The TLS Podcast

This week, Devoney Looser on what we don't know about Jane Austen; and Peter Swaab introdu... more

This week, Camille Ralphs confides the highs and lows of travelling by Greyhound bus; and ... more

This week, Damian Flanagan explores the complex history of the Japanese masterpiece The Ta... more

This week, TLS contributors select their favourites from 2025; plus an interview with CD R... more

This week, how well does Alan Hollinghurst's novel The Line of Beauty translate to the sta... more

This week, Terri Apter reviews a quartet of books exploring the impact of parenthood on id... more

This week, Lily Herd introduces us to the concept of Fascist Yoga; and Mark Storey on Amer... more

This week, Margaret Drabble enjoys an enthralling biography of an adventure writer and his... more

This week, Mary Beard grapples with a noisy new version of Euripides at the National Theat... more

This week, Tim Lake explains why Bertie Wooster is not half the dimwit we think he is; and... more

This week, Nicola Shulman is entranced by the life of a naturalist; and Larry Wolff enjoys... more

This week, Richard Sennett delivers a powerful warning to universities to defend their fre... more

This week, AE Stallings immerses herself in Daniel Mendelsohn's new translation of Homer's... more

This week, James Shapiro celebrates New York's love affair with Shakespeare; Mark Nayler g... more

This week, Professor Jonathan Bate on a tiny Elizabethan portrait with an illuminating his... more

This week, the winner of this year's TLS Ackerley Prize, Jeff Young, discusses his spellbi... more

This week, George Berridge instructs Lucy and Alex on the noble art of oenophilia; and Luc... more

Alex Clark celebrates the life and work of Edna O'Brien with filmmaker Sinéad O'Shea and n... more

This week, a special interview with farmer and writer James Rebanks about a life-changing ... more

This week, Emile Chabal braces himself against the barrelling force of the Mistral; and Ka... more

This week, Norma Clarke explores the ancient arts of hedge-laying, thatching, hay-cutting ... more

This week, Alicia Rix charts Henry James's return to an unrecognisable homeland; and David... more

This week, Michael LaPointe celebrates a century of The Great Gatsby; and Miranda France o... more

This week, Nicola Shulman is staggered by Sarah Vine's account of Westminster rivalry; and... more

... thinking about tomorrow. This week, Michael Caines on a musical inspired by a classic ... more

This week, what TLS contributors are reading this summer; and Catherine Taylor on a trio o... more

This week, Sara Lodge counts the ways that mathematics influenced writers from Byron to Tr... more

This week, a special podcast from the Hay Festival ranges from the ancient world to the 16... more