The LRB Podcast

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On Politics: What is political writing?

October 08, 2026

In What is literature? (1948) Jean-Paul Sartre argued that writers and artists have a responsibility to engage with political and social realities. But is it still possible for writers to have political agency in a culture that instantly commodifies ideas? Lea Ypi, a professor of politics at the LSE, has called for a return to the questions behind ‘committed literature’ that emerged in the middle of the last century. She joins James to talk about the ways in which the public sphere has change...

Fascism in a time of AI

October 06, 2026

Since Trump first took office in 2016 there has been a debate on the left as to whether he and other authoritarian right-wing leaders, such as Viktor Orbán and Narendra Modi, should be described as fascist. Some have dismissed the label as rhetorical excess, while others have chosen to describe this new formation of right-wing politics as ‘post-fascist’. But, as Primo Levi wrote, ‘every age has its own fascism’, and in their recent book Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor have identified ‘end-times ...

An Alternative History of the Microphone

October 01, 2026

The first microphones were invented in the 1870s as components for telephones. By the 1930s, politicians as unalike as FDR and Hitler were using microphones as both audio devices and visual props for projecting power. The history of the microphone often focuses on its function as a technology of transmission, but as David Trotter wrote recently in the LRB, microphones ‘both receive and transmit’, and there is another tradition more concerned with listening than transmitting. In this episode, ...

Free Thinking · High booking difficulty · 10,000 - 100,000 listeners

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The LRB Podcast typically books well-known public figures. Typical guest background: University scholars, established historians, literary critics, authors and public intellectuals with recognized expertise and a strong body of published research or criticism. Common among recent guests: Published scholarly or critical books; Academic appointments at respected universities; Substantial bylines in leading literary or intellectual publications. Recent guests include Colin Burrow, Jan-Werner Müller, and Roey Sweet.

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Recent episodes cover Humanities, Literature, Literary Criticism, European Politics, and Intellectual History. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.