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Sonia Gandhi and Rupert Beale, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, talk to Thomas Jones about the ways Covid-19 can affect the nervous system, the steps required to reopen the NHS after lockdown, the state of testing, and reasons for optimism about a vaccine.
Read Rupert Beale’s latest piece on the coronavirus here: How to Block Spike
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Andrew O’Hagan talks to Thomas Jones about the friendship between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, and the time they spent together in Bournemouth.
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Michael Wood talks to Adam Shatz about critical theory, its origins, developments and various diversions, and where it stands today. The conversation marks the publication of the eighth volume in the LRB Collections series, The Meaninglessness of Meaning: Writing about the theory wars from the ‘London Review of Books’ by contributors including Pierre Bourdieau, Judith Butler, Richard Rorty, Lorna Sage, John Sturrock and Michael Wood.
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Colm Tóibín talks to Thomas Jones about the breakdown of Elizabeth Hardwick’s marriage to Robert Lowell, and its literary consequences.
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Mary Wellesley talks to Joanna Biggs about islands, blessed and not so blessed, from Homerto the Fyre Festival.
Read more by Mary Wellesley in the LRB:
On Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Joanna Biggs talks to Thomas Jones about the life of Simone de Beauvoir.
Further reading on Beauvoir in the LRB:
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Michael Rogin: https://lrb.me/rogindebeauvoirpod
Toril Moi: https://lrb.me/torilmoipod
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Lana Spawls talks to Thomas Jones about working on a paediatric ward during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the ways hospitals have changed in response to the virus.
Read Lana's latest piece in the LRB: Lana Spawls: How to set up an ICU
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Rupert Beale talks again to Thomas Jones about his work at the Francis Crick Institute, where he’s helping to set up a testing lab for Covid-19. He talks about the challenges of creating a scalable process, explains why a successful antibody test could be hard to achieve, and finds some reasons to be hopeful.
You can find a full transcript of this episode HERE.
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Lana Spawls: How to set up an ICU
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Erin Maglaque talks to Thomas Jones about the lockdown imposed by the city of Florence in January 1631 in response to a plague outbreak, the similarities with our current situation, and the differences.
Maglaque wrote about the plague in Florence in a recent issue of the LRB, reviewing Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City by John Henderson.
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Read Tom's piece on Italy and the coronavirus pandemic: https://lrb.me/jonesitalypod
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Following his piece for the LRB about Covid-19, Rupert Beale talks to Thomas Jones about what the novel coronavirus is, how well countries are dealing with it, and what hopes there are for stopping the contagion.
Read Rupert's piece here: https://lrb.me/bealecoronaviruspod
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