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Richard Ovenden
In defence of pedantry
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Paula Byrne
What to read to understand Jane Austen
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Elizabeth Kolbert to Tom Paulin
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Kathleen Jamie
Elizabeth Kolbert’s alarm call
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Lisa O’Kelly
James Fox: ‘The crafts are always revived in times of crisis’
Thu 11 Dec 2025
Sean O’Hagan
Tom Paulin’s exile state of mind
Wed 10 Dec 2025
2025 highlights: Katy Perry in space, the Coldplay concert affair, The Salt Path, Labubus…
38 mins • S1, E12
Matthew Bishop
Lessons of the 1929 Wall Street crash
Tue 9 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
Introducing The Observer’s Sunday poem
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Luke Turner
Lament for a lost London
Sat 6 Dec 2025
Lucy Popescu
What it means to be German
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Christopher Frayling
What to read to understand vampires
Fri 5 Dec 2025
What Spotify Wrapped 2025 tells us about the streaming industry
7 mins • S1, E1249
Eimear McBride
Return to the Jon Fosse universe
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Chris Power
The Future Loves You by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Jonathan Bate
The infernal world of Christopher Marlowe
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Tom Gatti
What to read this week, from Christopher Marlowe to Joe Sacco
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Killian Fox
Joe Sacco: ‘I can’t turn away from what’s going on in Gaza’
Wed 3 Dec 2025
Spotify Wrapped 2025 and how to have good sex on film
40 mins • S1, E11