This week, we go in search of the woman who created William Brown, beloved outlaw of the suburbs; and take a look at the sporting scene in the Middle East ahead of this winter’s men’s Fifa World Cup.
‘Richmal Crompton, author of Just William: A Literary Life’ by Jane McVeigh
'Routledge Handbook of Sport in the Middle East', edited by Danyel Reiche and Paul Michael Brannagan
'The Business of the Fifa World Cup', edited by Simon Chadwick, Paul Widdop, Christos Anagnostopoulos and Daniel Parnell
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An interview with Tim Winton – a bonus episode
The wildness of Muriel Spark
Russia's blood games
Changing your mind and opening the doors
Rules of law
Jesmyn Ward’s lyrical fiction - a bonus episode
Those are pearls . . . and Michael Jackson's performative drama
Philip Roth and the translatable
The making of me
Roman emperors and football managers
BONUS: Madeline Miller on Circe
Mothers and millennials
Carlo Rovelli's time – a special episode
Why does everyone hate Nixon?
The risky art of cartooning
Culture clash
Empathy: for better, for worse
The New Elizabethans
Hyper-liberalism and the 6,000th TLS
Everyone's a winner – a bonus episode
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