London Review Podcasts

Alan Bennett puts on a new play and finds himself on someone’s arm, in his 2018 diary.Read more by Alan Bennett in the LRB: https://lrb.me/bennettpodSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rosemary Hill explores frock consciousness in life and literature in her LRB Winter Lecture, delivered at the British Museum.Read more by Rosemary Hill in the LRB: https://lrb.me/hillpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Linda Colley argues that the prospect of Brexit makes history more important than ever in her LRB Winter Lecture, delivered at the British Museum.Read more by Linda Colley in the LRB: https://lrb.me/colleypodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Anne Enright delivers her Winter Lecture on the corruptions of the Adam and Eve story in her LRB Winter Lecture, delivered at the British Museum.Read more by Anne Enright in the LRB: https://lrb.me/enrightpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Toby Jones reads John Lanchester’s ghost story.Read more from John Lanchester in the LRB: https://lrb.me/lanchesterpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alan Bennett finds his métier at last in 2017.Read more by Alan Bennett in the LRB: https://lrb.me/bennettpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the latest instalment of the LRB podcast, recorded in Seoul, Richard Lloyd Parry talks to the Korean-American novelist Krys Lee about Christianity, plastic surgery and mutual incomprehension in the Korean borderlands.Read more by Richard Lloyd Parry in the LRB; https://lrb.me/lloydparrypodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jane Campbell reads a story about dispossession in paradise.Sign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lucy Prebble describes meeting Harvey Weinstein.Sign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the second part of their conversation, Olivier Roy and Adam Shatz discuss the deculturation of Islam, and why it has led to the radicalisation of so many second-generation immigrants and converts.Read more by Adam Shatz in the LRB: lrb.me/shatzpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the first of two podcasts, Olivier Roy tells Adam Shatz about his experiences with the Gauche prolétarienne in the 1960s and his early travels in Afghanistan.Read more by Adam Shatz in the LRB: lrb.me/shatzpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Carmen Callil, writer, editor and founder of Virago, tells Rosemary Hill how she made her way in 1960s London.Read more by Rosemary Hill in the LRB: lrb.me/hillpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ferdinand Mount on how India was governed strictly for the benefit of Britain.Read more by Ferdinand Mount in the LRB: lrb.me/mountpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Writer and actor Wallace Shawn talks to Adam Shatz about ‘the thin line between entertainment and cruelty’ in the age of Trump.Read more by Adam Shatz in the LRB: https://lrb.me/shatzpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

William Davies talks to Tom Crewe about politics in the new media age.Read more by William Davies in the LRB: https://lrb.me/daviespodRead more by Tom Crewe in the LRB: https://lrb.me/crewepodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Elaine Mokhtefi tells Jeremy Harding about her time working in Algeria in the 1960s when she met Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

‘Bohemia was never a safe country for women. If they didn’t all die of consumption in a garret, many of them might as well have done’ – Rosemary Hill on the letters of Ida John.Read more by Rosemary Hill in the LRB: lrb.me/hillpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

‘It’s like the drunken lout at a party who can’t get anyone to like him.’ Andrew O’Hagan reads the Daily Mail.Read more by Andrew O'Hagan in the LRB: lrb.me/ohaganpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tom Crewe talks to Lorna Finlayson about Jeremy Corbyn and Labour’s prospects in the general election and beyond.Read more by Tom Crewe in the LRB: lrb.me/crewepodRead more by Lorna Finlayson in the LRB: https://lrb.me/finlaysonpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

‘Once you start seeing everyday behaviour as having the potential to draw people into terrorism, you’re inside the problem’ – Karma Nabulsi on the British government’s Prevent programme.Read more by Karma Nabulsi in the LRB: https://lrb.me/nabulsipodSign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.