Freedom, Books, Flowers & The Moon

On the 10th anniversary of her blog, A Don's Life, The TLS' Classics Editor Mary Beard joins Rozalind Dineen to discuss its success. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michael Caines and Catharine Morris celebrate the bicentenary of Jane Austen's magnificent novel and its quixotic heroine. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michael Caines reads a short story about a man and a woman taking tea, watching the surfers at Morecambe Bay – and falling out over art. For more information, head to www.the-tls.co.uk  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A selection of poems by Aphra Behn, John Milton, Alexander Pope and the Earl of Rochester. Read by Michael Caines, Mika Ross-Southall and Alan Jenkins.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Donne was the greatest English dramatic poet who never wrote a play. Here, Alan Jenkins reads a selection of his works. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Vertigo special: Toby Lichtig of The TLS introduces David Collard who compares Alfred Hitchcock's film interpretation to the original novel. The film was recently voted 'the best of all time' by 846 critics, programmers, academics and distributors. Find out more: www.the-tls.com  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michael Caines looks back to Douglas Oliver's long poem The Infant and the Pearl, first published in 1985 – a poetic vision of the contemporary political scene, among other things, cast in the mould of a medieval dream poem. Find out more: www.the-tls.com  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We discuss a poem by J.H. Prynne called To Pollen, from 2006, which conducts its own examination of the uses and misuses of images and stories of suffering. Read by Robert Potts. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“August for the people and their favourite islands”, said W.H. Auden in 1935, with the Isle of Wight in mind. Now people’s favourite islands are more likely to be Majorca or Mykonos, but the lure of the seaside remains. Alan Jenkins reads a selection of holiday poems from the past eighty years. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Horspool and Lucy Dallas take an in-depth look at the world of cycling literature. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Michael Caines and Mika Ross-Southall look at how tennis has inspired writers over the centuries. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Mika Ross-Southall and Michael Caines consider Shakespeare's collaborator John Fletcher – a major English dramatist whose work, paradoxically, is largely neglected today.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Michael Caines, Natalie Ferris and Mika Ross-Southall explore the experimental work of Christine Brooke-Rose.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Adrian Tahourdin goes to Waterloo. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Michael Caines and Roz Dineen celebrate a selection of Byron's Letters and Journals. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

200 years since his birth, we discuss the life and work of Anthony Trollope. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

100 years since its publication, Hermione Lee discusses The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf. In discussion with Thea Lenarduzzi from the TLS. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ruth Scurr talks about her unconventional approach to writing a biography of John Aubrey, the seventeenth-century biographer most famous for Brief Lives. In discussion with Mika Ross-Southall from the TLS. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michael Caines reads a selection of verses by the seventeenth-century poet Robert Herrick, as well as a remarkable and little-known elegy by the diarist John Evelyn. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alan Jenkins reads a selection of Ariel poems by, among others, Thomas Hardy, Walter de la Mare and T. S. Eliot, from Faber's Christmas pamphlet series Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.