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Andrew O'Hagan: ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 18.07.2012 13:29

Andrew O’Hagan reads 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and considers the art of terrible writing about sex. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ahdaf Souief: Mina’s Banner and the Egyptian Revolution 14.06.2012 1:09:17

In the 2012 Edward Said Lecture, Ahdaf Soueif tells the story of ‘Mina’s Banner’ and the Egyptian revolution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ralph Fiennes reads ‘The University Poem’ by Nabokov 06.06.2012 37:07

Ralph Fiennes reads ‘The University Poem’, which Nabokov wrote in 1926, four years after he left Trinity College, Cambridge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Lanchester: Marx at 193 04.04.2012 59:12

John Lanchester delivers his lecture writes about Karl Marx at 193. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Neal Ascherson: The History and Future of Europe 22.03.2012 1:03:10

Neal Ascherson discusses the competing forces of integration and nationalism throughout the history of modern Europe, and the ways in which they’ve shaped individual and collective identities, and considers the implications of the end of Cold Way on the continent’s social democratic frameworks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

Alan Bennett: From his 2011 diary 05.01.2012 9:34

Alan Bennett considers the banana skin and is mistaken for ‘another Alan’ in his Diary for 2011. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Wonderfulness of Us 18.08.2011 1:01:58

Andrew O’Hagan chaired this discussion between Linda Colley, R.W. Johnson and Tom Devine about national histories and the ways they should, and should not, be taught. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacqueline Rose: Freud, Jung and Sylvia Plath 06.06.2011 1:11:29

Jacqueline Rose speaks about her first readings of Freud and Jung and her encounters with feminism, Sylvia Plath and Israel/Palestine, in this interview with Paul Myerscough recorded in 2011. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Judith Butler: Who Owns Kafka? 03.03.2011 59:15

Judith Butler asks ‘Who Owns Kafka?’ in one of the LRB’s 2011 Winter Lectures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

T.J. Clark: Picasso’s Guernica Revisited 14.02.2011 1:05:00

T.J. Clark shows how the painting of Guernica in May and June 1937 changed the way Picasso imagined space, in this 2011 LRB Winter Lecture at the British Museum, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices