This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark are joined by TLS classics editor Mary Beard to find out what the Romans brought back from their holidays, and novelist Edward Docx is roused to righteous fury over the parlous state of the House of Commons.
‘Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman empire’s souvenirs’ by Kimberly Cassibry
’Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome’ by Maggie L. Popkin
‘Held in Contempt: What’s wrong with the House of Commons?’ by Hannah White
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Notes on 50 years of the Man Booker Prize
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
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