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    Late works

    Geoff Dyer and Dame Sheila Hancock discuss endings and lateness with Matthew Sweet.

  2. Lars von Trier Special

    In this special edition of the podcast, Matthew Sweet's full interview with the Danish...

  3. Larkin's Letters, Mary Warnock & H P Lovecraft

    Philip Dodd and poets Fiona Sampson & Anthony Thwaite discuss the letters of Philip to...

  4. Language

    Matthew Sweet and guests explore the way language unites and divides us

  5. Landmarks: Solaris

    A celebration of one of the great landmarks of culture as Matthew Sweet talks to the...

  6. Landmarks: Alien

    Philip Dodd considers the enduring appeal of the film Alien and whether it's blend of...

  7. Landmark: Watership Down

    An ecological fable about a perfect society ? Matthew Sweet reads Richard Adams' classic.

  8. Landmark: The Yorkshire Feminist Winifred Holtby

    Matthew Sweet is joined by Rachel Reeves MP, Jane Thomas and Katie Cooper in Hull.

  9. Landmark: The Odyssey

    Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson join Philip Dodd

  10. Landmark: Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation

    Lauren Elkin, Lisa Appignanesi and Ben Moser on Susan Sontag's 1966 essay collection.

  11. Landmark: Rashōmon

    David Peace & Natasha Pulley look at the writing of Akutagawa and the film by Kurosawa.

  12. Landmark: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

    Rana Mitter hosts a debate at Hay Festival about the rise of the environmental movement

  13. Landmark: Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box

    Matthew Sweet pays tribute to Hollywood's most famous comedy duo Stan and Ollie

  14. Landmark: Journey to the End of the Night

    Marie Darrieussecq, Andrew Hussey , Tibor Fischer& Damian Catani on Céline's masterpiece

  15. Landmark: Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good

    Matthew Sweet discusses Iris Murdoch's philosophical essay of 1970

  16. Landmark: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries

    Colm Toibin, critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Ellen Wettmark join Matthew Sweet.

  17. Landmark: Finnegans Wake

    Matthew Sweet and guests discuss James Joyce's experimental novel.

  18. Landmark: Audre Lorde

    Jackie Kay & Selina Thompson discuss the influential US writer & civil rights activist

  19. Landmark: Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress

    Michael Symmons Roberts, Helen Mort and Stewart Mottram join Matthew Sweet in Hull.

  20. Landmark Jaws: Sharks and Whales

    Matthew Sweet talks Jaws with shark expert Gareth Fraser and novelist Will Self.

  21. Landmark – Man with a Movie Camera

    Michael Nyman, Alexei Popogrebsky, Ian Christie and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh on Dziga Vertov

  22. Landmark - This Sporting Life

    Philip Dodd and his guests on David Storey's 1960 novel set in the world of rugby league

  23. Landladies

    Historical accounts and fictional depictions of the women who ran boarding houses.

  24. Landladies

    Historical accounts and fictional depictions of the women who ran boarding houses.

  25. Land and soil politics

    Jim Scown on the links between Goethe, George Eliot and the storming of the US Capitol

  26. Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf

    The English Renaissance poet whose reputation at court was ruined by her writing

  27. Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf

    The English Renaissance poet whose reputation at court was ruined by her writing.

  28. Lady Macbeth

    From Kurosawa and Shostakovich to Zinnie Harris. New takes on the Scottish play.

  29. Lady Antonia Fraser

    Rana Mitter talks to the author about her life & the art of writing historical biography.

  30. Labour, work and productivity

    Anne McElvoy and guests discuss labour in terms of both work and childbirth

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