London Review Bookshop Podcast
by London Review Bookshop
Listen to the latest literary events recorded at the London Review Bookshop, covering fiction, poetry, politics, music and much more.
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Episodes
Ella Risbridger & Kate Young: The Dinner Table
1h 8m · PublishedWho would you invite to a dinner party? In The Dinner Table, a delicious collection of great food writing from past and present, talented writer-chefs Kate Young and Ella Risbridger will introduce you to Samuel Pepys on the glories of parmesan, Shirley Jackson on washing up, Katherine Mansfield on party food, Nigella Lawson on mayonnaise, Michelle Zauner on kimchi and a great deal else besides.
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Ed Atkins & Steven Zultanski: Sorcerer
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Lynne Segal & Amelia Horgan: Lean on Me
1h 5m · PublishedIn Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care, Lynne Segal, Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, continues the radical exploration of how the personal and the political interact. As Baroness Helena Kennedy KC writes, ‘Both memoir and manifesto, this wonderful book charts a personal history of feminist socialism - and, with her usual humane wisdom, our author points the way to a better politics.’ She was joined in conversation by Amelia Horgan, author of Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism.
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Tom Stevenson & Tariq Ali: Someone Else's Empire
53m · PublishedIn Someone Else's Empire Tom Stevenson, a contributing editor at the LRB, dispels the potent myth of Britain as a global player punching above its weight on the world stage, arguing instead that its foreign policy has for a long time been in thrall to the wishes and interests of the United States.
He talks about his book with writer, filmmaker, publisher and activist Tariq Ali.
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Mathias Enard & Chris Power: The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild
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McKenzie Wark & Lauren John Joseph: Love and Money, Sex and Death
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Isabel Waidner and Diarmuid Hester: Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
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Amy Acre & Joelle Taylor: Mothersong
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Zadie Smith & Adam Thirlwell: The Fraud/The Future Future
1h 0m · PublishedHistorical fiction is having a moment, and at the forefront are two of 2023’s most hotly anticipated novels: Zadie Smith’s The Fraud and Adam Thirlwell’s The Future Future. Smith and Thirlwell discussed their approaches to fiction and the ways in which prose can ‘sandblast the dust off history’, as Polly Stenham writes about The Future Future.
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Danny Dorling & Leo Hollis: Shattered Nation
1h 8m · PublishedIn Shattered Nation, Oxford Professor of Geography Danny Dorling meticulously documents how Britain over the last 40 years has been transformed by incompetence, avarice and short-termism from one of the world’s leading economies, with widely admired public services, into Europe’s most unequal society, afflicted by staggering levels of deprivation and social division. Dorling was joined in conversation by Leo Hollis, author of The Stones of London and Inheritance.
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London Review Bookshop Podcast has 549 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 552:01:59. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 8th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 22nd, 2024 01:41.