The LRB Podcast
27 December 2021
Alan Bennett reads his diary for 2021, in which he falls over Philip Roth, changes the course of English history, and considers selling his hair on eBay.Bennett read the first part of this diary...
Podcasts & Videos
Podcasts
The LRB Podcast
18 January 2022
In the third and final guest episode from a new podcast series, Myself With Others, Adam Shatz talks to food writer Claudia Roden.
Talking Politics
American Civil War?
Helen Thompson and David Runciman, 20 January 2022
20 January 2022
One year on from Joe Biden’s inauguration, David and Helen talk with historian Gary Gerstle about what’s gone wrong. What is the strategy behind this presidency? Has it tried to do too much...
Close Readings
On W.B. Yeats
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford, 24 January 2022
21 December 2021
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford turn to the life and work of W.B. Yeats in the latest episode in their ongoing Close Readings series.
Videos
Lectures & Events
Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan
Richard Lloyd Parry, 28 June 2021
11 March 2020
In his 2020 LRB Winter Lecture, Richard Lloyd Parry considers the paradoxical figure of Akihito, who abdicated in April 2019: a hereditary monarch, the son of the wartime emperor, Hirohito, strictly...
LRB Films & Interviews
8 April 2021
Anthony Wilks's film traces the connections between the events of Eric Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told, from his teenage years in Germany and his communist membership, to the jazz clubs of...
Bookshop Events & Films
29 October 2021
Hilary Mantel talks to David Runciman and Helen Thompson from our partner podcast, Talking Politics, as part of our series of events on 'The Power Behind the Throne'.
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