Podcasts

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,...

Andrew O’Hagan talks to Thomas Jones about the friendship between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, and the time they spent together in Bournemouth.

Michael Wood talks to Adam Shatz about critical theory, its origins, developments and various diversions, and where it stands today.

David and Helen talk to the historian Dan Snow about the parallels for the current crisis. Is it like past pandemics or is it more like a war? What has it exposed about the weak spots in our...

How does a judgement of the German constitutional court threaten to explode the European project? David Runciman talks to Helen Thompson, Adam Tooze and Shahin Vallee about what the court's decision...

David is joined by Helen Thompson and Chris Brooke to try to get beyond the current crisis and work out where British politics is heading.

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.

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,...

Laleh Khalili talks to Rafeef Ziadah about her new book, Sinews of War and Trade, which explores the vital importance of ports and shipping in defining the new battlegrounds of the 21st century.

Nikita Lalwani talks about her latest novel, You People, with Mary Mount, in a specially recorded conversation to replace their cancelled event.