David talks to Mark Ford and Seamus Perry, hosts of the LRB’s Close Readings poetry podcast, about what makes a great political... more

This week we check back in with Gary Gerstle to discuss what’s been happening in American politics after a tumultuous... more

Our series concludes with a musical: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s wildly popular and increasingly controversial Hamilton (2015). What does it get right and what does... more

The penultimate episode in our fictions series is about Curtis Sittenfeld’s American Wife (2008), which re-imagines the life of First Lady Laura... more

Our political fictions series returns with Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty (2004), which is set between Thatcher’s two dominant general election... more

To wrap up our series David and Robert attempt some instant history on the election result that’s just happened: in... more

For election day, David and Robert discuss the previous general election in December 2019, which saw Boris Johnson win a... more

In this extra episode for election week David talks to historian Robert Saunders about the last great Labour landslide of 1997,... more

Today’s pivotal UK election is the one that brought Margaret Thatcher to Downing Street in 1979. David talks to historian... more

In today’s episode on pivotal UK elections David talks to historian Robert Saunders about the first great Labour landslide of... more