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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:

The Gene Genie Jan 29, 2023

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Nessa Carey explores how recent scientific breakthroughs allow experimentation with the DNA of all living species.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-genetic-age-matthew-cobb-book-review-nessa-carey/

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Telling It Like It Is Jan 26, 2023

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Richard Smyth remembers the equanimity and attentiveness of Ronald Blythe; and Mary Flannery on the enduring appeal of Alison, the Wife of Bath.

‘Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside’ by Ronald Blythe

‘The Wife of Bath: A Biography’ by Marion Turner

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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Stories That Simply Unfold Jan 22, 2023

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Kirsty Gunn considers Katherine Mansfield’s place in the literary canon.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/all-sorts-of-lives-katherine-mansfield-claire-harman-book-review-kirsty-gunn/

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Rattling The Handle On Life Jan 19, 2023

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This week, Gabriel Roberts explores the past, present and - we very much hope - the future of bioabundance in animal species; and novelist Gwendoline Riley takes us into the affecting and brutally funny world of Michael Bracewell’s return to fiction after 21 years.

Species loss and bioabundance, by Gabriel Roberts

‘Unfinished Business’ by Michael Bracewell

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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A Sea-Brooding Poet Jan 16, 2023

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Christy Edwall reflects on a meditations on Keats’s poems, and a new account of his last days.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/a-greeting-of-the-spirit-susan-wolfson-written-in-water-alessandro-gallenzi-keats-book-review-christy-edwall/

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Radical Barbie Jan 09, 2023

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Olivia Laing secrets and lies in the life and work of Kathy Acker.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/eat-your-mind-kathy-acker-jason-mcbride-book-review-olivia-laing/

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Festive Shadows and Feasts of Panackelty Dec 22, 2022

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This week, Lucy Lethbridge explains what a curate's eye is, and how ideas of British cooking range from Aga fantasies to bacon butties; and J. S. Barnes takes us to the dark side of the festive season, via Dickens and M. R. James....

'The British Cookbook: Authentic home cooking recipes from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland' by Ben Mervis

'To Be Read At Dusk: Dickens, ghosts and the supernatural', Charles Dickens Museum, London, until March 5, 2023

'The Witch Farm', BBC Radio 4 and Sounds

'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas', Nunkie Theatre Company, December 24, live online

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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Simon McBurney of Complicité - "We've always been interested in the idea of connection" Dec 18, 2022

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Simon McBurney, the artistic director of the endlessly innovative and influential Complicité theatre company, talks to Lucy Dallas about two of their major new projects.

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The Power of Connections Dec 15, 2022

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This week, we hear how the music-hall star Josephine Baker became a secret agent; and we talk to Simon McBurney of Complicité theatre company, about their haunting audio production of Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising.

'The Flame of Resistance' by Damien Lewis

'The Dark Is Rising' by Susan Cooper, BBC World Service, December 20

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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The Road To St Helena Dec 11, 2022

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Alan Forrest on Napoleon’s enemies at home and abroad.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/napoleon-michael-broers-napoleon-at-peace-william-doyle-book-review-alan-forrest/

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