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Don't sweat it Sep 16, 2021

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This week, Lucy Dallas and Toby Lichtig are joined by the critic and gym-sceptic Irina Dumitrescu to consider a clutch of books about fitness – how it came to be the industry it is, what it means to us, even what the smell of sweat does; Alex Clark, a regular contributor to the TLS’s fiction pages, runs through this year’s Booker Prize shortlist, just announced, before turning to a real-life story that reads like a mystery novel: the “Stonehouse affair”, the tale of the MP and former Cabinet minister John Stonehouse, who disappeared while swimming from a private beach in Miami

The Age of Fitness: How the body came to symbolize success and achievement by Jürgen Martschukat

Exercised: The science of physical activity, rest and health by Daniel Lieberman

The Joy of Sweat: The strange science of perspiration by Sarah Everts

The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel

John Stonehouse, My Father: The true story of the runaway MP, by Julia Stonehouse

Stonehouse: Cabinet minister, fraudster, spy by Julian Hayes

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Indexes, Newsletters, Potatoes, Gold! Sep 08, 2021

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Lucy Dallas and Michael Caines are joined by Dennis Duncan, the author of ‘Index, A History of the’, to discuss how we navigate the contents between books' covers, taking in alphabets, concordances, ancient search engines and much more; What is Substack: a publishing start-up or a reboot of a nineteenth-century literary idea?; and the writer and translator Miranda France discusses a new book by the famed psychogeographer Iain Sinclair, which takes us to Peru, in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, who made a fascinating and, to us, troubling expedition to the Upper Amazon region in 1891.

‘Index, A History of the’ by Dennis Duncan

‘The Gold Machine: In the tracks of the mule dancers’ by Iain Sinclair

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TLS Summer Library: Part IV Sep 01, 2021

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Throughout the summer, we are revisiting the very best of the podcast during the last year.

In this episode - it's movie week; the author Colin Grant discusses Steve McQueen's Small Axe and the Academy Award-winning Nomadland starring Frances McDormand, Yoojin Grace Wuertz talks us through the Korean American Dream film Minari, and Clifford Thompson reviews Regina King's directorial debut One Night in Miami - which sees Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown and Cassius Clay gather for a heated debate.

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TLS Summer Library: Part III Aug 25, 2021

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Throughout August, we are revisiting the very best of the podcast during the last year.

In this episode; the comedian David Baddiel joins Toby Lichtig to talk about his book 'Jews Don't Count' which explores the insidious, pervasive, exclusionary nature of ‘progressive’ antisemitism, Éadaoín Lynch remembers fully and truthfully the relationship between the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, and Lucy Scholes reviews a clutch of novels in the British Library's Women Writers series, dedicated to once-popular writers.

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The Guidance of Brains Aug 22, 2021

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In this bonus TLS long read, the writer and author of Mind the Gap, Ferdinand Mount, asks - how much is too much meritocracy?

www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-aristocracy-of-talent-adrian-wooldridge-book-review-ferdinand-mount

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TLS Summer Library: Part II Aug 18, 2021

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Throughout August, we are revisiting the very best of the podcast during the last year.

In this episode; the TLS's Classics editor Mary Beard emphasizes the importance of teaching Classics in context, the medievalist Hetta Howes reviews a female take on 'Beowulf', and Ruth Scurr reveals the true history of the secretive Freemasons.

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TLS Summer Library: Part I Aug 11, 2021

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Throughout August, we are revisiting the very best of the podcast during the last year.

In this episode; the TLS's fiction editor Toby Lichtig talks to Douglas Stuart about his 2020 Booker Prize-winning novel Shuggie Bain, the writer Laura Thompson joins Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas to discuss the work of Agatha Christie and how she has managed to move with the times, and Edmund Gordon to reviews 'Klara and the Sun' - Kazuo Ishiguro’s new Booker Prize longlisted novel about an Artificial Friend.

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Turning poetry into profit with Alighieri Jewellery's Rosh Mahtani Aug 11, 2021

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In a special bonus podcast we bring you an episode of Secrets of the Side Hustle that we think you might enjoy.

Host Laura Jackson speaks with Alighieri Jewellery founder, Rosh Mahtani, about her business journey, the importance of connecting with your customers and why a 14th century epic poem makes the perfect inspiration for a 21st century business...

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Paternal Effects Aug 08, 2021

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In this bonus TLS long read, Michele Pridmore-Brown, researcher at The University of California - Berkeley, discusses what science can tell us about manliness.

www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-better-half-sharon-moalem-are-men-animals-matthew-guttmann-guynecology-rene-almeling-review-michelle-pridmore-brown

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A Genius of Cancer and a Queen of Bohemia Aug 04, 2021

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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Thomas Morris, the author of 'The Matter of the Heart: A history of the heart in eleven operations', to discuss the extraordinary life and influence of the Nobel prize-winning Jewish biochemist Otto Warburg, whose research into cancer, as well as his audacious character, helped him to survive Nazi Germany; the art critic and historian Frances Spalding celebrates the energetic and sophisticated paintings of Nina Hamnett, whose colourful social life has tended to eclipse her talents. Plus, Shakespeare in the open air.

Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the search for the cancer-diet connection, by Sam Apple

Nina Hamnett, Charleston, Sussex, until August 30th

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