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TLS Voices

A weekly culture and ideas podcast brought to you by the Times Literary Supplement.

Episodes

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Manderley Revisited

This week, Rohan Maitzen on Rose Tremain's reimagining of Rebecca, and a new way of seeing the terrifying Mrs Danvers; and Jamie McKendrick...

35:15Sep 17, 2026

Who's in Charge

This week, Anchit Sathi asks what an "author" is in the age of AI; and Keggie Carew on the world of symbiotic slime and friendly fungi. 'Tog...

47:32Sep 10, 2026

Noses to the grindstone!

This week, Mary Beard gives us the inside track on what it's like to be a Booker Prize judge; and Russell Williams guides us through the hig...

51:23Sep 3, 2026

Lines of beauty

This week, we look back at the poets who've shared their work with us this year. Produced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...

28:48Aug 27, 2026

Chill out!

This week, we look back at some of the year's highlights, and illuminating conversations about rest, relaxation and reading with Emily Herri...

45:22Aug 20, 2026

Summer Games

This week, we look back at some of the year's highlights, and illuminating conversations with Joanna Kavenna and Nick Enfield. Produced by C...

1:02:48Aug 13, 2026

A wine-dark Western?

This week, A. E. Stallings takes stock of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, a “thrilling combination of seemingly opposite tendencies”; and Sam R...

32:46Aug 6, 2026

July Highlights

Before we turn the page on July, here's a look back at some of the conversations from this month's episodes on The TLS Podcast. In this mont...

27:30Aug 2, 2026

Moving Pictures

This week, we meditate on childhood memories with TLS Ackerley Prize-winner Geoff Dyer; and Ben Street on the tricky business of artists at...

47:56Jul 30, 2026

Earthing Emily

This week, Claire Harman explores the self-possession and vigour of the youngest of the Brontë clan; and Lily Herd on musical brothers at wa...

48:44Jul 23, 2026

The Art of Chaos

This week, Carrie Cracknell joins us to talk about the delights and challenges of directing Tom Stoppard's Arcadia; and Hirsh Sawhney on the...

46:47Jul 16, 2026

Economies of Scale

This week, Scarlett Baron puzzles over an attempt to cut Joyce down to size; and Ian Sansom on the sobering realities of balancing the books...

45:53Jul 9, 2026

Beach bonanza!

This week, Toby Lichtig joins us to mull over what TLS writers are reading this summer; and Hannah Lowe reads a new poem with a botanical th...

44:41Jul 2, 2026

Toby Lichtig in conversation with Nigel Planer

This week, we continue to enjoy festival season as we listen to Toby Lichtig's conversation with Nigel Planer live from the Hay Festival. Pr...

46:42Jun 25, 2026

Live From the Hay Festival: Toby talks to Colm Tóibín

This week, we join Toby live from the Hay Festival where he talks to Colm Tóibín where they discuss exile and return, secrets and evasion, t...

46:06Jun 18, 2026

Live From the European Writers' Festival with Toby Lichtig

This week, we join Toby live from the European Writer's Festival where he spoke to novelists Beatriz Serrano and Sulaiman Addonia. Produced...

57:26Jun 11, 2026

Live From the Hay Festival

This week, join us live from Hay Festival. Produced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

39:55Jun 4, 2026

May Highlights

May has flown by — here's a listen back at some of the conversations we've had this month on The TLS Podcast. We hear from Merlin Holland on...

19:49May 31, 2026

Antidotes to doomscrolling

This week, Dinah Birch finds solace in letters and diaries from the past, whether they be joyous, heartbreaking or down-to-earth; John Talbo...

35:59May 28, 2026

Fabrications

This week, David Streitfeld takes us to Earthsea and the wonderful imagination of Ursula K. Le Guin; and Samantha Ellis on Charlotte Brontë'...

53:24May 21, 2026