- 671
- Episodes
- 84
- Transcribed
- 227
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
About The TLS Podcast
A weekly podcast on books and culture brought to you by the writers and editors of the Times Literary Supplement.To read more, welcome to the TLS (https://www.the-tls.com/). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- The TLS
- Category
- arts · fiction · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Apr 2014
- Latest episode
- 17 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
84 of 671 episodes have a transcript.
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Manderley Revisited
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Who's in Charge
3 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Noses to the grindstone!
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Manderley Revisited
Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And then I thought, well, I'll read it and see if it makes sense on its own. And it absolutely does, doesn't it? It absolutely does. And I did reread Rebecca before digging in on The Housekeeper, and I did occasionally wonder if I had not done Tremaine any favors by doing that, because to my mind anyway, Rebecca is a note-perfect novel. George Henry Lewis, best known to us as Mr. George Eliot, said that Jane Austen was the greatest artist who ever lived if you define that by the most perfect mastery over the means to her end. And I have always really liked that definition of literary greatness. […]
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- Rohan Maitzen
- Jamie McKendrick
- Anchit Sathi
- Keggie Carew
- Mary Beard
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 182 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 45 ratings
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- Quality
- 68
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 97
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