London Review Bookshop Podcasts

David Hare free-associates on politics, theatre and writing, inspired by his collection Obedience, Struggle and Revolt.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The actress and political activist Betsy Blair discusses Hollywood in the 1950s, her marriages to Gene Kelly and Karel Reisz, her tangles with the Blacklist, her adventures in Europe and the writing of her memoir, The Memory of All That.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

One of the original Beats, Michael McClure was back in London for the first time in thirty years and gave an exclusive reading at the Bookshop.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Robert Chandler reads from his newly-published translation of Nikolay Leskov's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk on which the libretto of Shostakovich's opera is based.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Don Paterson read from his 2004 collection Landing Light (Faber), which won both the Whitbread Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot prize.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On the day following press night at the National Theatre, Alan Bennett spoke at the London Review Bookshop about The History Boys. The play asks questions about history and how it should be taught, and about education and its purpose.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To celebrate the publication of Carcanet's new anthology of the New York School poets, editor Mark Ford, poets Lee Harwood and Sarah Maguire, and translator Piotr Sommer read selections from the new collection.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Terry Castle, editor of The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Aristo to Stonewall, explored the emergence of and transformation of the idea of lesbianism, and how it has been collectively embellished over the last five centuries.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In one of the first events held at the London Review Bookshop, Mary Beard and Robert Irwin squared up to each other to debate the relative greatness of two magnificent structures, the Alhambra and the Parthenon.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.