsev on images and myths of Maidan. Read more by Peter Pomerantsev in the LRB: https://lrb.me/pomerantsevpod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rosemary Hill on the life and disappearance of Lord Lucan. Read more Rosemary Hill in the LRB: https://lrb.me/hillpod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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://lrb.me/bennettjonespod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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: https://lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alan Bennett read this sermon on private educations before the University, King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, 1 June 2014. Read more Alan Bennett in the LRB: lrb.me/bennettpod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mary Beard reflects on the way women are heard – and have been heard – in public, from Homer’s Odyssey through Margaret Thatcher to internet trolls. Read more Mary Beard in the LRB: lrb.me/beardpod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Andrew O’Hagan spent six months with Julian Assange helping him write his autobiography, though in the event Assange didn’t want the book published. O’Hagan speaks about those six months for the first time. Read more Andrew O'Hagan in the LRB: lrb.me/ohaganpod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James Wood explores the estrangement of voluntary emigration: the puzzling sense of losing the country you leave and failing to find another. Homelessness, in a word. Read more James Wood in the LRB: lrb.me/jameswoodpod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jenny Turner on Penelope Fitzgerald Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adam Shatz on the life and death of Juliano Mer-Khamis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Andrew O’Hagan remembers Norman Mailer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In August, as Australian politicians hung tough on asylum seekers, the Melbourne Writers Festival asked Jeremy Harding how far governments can patrol migration. With grateful acknowledgments to the Alan Missen Foundation and Liberty Victoria. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recognised for her writing on subjects including Sylvia Plath, feminism, Proust, psychoanalysis, Zionism, the Middle East conflict and Jewish identity, Rose discusses her work with Justin Clemens, co-editor (wtih Ben Naparstek) of the Jacqueline Rose Reader. Read Jacqueline Rose in the LRB: https://lrb.me/jrosepod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Testament of Mary, in which he re-imagines the life of Christ through the eyes of the holiest of saints. With Michael McGirr. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jacqueline Rose draws parallels between revolutionary 19th-century socialist Rosa Luxemburg and Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. She explains how each of these remarkable women straddled the divide between their political and inner lives. Chaired by Hilary Harper. Recorded at the Melbourne Writers Festival, 2013. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael Wood reconsiders ‘Cleopatra’ – its expense, its quarrelling stars, its length, its success – on the release of a restored print for the film’s fiftieth anniversary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 signed Greenlaw’s band), the top ten and a platinum record. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Bloomsbury, where Davison’s memorial service was held. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hilton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 about music in general. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Runciman discusses the impossibility and persistence of the US political system in the LRB Winter Lecture delivered at the British Museum in 2013. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 information.

Adam Phillips considers the sadomasochism of childhood and the pleasures and pains of tantrums. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hilary Mantel considers the royal body from Anne Boleyn’s ‘bosom not much raised’ to Kate Middleton’s equally modest endowment. Introduced by Neil MacGregor, and delivered at the British Museum in 2013. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colin Burrow, Michael Dobson, James Shapiro, Emma Smith and Marina Warner discuss the ways we continue to make (and occasionally unmake) Shakespeare in our own image. Introduced by Neil MacGregor and recorded at the British Museum. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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: https://lrb.me/bennett2012pod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 information.

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/privacy for more information.

Ralph Fiennes reads ‘The University Poem’, which Nabokov wrote in 1926, four years after he left Trinity College, Cambridge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Lanchester delivers his lecture writes about Karl Marx at 193. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Neal Ascherson discusses the competing forces of integration and nationalism throughout the history of modern Europe, and the ways in which they’ve shaped individual and collective identities, and considers the implications of the end of Cold Way on the continent’s social democratic frameworks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 information.

Andrew O’Hagan chaired this discussion between Linda Colley, R.W. Johnson and Tom Devine about national histories and the ways they should, and should not, be taught. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jacqueline Rose speaks about her first readings of Freud and Jung and her encounters with feminism, Sylvia Plath and Israel/Palestine, in this interview with Paul Myerscough recorded in 2011. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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 British Museum, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.