The TLS Podcast

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Give Me Your Heart Jan 13, 2022

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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the poet A. E. Stallings to reconsider the ground-breaking work of Edna St Vincent Millay, a modern but not modernist poet, once judged 'the most glamorous, sexually-dangerous since Byron'; Thomas Morris, the author of medical and crime histories, delves into the often-troubling history of medical transplants; plus, a new poem by Ben Wilkinson, ‘What We Were’

'Poems and Satires' by Edna St Vincent Millay, edited by Tristram Fane Saunders

'Spare Parts: A surprising history of transplants' by Paul Craddock

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A Constant State of Foreignness Jan 06, 2022

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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the writer and translator Chiara Marchelli to revisit the work of Antonio Tabucchi, a master of the uncanny, ten years after his death; and the multilingual critic Irina Dumitrescu discusses a poignant study of bilingualism that considers how mother tongues are lost and found and at what cost

‘Little Misunderstandings of No Importance: And other stories’, by Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Frances Frenaye

‘Requiem: A hallucination’, by Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

‘Pereira Maintains: A testimony’, by Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Patrick Creagh

‘Memory Speaks: On losing and reclaiming language and self’ by Julie Sedivy

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Best of 2021 Dec 30, 2021

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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas look back atthis year’s podcasts.

We hear from Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Drabble, Mary Beard and Paul Muldoon, among others, covering literature, film, art, poetry and much more.

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Best of 2021 Dec 30, 2021

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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas look back atthis year’s podcasts.

We hear from Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Drabble, Mary Beard and Paul Muldoon, among others, covering literature, film, art, poetry and much more.

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BONUS: Sarah Hall and Sarah Moss – an interview Dec 23, 2021

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A conversation between the novelists Sarah Hall and Sarah Moss, both of whose most recent novels confront life in the middle of a pandemic, chaired by the TLS’s fiction editor Toby Lichtig.

(This event was recorded in November at Hay Festival’s Winter Weekend)

'Burntcoat' by Sarah Hall

'The Fell' by Sarah Moss

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This Is Magic Dec 16, 2021

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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Emer Nolan, Professor of English at Maynooth University, to discuss the letters of John McGahern, one of Ireland’s most accomplished writers of fiction; How did Napoleon get his hands on Veronese’s enormous masterpiece “The Wedding Feast at Cana”, once safely housed in a Venetian monastery? Does it matter and should we do anything to remedy the situation? Ruth Scurr, the author of ‘Napoleon: A Life told in gardens and shadows’, considers Napoleon’s thirst for art, and its legacy; plus, a quick look at some of 2021’s most favourably reviewed films and plays ‘The Letters of John McGahern’, edited by Frank Shovlin‘Napoleon’s Plunder: And the theft of Veronese’s Feast’ by Cynthia SaltzmanProduced by Sophia Franklin

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On not letting it be Dec 09, 2021

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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Francesca Wade, at work on a book about Gertrude Stein’s afterlife, to discuss Stein’s ‘lost’ notebooks – and the magnificent amount of research conducted by Leon Katz, who discovered them some seventy years ago – and shed new light on the writer’s process and personal life; and the musician and critic Wesley Stace takes us back to a stormy but productive time in the life of The Beatles, via a new film by Peter Jackson

‘No no no, nonsense, never: Hidden notebooks reveal the tense relationships behind Gertrude Stein’s genius’ by Francesca Wade, in this week’s TLS.

‘The Beatles: Get Back’, on Disney+

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George Orwell and his Roses and a History of Self-Improvement Dec 02, 2021

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This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark discuss roses, Orwell and rhizomatic thinking with Margaret Drabble; Kathryn Hughes is our guide through histories of self-improvement; plus, what log-rolling really means.

'Orwell's Roses' by Rebecca Solnit

'The Art of Self-Improvement' by Anna Katharina Schaffner

The Log Driver's Waltz: https://www.nfb.ca/film/log_drivers_waltz

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Books of the Year 2021 Nov 25, 2021

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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by TLS editors to look through twelve months of intriguing books, as nominated by contributors including Mary Beard, the poet Paul Muldoon and the writer and critic Marina Warner, covering a range of genres and subjects, from ancient Greek swear words to fictional messiahs

For the full round-up, go to the-tls.co.uk/

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The Mythic Town of Concord and the Magic of the Lighted Window Nov 18, 2021

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This week, Lucy Dallas and Toby Lichtig are guided by Mark Ford through Concord, Massachusetts, the home of Emerson, Thoreau and the Transcendentalists; we talk to Susan Owens about the mystery and melancholy of lighted windows seen from outside; plus, new work from Dave Eggers and Zadie Smith

'The Transcendentalists and their world' by Robert A. Gross

'The Every' by Dave Eggers

'The Wife of Willesden' by Zadie Smith

'The Lighted Window: Evening walks remembered' by Peter Davidson

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