The TLS Podcast

May has flown by — here's a listen back at some of the conversations we've had this month on The TLS Podcast.

We hear from Merlin Holland on the afterlife of his grandfather Oscar Wilde, David Horspool on the luscious world of the lido, Samantha Ellis on Charlotte Brontë's relationship with material reality, and Dinah Birch finds solace in letters and diaries from the past.

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This week, Dinah Birch finds solace in letters and diaries from the past, whether they be joyous, heartbreaking or down-to-earth; John Talbot reads us his poem of a very specific corner of London.

A Literary Letter for Every Day of the Year, edited by Liz Ison
The Writer’s Room: The hidden worlds that shape the books we love by Katie da Cunha Lewin
Diaries of Note: 366 lives, one day at a time, edited by Shaun Usher

St Petersburgh Mews, W2, a poem by John Talbot

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This week, David Streitfeld takes us to Earthsea and the wonderful imagination of Ursula K. Le Guin; and Samantha Ellis on Charlotte Brontë's relationship with material reality.

'The Word for World: The maps of Ursula K. Le Guin', edited by So Mayer and Sarah Shin
'Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand', by Ursula K. Le Guin
'Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats'
'So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018'
'A Larger Reality', edited by Conner Bouchard-Roberts
'Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes', by Eleanor Houghton

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Here is our exclusive conversation with Ed Vulliamy in full as he gives us a look at the letters between his Great-Aunt Gladys and Ezra Pound.

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This week, Ed Vulliamy gives us an exclusive look at the letters between his Great-Aunt Gladys and Ezra Pound; and David Horspool dips a toe into the luscious world of the lido.

'Lido Land: How Britain Learned to Make a Splash', by Tom Fort

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