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The TLS

A weekly podcast on books and culture from the TLS.


Editors and writers join Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark to talk through the week’s issue.


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  • Thursday · 35 min

    Murder Most Foul

    This week, Frances Wilson plunges into two biographies of the self-mythologising mystery man Edgar Allan Poe; and Will Eaves joins us to read his poem 'The Cat'.

  • October 22 · 43 min

    The Wind/Yikes Dichotomy

    This week, Tristram Fane Saunders praises the form-busting brilliance of new Nobel Laureate Anne Carson; and Lily Herd on shooting stars, shipwrecks and hubris through the ages.

  • October 15 · 52 min

    Cabbages and kings

    This week, David E Cooper on a mammoth history of the garden; and Larry Wolff takes in Macbeth at the Met.

  • October 8 · 47 min

    Costume Dramas

    This week, Sophie Oliver on Rebecca West's struggle with her love of clothing; and Robert Poole introduces us to a dashing 19th-century radical.

  • October 1 · 1 hr 3 min

    Outsiders

    This week, Patrick McGuinness delves into the moving and illuminating notebooks kept by Albert Camus; and Elizabeth Lowry on the untold lives of novelist Anita Brookner.

  • September 24 · 53 min

    The Cat's Whiskers

    This week, Toby Lichtig on the six Booker hopefuls; and Kathryn Hughes joins us in an exploration of feline mysteries.

  • September 17 · 35 min

    Manderley Revisited

    This week, Rohan Maitzen on Rose Tremain's reimagining of Rebecca, and a new way of seeing the terrifying Mrs Danvers; and Jamie McKendrick reads his poem, 'The Importance of Time'.

  • September 10 · 47 min

    Who's in Charge

    This week, Anchit Sathi asks what an "author" is in the age of AI; and Keggie Carew on the world of symbiotic slime and friendly fungi.

  • September 3 · 51 min

    Noses to the grindstone!

    This week, Mary Beard gives us the inside track on what it's like to be a Booker Prize judge; and Russell Williams guides us through the highlights of a new season in French publishing.

  • August 27 · 28 min

    Lines of beauty

    This week, we look back at the poets who've shared their work with us this year.

  • August 20 · 45 min

    Chill out!

    This week, we look back at some of the year's highlights, and illuminating conversations about rest, relaxation and reading with Emily Herring and Christy Edwall.

  • August 13 · 1 hr 2 min

    Summer Games

    This week, we look back at some of the year's highlights, and illuminating conversations with Joanna Kavenna and Nick Enfield.

  • August 6 · 32 min

    A wine-dark Western?

    This week, A. E. Stallings takes stock of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, a “thrilling combination of seemingly opposite tendencies”; and Sam Riviere reads us a new poem

  • August 2 · 27 min

    July Highlights

    Before we turn the page on July, here's a look back at some of the conversations from this month's episodes on The TLS Podcast.

  • July 30 · 47 min

    Moving Pictures

    This week, we meditate on childhood memories with TLS Ackerley Prize-winner Geoff Dyer; and Ben Street on the tricky business of artists at the cinema.

  • July 23 · 48 min

    Earthing Emily

    This week, Claire Harman explores the self-possession and vigour of the youngest of the Brontë clan; and Lily Herd on musical brothers at war in a new play.

  • July 16 · 46 min

    The Art of Chaos

    This week, Carrie Cracknell joins us to talk about the delights and challenges of directing Tom Stoppard's Arcadia; and Hirsh Sawhney on the empathetic brilliance of Sigrid Nunez.

  • July 9 · 45 min

    Economies of Scale

    This week, Scarlett Baron puzzles over an attempt to cut Joyce down to size; and Ian Sansom on the sobering realities of balancing the books if you want to be an artist.

  • July 2 · 44 min

    Beach bonanza!

    This week, Toby Lichtig joins us to mull over what TLS writers are reading this summer; and Hannah Lowe reads a new poem with a botanical theme.

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