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**The TLS Podcast**

A weekly podcast on books and culture brought to you by the writers and editors of the Times Literary Supplement.

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Latest Episodes:

Searching for the Good Life Apr 09, 2023

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Searching for the Good Life

Skye Clery on how to cope with the fear of death and other anxieties

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/life-is-short-dean-rickles-life-is-hard-kieran-setiya-book-review-skye-cleary/

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Disrupting the Narrative Apr 06, 2023

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Lamorna Ash joins us to talk about Shy, Max Porter’s tale of teenage angst; and Jonathan Taylor on an illuminating survey of the uses and abuses of storytelling.

’Shy’ by Max Porter

’Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative’ by Peter Brooks

Producer :Lucy Dichmont

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Mother Knows Best Apr 02, 2023

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Mother Knows Best

Michele Pridmore-Brown considers recent insights into parenthood from neuroscience, archaeology and social policy

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/mother-brain-chelsea-conaboy-what-makes-a-person-mark-hanson-lucy-green-growing-up-human-brenna-hassett-book-review-michele-pridmore-brown/

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Always Look On The Bright Side of Life Mar 30, 2023

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This week, we go in search of the meaning of life, death and the universe, in the capable hands of Nat Segnit and Skye Cleary.

‘The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery’ by Adam Gopnik

‘Life is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful’ by Dean Rickles

‘Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way’ by Kieran Setiya

Produced by Lucy Dichmont

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Scratch The Surface Mar 26, 2023

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Irina Dumitrescu considers what psoriasis tells us about social outcasts.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/skin-sergio-del-molino-book-review-irina-dumitrescu/

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Private Faces In Public Places Mar 23, 2023

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This week, Margarette Lincoln on the secret life of Daniel Defoe, government agent; and Claire Lowdon transports herself back to the teenage turmoil of Martin Amis’s debut novel, fifty years on.

‘The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe’ edited by Nicholas Seager

‘The Rachel Papers’ by Martin Amis

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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In A Green Shade Mar 16, 2023

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This week, Helen Bynum enjoins us to consider the secret lives of plants; and Jacqueline Banerjee on love and marriage in the world of George Eliot.

‘Planta Sapiens: Unmasking Plant Intelligence’ by Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence

‘The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life’ by Clare Carlisle

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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American Paranoia Mar 12, 2023

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Geoffrey Wheatcroft considers how the First World War triggered a wave of xenophobia and a Red Scare.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/american-midnight-adam-hochschild-book-review-geoffrey-wheatcroft/

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The Isle is Full of Noises Mar 09, 2023

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Flora Willson explores the struggle of four women composers to have their work heard, and Biancamaria Fontana on the late David Graeber’s survey of Madagascan pirate kingdoms.

‘Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World’ by Leah Broad

‘Pirate Enlightenment: Or the Real Libertalia’ by David Graeber

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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Turning Leaves Mar 07, 2023

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In our first instalment, we talk to novelist Dame Margaret Drabble and her son, gardener and TV presenter Joe Swift. Their wide-ranging conversation includes a disagreement over pelargoniums, Joe’s childhood insistence on playing football in his mother’s cottage garden, the joys of irregular hedges and fashions in fiction and foliage alike.

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