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The LRB Podcast

by The London Review of Books

The LRB Podcast brings you weekly conversations from Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas, hosted by Thomas Jones and Malin Hay, and featuring our fortnightly 'On Politics' podcast hosted by James Butler.
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1
Ordinary Abuse
56:25 Mar 18, 2026
2
On Politics: Keir Starmer’s Mess
1:11:52 Mar 12, 2026
3
What Next in Iran?
58:33 Mar 11, 2026
4
Caravaggio’s Bodies
43:56 Mar 4, 2026
5
On Politics: The Rearmament Consensus
1:05:41 Feb 25, 2026
6
Early Modern News
45:03 Feb 18, 2026
7
On Politics: Mandelson and the Private Life of Power
1:06:49 Feb 11, 2026
8
Jessica Mitford’s Handbag
50:44 Feb 4, 2026
9
On Politics: A New Age of Protest in Iran
57:13 Jan 28, 2026
10
Buckley, MAGA’s Patron Saint
47:30 Jan 21, 2026
11
On Politics: Venezuela and the Trump Doctrine
1:01:35 Jan 14, 2026
12
Will the AI bubble burst?
54:58 Jan 7, 2026
13
What Don Quixote Knew
1:03:25 Dec 31, 2025
14
What Dickens taught Mariah Carey
33:51 Dec 24, 2025
15
Is ‘Wuthering Heights’ amoral?
1:38:56 Dec 19, 2025
16
Who owns Judy Garland?
48:56 Dec 17, 2025
17
On Politics: Inside Britain’s Asylum System
1:02:52 Dec 10, 2025
18
The Life and Death of a Photographer in Gaza
53:45 Dec 3, 2025
19
Next Year on Close Readings: Realism, Nature, Narrative Poems and a history of London
16:41 Nov 29, 2025
20
On Politics: The Bust-up at the BBC
1:04:48 Nov 26, 2025
21
Aftershock: The War on Terror – Episode 1: With Us or Against Us
44:54 Nov 21, 2025
22
Where does our waste go?
57:10 Nov 19, 2025
23
Introducing ‘Aftershock: The War on Terror’
3:57 Nov 15, 2025
24
On Politics: Latin America’s Right-Wing Shift
1:08:32 Nov 12, 2025
25
Pollution and Other Serial Killers
38:14 Nov 5, 2025
26
On Politics: Do bond markets and the Bank of England run Britain?
1:05:30 Oct 29, 2025
27
Extinction, Fast and Slow
38:45 Oct 22, 2025
28
On Politics: The Online Right (and Left)
1:15:00 Oct 15, 2025
29
Lessons from the Peace Process
1:00:48 Oct 10, 2025
30
Why should we listen to Amanda Knox?
44:48 Oct 8, 2025
31
On Politics: The Death of the Conservative Party?
55:22 Oct 1, 2025
32
How to Write Like Elmore Leonard
42:15 Sep 24, 2025
33
On Politics: Labour's Problems
1:07:07 Sep 17, 2025
34
Selling the Manosphere
39:59 Sep 10, 2025
35
The Debt to David Graeber
59:53 Sep 3, 2025
36
What’s so great about Formula One?
1:02:08 Aug 27, 2025
37
Close Readings: 'Our Mutual Friend' by Charles Dickens
35:43 Aug 20, 2025
38
The Psychology of Tennis
46:12 Aug 13, 2025
39
Why you should care about golf
55:56 Aug 6, 2025
40
Close Readings: ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley
34:21 Jul 30, 2025
41
Rat Universes
44:03 Jul 23, 2025
42
Pinochet and the Nazis
46:21 Jul 16, 2025
43
Israel's War of Opportunity
49:43 Jul 9, 2025
44
Close Readings: Mikhail Bulgakov and James Hogg
34:01 Jul 2, 2025
45
The Best-Paid Woman in NYC
40:30 Jun 25, 2025
46
Silicon Valley Warriors
54:46 Jun 18, 2025
47
The Best French Novel of the 20th Century
43:06 Jun 11, 2025
48
Is this fascism?
50:01 Jun 4, 2025
49
Close Readings: Nietzsche's 'Schopenhauer as Educator'
32:14 May 28, 2025
50
Old Pope, New Pope
43:45 May 21, 2025
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