The LRB Podcast
17 May 2022
Rupert Beale returns to the podcast to talk to Tom about the current state of SARS-CoV-2 in the UK. They discuss what ‘living with Covid’ means, the chances of future waves and...
Podcasts & Videos
Podcasts
The LRB Podcast
On Olympia
James Romm and Thomas Jones, 27 May 2022
24 May 2022
James Romm talks to Tom about the site of the Ancient Greek games: the various contests in which athletes competed, the punishment for those found cheating, and the colossal statue of Zeus in whose honour...
Talking Politics
Finale
David Runciman and Helen Thompson, 3 March 2022
3 March 2022
David, Helen and Catherine get together for the final episode of Talking Politics, to reflect on podcasting through six extraordinary years of politics, and what it means to be ending at the beginning...
Close Readings
Romantic History: Waterloo to the British Museum
Neil MacGregor and Rosemary Hill, 24 May 2022
26 April 2022
In the final episode in our series looking at the way history was transformed in the Romantic period, Neil MacGregor joins Rosemary Hill to discuss the circulation of artefacts throughout Europe in the...
Videos
Lectures & Events
Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan
Richard Lloyd Parry, 28 June 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 barred...
LRB Films & Interviews
Five Lems
Jonathan Lethem, 27 May 2022
29 April 2022
How many Stanisław Lems were there? Five (at least), according to Jonathan Lethem. This short film, adapted from Lethem’s recent piece for the LRB, takes a voyage into the Lem cosmos.
Bookshop Events & Films
29 October 2021
Hilary Mantel talks to David Runciman and Helen Thompson from our partner podcast, Talking Politics, as part of our series of events on 'The Power Behind the Throne'.
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