London Review Podcasts

As part of a series of events marking the LRB's 40th anniversary, Nell Dunn and Tessa Hadley talk to Joanna Biggs, one of the LRB's editors, about fictional representations of women’s everyday lives.Read more in the LRB from:Tessa HadleyNell DunnJoanna Biggs  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As part of our series of events marking the 40th anniversary of the LRB, longtime contributors Rosemary Hill and Iain Sinclair talked to the LRB’s digital editor, Sam Kinchin-Smith, about London, through the lens of pieces they've written for the paper.Read more by Rosemary Hill in the LRB: lrb.me/hillpodRead more by Iain Sincliar in the LRB: lrb.me/sinclairpodSign up to the LRB's newsletter: lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As part of our series of events marking the LRB's 40th anniversary, Katrina Forrester and William Davies discuss political crisis, and in particular the crisis of liberalism, through the lens of pieces they've written for the paper.Read more by Katrina Forrester in the LRB: https://lrb.me/forresterpodRead more by William Davies in the LRB: https://lrb.me/daviespod  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the London Review of Books, and mark the publication of The London Review of Books: An Incomplete History, the LRB’s editor, Mary-Kay Wilmers, along with Alan Bennett, Andrew O’Hagan, John Lanchester and Sheng Yun, talk to LRB publisher Nicholas Spice about the history and character of the paper. The London Review of Books: An Incomplete History is available to buy on the LRB store:https://lrb.me/storepodRead more Alan Bennett in the LRB here: https;//lrb.me/bennettpod  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bee Wilson on eating out in late Victorian London.Read more by Bee Wilson in the LRB: https://lrb.me/beewilsonpodSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

James Wood recalls his time at the college, with David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and others.Read more by James Wood in the LRB: https://lrb.me/jameswoodpodSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Andrew O'Hagan goes to the fashion designer's memorial at the Grand Palais in Paris.Read more by Andrew O'Hagan in the LRB: https://lrb.me/ohaganpodSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mary Wellesley looks inside the cell of a medieval anchorite, and considers why so many women shut themselves away to devote themselves to prayer and contemplation, and what their lives were like.Read Mary Wellesley in the LRB: lrb.me/wellesleypodSign up to the LRB newsletter: lrb.me/acast  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

‘Instead of shaking all over, I read the newspapers. I listened to the radio. I had my lunch.’ Colm Tóibín reads his account of being treated for cancer.Read more by Colm Tóibín in the LRB archive: lrb.me/colmtoibinpodSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.