445 Episodes

  1. Patricia Lockwood on Meeting the Pope

    Published: 11/29/2023
  2. What was Orwell for?

    Published: 11/22/2023
  3. Next Year on Close Readings: Among the Ancients II

    Published: 11/18/2023
  4. Next Year on Close Readings: Human Conditions

    Published: 11/17/2023
  5. Next Year on Close Readings: On Satire

    Published: 11/16/2023
  6. The Infected Blood Scandal

    Published: 11/15/2023
  7. The Giant Crypto Fraud

    Published: 11/8/2023
  8. What is British humour anyway?

    Published: 11/1/2023
  9. Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean (sponsored)

    Published: 10/31/2023
  10. Who wrote the dictionary?

    Published: 10/25/2023
  11. War in Gaza

    Published: 10/18/2023
  12. Tom Crewe: Wrestling Days

    Published: 10/11/2023
  13. Into the Volcano

    Published: 10/4/2023
  14. What is 'woke capital'?

    Published: 9/27/2023
  15. Think of a Number

    Published: 9/20/2023
  16. Adolfo Kaminsky, Beyond Borders

    Published: 9/13/2023
  17. Fact-Checking ‘Ulysses’

    Published: 9/6/2023
  18. Amia Srinivasan: What’s it like to be an octopus?

    Published: 8/30/2023
  19. John Lanchester: The Case of Agatha Christie

    Published: 8/23/2023
  20. Terry Castle: Desperately Seeking Susan

    Published: 8/16/2023

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