John Lanchester talks to Tom about the recent scandals involving two DAX-listed companies, Volkswagen and Wirecard, and the ways in which they challenge the stereotypes of German business.
Emma John and Natasha Chahal join Tom to discuss England’s victory in Euro 2022, the long history of women’s football – mentioned in a poem by Philip Sidney in the 16th century, banned by the FA...
Miranda Carter talks to Tom about the history of the world’s longest-running interview show, Desert Island Discs.
Andrew Liu talks to Tom about the Chinese workers who followed the gold rush to California, Australia and South Africa in the 19th century, as described in a new book by Mae Ngai, The Chinese Question.
David, Helen and Catherine get together for the final episode of Talking Politics, to reflect on podcasting through six extraordinary years of politics, and what it means to be ending at the beginning...
For the podcast’s penultimate episode, David talks to Helen about her new book Disorder: Hard Times in the Twenty-First Century. It’s a conversation about many of the themes Helen has explored on...
David talks to Shahin Vallee and Chris Bickerton about the upcoming French presidential elections and the Macron years so far. Can anything or anyone stop Macron? Why has French politics moved so far to...
David, Helen and Chris Brooke have one more go at making sense of the tangled web that is British politics. Can Johnson really survive, and even if he does, can his brand ever recover? Is this a scandal,...
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the lives and works of two poets, Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, close friends and leading lights of the New York School, who sought to create an anti-academic poetry,...
In the final episode in our series looking at the way history was transformed in the Romantic period, Neil MacGregor joins Rosemary Hill to discuss the circulation of artefacts throughout Europe in the...
In the third episode of her series looking at how history was transformed in the Romantic period, Rosemary Hill talks to Roey Sweet about the antiquarians, a new breed of multi-disciplinary investigators,...
In the 1740s the Scots were invading England and the wearing of tartan was banned. By the 1850s, Queen Victoria had built her Gothic fantasy in Aberdeenshire and tartan was everywhere. What happened in...
Building on her essay ‘Does anyone have the right to sex?’, first published in the LRB in 2018, The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan explores the political and cultural dimensions of sexual desire,...
Jacqueline Rose discusses her book On Violence and On Violence Against Women with Jude Kelly.
Bidisha, Terry Castle and Eley Williams discuss the work of the fearlessly original novelist, essayist, critic and political campaigner Brigid Brophy.
André Aciman talks to Brian Dillon about his latest book, Homo Irrealis, a collection of essays.
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