London Review Podcasts

Alan Bennett read this sermon on private educations before the University, King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, 1 June 2014.Read more Alan Bennett in the LRB: lrb.me/bennettpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mary Beard reflects on the way women are heard – and have been heard – in public, from Homer’s Odyssey through Margaret Thatcher to internet trolls.Read more Mary Beard in the LRB: lrb.me/beardpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Andrew O’Hagan spent six months with Julian Assange helping him write his autobiography, though in the event Assange didn’t want the book published. O’Hagan speaks about those six months for the first time.Read more 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.

James Wood explores the estrangement of voluntary emigration: the puzzling sense of losing the country you leave and failing to find another. Homelessness, in a word.Read more James Wood in the LRB: lrb.me/jameswoodpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alan Bennett reluctantly pays some overdue bills.Read more Alan Bennett in the LRB: lrb.me/bennettpodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jenny Turner on Penelope Fitzgerald  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Adam Shatz on the life and death of Juliano Mer-Khamis.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Andrew O’Hagan remembers Norman Mailer.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jacqueline Rose on what links Frank Kermode and Nigel Farage.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In August, as Australian politicians hung tough on asylum seekers, the Melbourne Writers Festival asked Jeremy Harding how far governments can patrol migration. With grateful acknowledgments to the Alan Missen Foundation and Liberty Victoria.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Recognised for her writing on subjects including Sylvia Plath, feminism, Proust, psychoanalysis, Zionism, the Middle East conflict and Jewish identity, Rose discusses her work with Justin Clemens, co-editor (wtih Ben Naparstek) of the Jacqueline Rose Reader.Read Jacqueline Rose in the LRB: lrb.me/jrosepodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jacqueline Rose draws parallels between revolutionary 19th-century socialist Rosa Luxemburg and Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. She explains how each of these remarkable women straddled the divide between their political and inner lives. Chaired by Hilary Harper.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Author, essayist and poet Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland’s greatest living writers. He discusses his life and work, including his recent book The Testament of Mary, in which he re-imagines the life of Christ through the eyes of the holiest of saints. With Michael McGirr.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michael Wood reconsiders ‘Cleopatra’ – its expense, its quarrelling stars, its length, its success – on the release of a restored print for the film’s fiftieth anniversary.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lavinia Greenlaw tells the story of singer Tracey Thorn’s rise from bedroom rehearsals and an ad in the NME to indie label Cherry Red (who also signed Greenlaw’s band), the top ten and a platinum record.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Marina Warner explores Emily Davison’s legacy as the suffragettes’ first martyr in a talk given at the inaugural Wilding Festival at St George’s Bloomsbury, where Davison’s memorial service was held.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Runciman on the impossibility and persistence of the US political system.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In his 2013 Edward W. Said lecture Noam Chomsky reflects on 65 years of violence in the Middle East.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alan Bennett considers the banana skin and is mistaken for ‘another Alan’ in his Diary for 2011.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.