Podcasts

Susan Pedersen talks to Joanna Biggs about Shelagh Delaney and her landmark 1958 play, A Taste of Honey.

John Lanchester talks to Thomas Jones about the author of the Maigret stories, whose output was so prodigious that even he didn't know how many books he wrote.

Sonia Gandhi and Rupert Beale, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, talk to Thomas Jones about the ways Covid-19 can affect the nervous system, the steps required to reopen the NHS after lockdown,...

David and Helen are joined by Anand Menon and Catherine Barnard to assess the impact of the Covid crisis on the fate of Brexit and its implications for what might happen later this year.

David and Helen talk with the writer and political commentator Fintan O’Toole about how British politics can and should deal with its imperial past in the age of Brexit. From battles over statues...

David Runciman and Helen Thompson talk to historian Sarah Churchwell about the origins of the idea of American fascism. Does it follow a European model or is it something exceptional? What role...

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

Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the work of Seamus Heaney

Mark Ford, Seamus Perry and Joanna Biggs consider the balance of biography and mythology in Plath’s work, situating her as a transatlantic, expressionist poet of the Cold War.

Writer Fred D'Aguiar and historians David Olusoga and Catherine Fletcher joined Nandini Das, director of TIDE, to explore the challenge of using fiction to recover the lost voices in history.

Nancy Fraser talks to Ann Pettifor about her book, Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory (Polity), co-authored with Rahel Jaeggi, which seeks to expand our understanding of capitalism.

In this event recorded in 2016, Danny Dorling talks about his book, A Better Politics: How Government Can Make Us Happier with Rupa Huq, Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton, and Richard Wilkinson,...