This week, Roy Foster introduces us to a Devonshire debutante turned IRA terrorist, and Emile Chabal explains how Marine Le Pen created the phenomenon of ‘cat-washing'.
'Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale' by Sean O’Driscoll
'Qu’est-ce que L’actualité Politique?: Événements et Opinions au XXIe Siècle' by Luc Boltanksi and Arnaud Esquerre
'Marginal Men and Micks on the Make' by Roy Foster
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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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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