About this podcast
Close Readings is a multi-series podcast from the London Review of Books. Two contributors explore areas of literature through a selection of key works, providing an introductory grounding like no other. Listen to some episodes for free here, and extracts from our ongoing subscriber-only series. How To Subscribe In Apple Podcasts, click 'subscribe' at the top of this podcast feed to unlock the full episodes. Or for other podcast apps, sign up here: https://lrb.me/closereadings…
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Close Readings
About this podcast
Close Readings is a multi-series podcast from the London Review of Books. Two contributors explore areas of literature through a selection of key works, providing an introductory grounding like no other. Listen to some episodes for free here, and extracts from our ongoing subscriber-only series. How To Subscribe In Apple Podcasts, click 'subscribe' at the top of this podcast feed to unlock the full episodes. Or for other podcast apps, sign up here: https://lrb.me/closereadings…
Recent episodes
- Narrative Poems: ‘Childe Roland’ and ‘The Pied Piper’ by Robert Browning31 Aug · 18 min
- Nature in Crisis: ‘Lessons for Survival’ by Emily Raboteau24 Aug · 12 min
- Who’s afraid of realism? ‘Pnin’ by Vladimir Nabokov17 Aug · 24 min
- London Revisited: Pepys, Plague and Fire10 Aug · 25 min
- Narrative Poems: ‘The Eve of St Agnes’ by John Keats3 Aug · 17 min
- The Man Behind the Curtain: ‘Middlemarch’ by George Eliot2 Aug · 36 min
- Nature in Crisis: ‘Impasse’ by Roy Scranton26 Jul · 16 min
- Who’s afraid of realism? ‘Seize the Day’ by Saul Bellow20 Jul · 17 min
- London Revisited: The Road to Civil War13 Jul · 27 min
- Narrative Poems: ‘The Ruined Cottage’ and ‘Michael’ by William Wordsworth5 Jul · 17 min
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