LRB Films & Interviews
8 April 2021
In this feature-length documentary, Anthony Wilks traces the connections between the events of Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told, from his teenage years in Germany as Hitler came...
Podcasts & Videos
Podcasts
LRB Conversations
Hydrological Uncertainty
Rosa Lyster and Thomas Jones, 17 May 2021
11 May 2021
Rosa Lyster talks to Thomas Jones about the global water crisis, from the severe droughts in her home city of Cape Town, to the sinking of Mexico City and the damming of the Nile, and the need for all...
Talking Politics
Election Fallout
David Runciman, Helen Thompson and Colin Kidd, 13 May 2021
13 May 2021
David and Helen are joined by the historian Colin Kidd to try to make sense of last week's elections in England, Scotland and Wales.
Close Readings
On Derek Walcott
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford, 17 May 2021
16 March 2021
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of the Saint Lucian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott.
Videos
Lectures & Events
Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan
Richard Lloyd Parry, 17 May 2021
11 March 2020
In his 2020 LRB Winter Lecture, Richard Lloyd Parry considers the paradoxical figure of Akihito, who abdicated in April 2019: a hereditary monarch, the son of the wartime emperor, Hirohito, strictly...
LRB Films & Interviews
Old Ties
Alan Bennett, 8 April 2021
24 December 2019
Alan Bennett examines his wardrobe, in his 2019 Diary.
Bookshop Events & Films
6 May 2021
Rebecca Solnit discusses her new memoir with Mary Beard.
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