Podcasts

Emily Wilson talks to Thomas Jones about three new translations of the Oresteia. They discuss what the texts of the tragedies may tell us about the state of democracy in fifth-century Athens, the...

Jenny Turner talks to Joanna Biggs about the history of the Women’s Liberation Movement, the loneliness of feminist work, and the seemingly unavoidable question: How do you think your life compares...

Deborah Friedell talks to Thomas Jones about the origins, and origin myths, of the National Rifle Association, how it spends its money, and why it's wary of winning.

David and the team talk Brexit and ask whether Boris Johnson has a good way out of the current negotiations with the EU over a trade deal.

David Runciman talks to Helen Thompson and Gary Gerstle about the historical precedents for US presidents losing office after a single term. Can Trump use the powers of incumbency to prevent it? ...

David Runciman and Helen Thompson talk to the philosopher Michael Sandel about the damage that the idea of rewarding people on merit has done to education, democracy and public life. Why is it wrong...

In the latest episode in their series of Close Readings, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Robert Frost, the great American poet of fences and dark woods.

In the first episode in a new series of Close Readings, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford take on Gerard Manley Hopkins: Victorian literature’s only anti-modern proto-modernist queer-ecologist Jesuit priest.

In the concluding episode of their acclaimed series, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford confront Robert Lowell.

In For a Left Populism, leading political thinker Chantal Mouffe proposes a new way to define left populism today. She discusses it here with Jon Trickett, Labour MP for Hemsworth.

Maureen N. McLane reads from and discuss her work with poet and critic Sarah Howe, on the occasion of the publication of her first selected poems, What I'm Looking For.

In Lord of all the Dead, Javier Cercas plunges back into his family history, revisiting Ibahernando, his parents' village in southern Spain, to discover the truth about his ancestor Manuel Mena, who died...