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Refreshingly unfettered: LRB Podcast's Close Readings on Patricia Highsmith

10 April 2021 9:00 am

I’d forgotten what a rich and deep and characterful voice John le Carré had. Listening to author and lawyer Philippe…

Why be so frightened of Enoch Powell’s speech now?

21 April 2018 9:00 am

It was a provocative decision by the producers of Archive on 4, 50 Years On: Rivers of Blood (Nathan Gower…

Agincourt was neither necessary, nor great. We’re mad to celebrate it

29 October 2015 9:00 am

Can anyone explain this sudden enthusiasm for Agincourt, that unexpected victory over the French, now being celebrated, or rather commemorated,…

When did you last hear a news report you could trust completely? 

18 January 2014 9:00 am

‘It put a lot upon us,’ said Christopher Jefferies’s aunt. ‘The ripples went on and did not stop for a…