London Review Podcasts
Summary: LRB-published writers read their own work, introduced by the editors of the London Review of Books. Recent podcasts have included Gillian Anderson reading Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Ingratitude’, Alan Bennett reading from his diary, Tariq Ali on his visit to North Korea and Jeremy Harding on migration. There’ll be something new every fortnight.
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Podcasts:
Patrick Cockburn explains why the Syrian war feels close to ending when it isn’t and how YouTube is changing war reporting.
Diane Williams reads ‘Perform Small Tasks’ and ‘Removal Men’.
Robin Robertson reads his versions of Nonnus and a selection of other poems.
Mark Ford reads a selection of poems he’s published in the LRB.
On the centenary of Wagner’s birth, Nicholas Spice asks in his Winter Lecture at the British Museum how his music works on us and what this tells us about music in general.
David Runciman on the impossibility and persistence of the US political system.
In his 2013 Edward W. Said lecture Noam Chomsky reflects on 65 years of violence in the Middle East.
Adam Phillips considers the sadomasochism of childhood and the pleasures and pains of tantrums.
Introduced by Neil MacGregor, Hilary Mantel considers the royal body from Anne Boleyn’s ‘bosom not much raised’ to Kate Middleton’s equally modest endowment.
Colin Burrow, Michael Dobson, James Shapiro, Emma Smith and Marina Warner discuss the ways we continue to make Shakespeare in our own image.
August Kleinzahler reads and talks about some of the poems he’s published in the LRB.
Alan Bennett rides in Mr Murdoch’s car and gets a review from T.S. Eliot.
Anne Carson reads ‘A Fragment of Ibykos Translated Six Ways’.
Colin Burrow on the reasons Jane Eyre is called Jane Eyre and Tom Jones is called Tom Jones.
Adam Mars-Jones imagines J.K. Rowling bringing the manuscript The Casual Vacancy to him for advice.
