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The LRB Podcast

The LRB Podcast brings you weekly conversations from Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas. Hosted by Thomas Jones and Malin Hay, with guest episodes from the LRB's US editor Adam Shatz, Meeh... Read more

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Andrew O'Hagan: Julian Assange

Andrew O'Hagan: Julian Assange

Andrew O’Hagan spent six months with Julian Assange helping him write his autobiography, though in the event Assange did... Read more

6 Mar 2014

1hr 2mins

Ranked #2

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Colm Tóibín: In Conversation

Colm Tóibín: In Conversation

Author, essayist and poet Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland’s greatest living writers. He discusses his life and work, inclu... Read more

30 Aug 2013

1hr 1min

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Mary Beard: From Medusa to Merkel

Mary Beard: From Medusa to Merkel

Mary Beard delivers her lecture ‘Women in Power’ at the British Museum.Read Mary Beard in the LRB: https://lrb.me/beardp... Read more

16 Mar 2017

1hr 13mins

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The View from Salvador

The View from Salvador

Forrest Hylton talks to Thomas Jones about what’s happening in Brazil: the oxygen shortage in Manaus, Bolsonaro’s disast... Read more

9 Feb 2021

45mins

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Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Fitzgerald

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19 Dec 2013

12mins

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Julian Barnes: Selfie with ‘Sunflowers’

Julian Barnes: Selfie with ‘Sunflowers’

Julian Barnes on Van Gogh.Read Julian Barnes in the LRB: https://lrb.me/barnespodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://... Read more

29 Jul 2015

22mins

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Ferdinand Mount: Staffing the Raj

Ferdinand Mount: Staffing the Raj

Ferdinand Mount on how India was governed strictly for the benefit of Britain.Read more by Ferdinand Mount in the LRB: l... Read more

6 Sep 2017

36mins

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In Conversation: On John Berger

In Conversation: On John Berger

To mark John Berger’s 90th birthday, the London Review Bookshop and Verso Books organised a discussion of his work with ... Read more

4 Jan 2017

1hr 18mins

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Anne Enright: The Genesis of Blame

Anne Enright: The Genesis of Blame

Anne Enright delivers her Winter Lecture on the corruptions of the Adam and Eve story in her LRB Winter Lecture, deliver... Read more

28 Feb 2018

36mins

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In Conversation: Jacqueline Rose on Sylvia Plath, feminism, Proust, psychoanalysis, Zionism and more

In Conversation: Jacqueline Rose on Sylvia Plath, feminism, Proust, psychoanalysis, Zionism and more

Recognised for her writing on subjects including Sylvia Plath, feminism, Proust, psychoanalysis, Zionism, the Middle Eas... Read more

31 Aug 2013

55mins

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Mary Beard: The Public Voice of Women

Mary Beard: The Public Voice of Women

Mary Beard reflects on the way women are heard – and have been heard – in public, from Homer’s Odyssey through Margaret ... Read more

20 Mar 2014

1hr 30mins

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In Conversation: Jacqueline Rose on Rosa Luxemburg and Marilyn Monroe

In Conversation: Jacqueline Rose on Rosa Luxemburg and Marilyn Monroe

Jacqueline Rose draws parallels between revolutionary 19th-century socialist Rosa Luxemburg and Hollywood icon Marilyn M... Read more

30 Aug 2013

55mins

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At the Movies

At the Movies

Michael Wood reconsiders ‘Cleopatra’ – its expense, its quarrelling stars, its length, its success – on the release of a... Read more

7 Aug 2013

8mins

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The LRB at 40: Katrina Forrester and William Davies on the crisis of liberalism

The LRB at 40: Katrina Forrester and William Davies on the crisis of liberalism

As part of our series of events marking the LRB's 40th anniversary, Katrina Forrester and William Davies discuss politic... Read more

25 Oct 2019

1hr 6mins

Ranked #15

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In Conversation: Long-Form Essays in the Digital Age

In Conversation: Long-Form Essays in the Digital Age

Mary-Kay Wilmers, Andrew O’Hagan and Ben Eastham talk to Sarah Howe about ‘Long-Form Essays in the Digital Age’.Sign up ... Read more

11 Aug 2016

46mins

Ranked #16

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The LRB at 40: Nell Dunn, Tessa Hadley and Joanna Biggs on women in fiction

The LRB at 40: Nell Dunn, Tessa Hadley and Joanna Biggs on women in fiction

As part of a series of events marking the LRB's 40th anniversary, Nell Dunn and Tessa Hadley talk to Joanna Biggs, one o... Read more

5 Nov 2019

53mins

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