London Review Podcasts
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Sinopse
LRB-published writers read their own work, introduced by the editors of the London Review of Books. Recent podcasts have included Gillian Anderson reading Charlotte Brontës Ingratitude, Alan Bennett reading from his diary, Tariq Ali on his visit to North Korea and Jeremy Harding on migration. Therell be something new every fortnight.
Episódios
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Alan Bennett: What I did in 2013
09/01/2014 Duração: 12minAlan 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.
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Penelope Fitzgerald
19/12/2013 Duração: 12minJenny Turner on Penelope Fitzgerald See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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A Death in Jenin
21/11/2013 Duração: 01h03minAdam Shatz on the life and death of Juliano Mer-Khamis. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Mailer’s Last Punch
07/11/2013 Duração: 10minAndrew O’Hagan remembers Norman Mailer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Short Cuts
23/10/2013 Duração: 09minJacqueline Rose on what links Frank Kermode and Nigel Farage. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Australia’s Boat-People
25/09/2013 Duração: 29minIn 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.
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In Conversation: Jacqueline Rose on Sylvia Plath, feminism, Proust, psychoanalysis, Zionism and more
31/08/2013 Duração: 55minRecognised 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.
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In Conversation: Jacqueline Rose on Rosa Luxemburg and Marilyn Monroe
30/08/2013 Duração: 55minJacqueline 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.
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Colm Tóibín: In Conversation
30/08/2013 Duração: 01h01minAuthor, 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.
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At the Movies
07/08/2013 Duração: 08minMichael 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.
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‘Bedsit Disco Queen’
17/07/2013 Duração: 15minLavinia 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.
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Emily Davison, Modern Martyr
03/07/2013 Duração: 39minMarina 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.
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Is Wagner bad for us?
10/04/2013 Duração: 01h16minOn 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.
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American Democracy
21/03/2013 Duração: 01h25minDavid Runciman on the impossibility and persistence of the US political system. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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On the Middle East
18/03/2013 Duração: 01h33minIn 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.
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The Wonderfulness of Us
18/08/2011 Duração: 59minAndrew O’Hagan chaired this discussion between Linda Colley, R.W. Johnson and Tom Devine about national histories and the ways they should, and should not, be taught. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Picasso’s Guernica Revisited
14/02/2011 Duração: 01h03minIn his 2011 Winter Lecture at the British Museum, T.J. Clark shows how the painting of Guernica in May and June 1937 changed the way Picasso imagined space. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.