The TLS Podcast

Updated: 27 Mar 2025 • 591 episodes
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27 Mar 2025 • EN

Into The Wild

This week, we're joined by Harriet Baker, winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award; and Helen Scales tunes into the sonic marvels beneath the surface of the sea. 'Rural Hours: The country lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann', by Harriet Baker 'Sing Like a Fish: How soun

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20 Mar 2025 • EN

Breaking Ground

This week, novelist Damon Galgut remembers the ground-breaking South African playwright Athol Fugard; and Michael Caines on two very different approaches to the Danish prince. 'Grand Theft Hamlet', on Mubi 'Hamlet', by William Shakespeare, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon- Avon, until March 29  Produced by Cha

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13 Mar 2025 • EN

Making Waves

This week, Larry Wolff immerses himself in a bold operatic vision of Melville's classic; and Travis Elborough on a boosterish attempt to rescue Croydon from its knockers. 'Moby-Dick', composed by Jake Heggie, Metropolitan Opera House, New York, until March 29 'Croydonopolis: A Journey to the Greatest City that Never Wa

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06 Mar 2025 • EN

Once Upon a Time

This week, Toby Lichtig chats to Sam Leith about formative literature at Jewish Book Week; and David Horspool meets Sue Prideaux, winner of this year's Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize. 'The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading', by Sam Leith 'Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin', by Sue Prideaux Produced by Charlott

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27 Feb 2025 • EN

Hidden Realms

This week, Michael Caines interviews the men behind the Royal Shakespeare Company's thrilling new production of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II; and Nat Segnit finds Pico Iyer's journeys to a Californian monastery a welcome retreat from the world. 'Edward II', by Christopher Marlowe, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon,

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20 Feb 2025 • EN

Hubris and Nemesis

This week, Edith Hall finds herself mesmerised, entranced and perplexed by Sophocles; and Barnaby Phillips on a bizarre imperial incursion in 19th-century Africa. 'Oedipus', by Sophocles, Old Vic until March 29 'Electra', by Sophocles, Duke of York's Theatre until April 12 'A Training School for Elephants', by Sophy Ro

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