Audio

Listen to the fortnightly London Review Podcasts.

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  23 May 2013 Diane Williams: Diane Williams reads ‘Perform Small Tasks’ and ‘Removal Men’.
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  2 May 2013 Robin Robertson: Robin Robertson reads his versions of Nonnus and a selection of other poems.
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  18 April 2013 Mark Ford: Mark Ford reads a selection of poems he’s published in the LRB.
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  11 April 2013 Nicholas Spice: 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.
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  21 March 2013 David Runciman: David Runciman on the impossibility and persistence of the US political system.
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  18 March 2013 Noam Chomsky: In his 2013 Edward W. Said lecture Noam Chomsky reflects on 65 years of violence in the Middle East.
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  14 March 2013 Adam Phillips: Adam Phillips considers the sadomasochism of childhood and the pleasures and pains of tantrums.
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  14 February 2013 Hilary Mantel: Introduced by Neil MacGregor, Hilary Mantel considers the royal body from Anne Boleyn’s ‘bosom not much raised’ to Kate Middleton’s equally modest endowment.
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  1 February 2013 Shakespeare: Our Contemporary?: Colin Burrow, Michael Dobson, James Shapiro, Emma Smith and Marina Warner discuss the ways we continue to make Shakespeare in our own image.
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  24 January 2013 August Kleinzahler: August Kleinzahler reads and talks about some of the poems he’s published in the LRB.
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  21 December 2012 Alan Bennett: Alan Bennett rides in Mr Murdoch’s car and gets a review from T.S. Eliot.
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  8 November 2012 Anne Carson: Anne Carson reads ‘A Fragment of Ibykos Translated Six Ways’.
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  25 October 2012 Adam Mars-Jones: Adam Mars-Jones imagines J.K. Rowling bringing the manuscript The Casual Vacancy to him for advice.
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  25 October 2012 Colin Burrow: Colin Burrow on the reasons Jane Eyre is called Jane Eyre and Tom Jones is called Tom Jones.
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  11 October 2012 Tom Carver: Tom Carver on the night Kim Philby disappeared from the rue Kantari.
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  27 September 2012 Michael Friedman: Michael Friedman gets arrested and spends the night at Central Booking.
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  13 September 2012 James Meek: James Meek wonders how Britain happened to sell off its electricity.
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  19 July 2012 Andrew O’Hagan: Andrew O’Hagan on the art of terrible writing about sex.
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  5 July 2012 Vladimir Nabokov: Ralph Fiennes reads ‘The University Poem’, which Nabokov wrote in 1926, four years after he left Trinity College, Cambridge.
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  5 July 2012 Marina Warner: Marina Warner watches Damien Hirst’s butterflies hatch.
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  31 May 2012 Judith Butler: Judith Butler asks Who Owns Kafka? in one of last year’s Winter Lectures.
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  23 May 2012 Iain Sinclair: Iain Sinclair meets the last of the Beats, the poet Gary Snyder.
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  2 May 2012 Daljit Nagra: Daljit Nagra reads ‘This Be the Pukka Verse’ and ‘A Ballad for Bopoluchi’.
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  26 April 2012 Jacqueline Rose: Jacqueline Rose celebrates Marilyn Monroe.
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  5 April 2012 John Lanchester: John Lanchester writes about Marx at 193.
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  14 March 2012 Neal Ascherson: Neal Ascherson revisits Europe’s barbaric past.
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  29 February 2012 Charlotte Brontë: Gillian Anderson reads ‘Ingratitude’, a lost fable by Charlotte Brontë.
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  15 February 2012 Denise Riley: Denise Riley reads ‘A Part Song’, her first poem in the LRB for many years.
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  9 February 2012 Jeremy Harding: Jeremy Harding discusses the politics of migration and the battle at Europe's borders.
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  26 January 2012 Tariq Ali: Tariq Ali visited North Korea twice in the 1960s and met the ‘Great and Beloved Leader’ himself.
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  5 January 2012 Alan Bennett: Alan Bennett considers the banana skin and is mistaken for ‘another Alan’ in his Diary for 2011.
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  19 August 2011 The Wonderfulness of Us: 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.
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  21 April 2010 Jacqueline Rose: Jacqueline Rose speaks about her first readings of Freud and Jung and her encounters with feminism, Sylvia Plath and Israel/Palestine.