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Who’s afraid of realism? ‘Voyage in the Dark’ by Jean Rhys

June 25, 2026 10:44am 20 min

In ‘A Room of One’s Own’, Virginia Woolf writes about how radical it feels to read the sentences: ‘Chloe liked Olivia. They shared a laboratory together…’. Woolf probably didn’t know the work of her contemporary Jean Rhy...

London Revisited: Shakespeare’s City

June 18, 2026 10:30am 17 min

When Thomas Platter, a Swiss tourist, went to see ‘Julius Caesar’ at the Globe Theatre in 1599, it wasn’t Shakespeare’s language that attracted his attention but the ready availability of refreshments and the high qualit...

Narrative Poems: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

June 11, 2026 10:28am 14 min

In her diary entry for 20 November 1797, Dorothy Wordsworth describes a late afternoon walk with her brother William and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. ‘ We went eight miles in the dark,’ she wrote, ‘William and Coleridge empl...

Nature in Crisis: ‘Is a River Alive?’ by Robert Macfarlane

June 03, 2026 10:35am 14 min

The idea that a river is a living being has important legal consequences. But it also has imaginative consequences, which can, in George Eliot’s words, ‘enlarge the imagined range for self to move in’. In ‘Is a River Ali...

Who’s afraid of realism? ‘Mrs Dalloway’ by Virginia Woolf

May 27, 2026 9:12am 21 min

In August 1923, halfway through writing ‘Mrs Dalloway’, Virginia Woolf recorded a new idea in her diary: she would ‘dig out beautiful caves’ behind her characters, and ‘the caves shall connect, and each comes to daylight...

London Revisited: The Protestant Capital

May 18, 2026 9:45am 21 min

At the start of the 16th century London was still recognisably medieval, crowded within its walls, dominated by churches and monasteries and deeply tied to Catholic Europe. By the end of Henry VIII’s reign, much of that ...

What do you think of Close Readings?

May 16, 2026 12:42am 1 min

Have you got four minutes to share your feedback on Close Readings? It will help shape how we develop the podcast over the coming year. We’ve set up a short survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XCR7LQ7 Thanks for...

Narrative Poems: ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ by Robert Burns and ‘Peter Grimes’ by George Crabbe

May 13, 2026 10:22am 21 min

‘Tam o’ Shanter’ first appeared as a lengthy footnote in Francis Grose's Antiquities of Scotland (1791) after Robert Burns convinced Grose to include the ruined Alloway Kirk in his volume, and its supernatural associatio...

Nature in Crisis: 'Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth' by James Lovelock

May 04, 2026 5:00am 28 min

In ‘Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth’ (1979), James Lovelock proposed that the Earth is something like a single living organism, capable of manipulating its circumstances and the environment to suit its needs. While man...

Who’s afraid of realism? ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ by Leo Tolstoy

April 27, 2026 5:00am 23 min

In the late 1870s, shortly after the publication of Anna Karenina, Tolstoy experienced what might be described today as a midlife crisis. In his short autobiographical book A Confession, finished in 1880, he questioned w...

The Man Behind the Curtain: ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley

April 24, 2026 8:00am 35 min

Mary Shelley signed off her introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein by bidding her ‘hideous progeny go forth and prosper’. In this episode of The Man Behind the Curtain, Tom McCarthy and Thomas Jones look at the...

London Revisited: Plague, Rebellion and Guilds

April 20, 2026 9:18am 27 min

If historians of medieval London had a patron saint, it might well be Edward I. While many English monarchs chose to leave London to its own devices, Edward decided from the start of his reign in 1272 to put pressure on ...

Narrative Poems: ‘The Rape of the Lock’ by Alexander Pope

April 13, 2026 4:57am 15 min

Sometime in 1711, a twenty-year-old aristocrat, Lord Petre, snipped a lock of hair, without permission, from the head of Arabella Fermor, a celebrated beauty. The incident caused an irreconcilable rift between the two fa...

Nature in Crisis: ‘The Burning Earth’ by Sunil Amrith

April 06, 2026 5:00am 12 min

The ‘great acceleration’ is a term used to describe the dramatic surge in the 1950s of both human and earth systems indicators that marked a shift from a relatively stable planetary state to one that's characterised by i...

Who’s afraid of realism? Three stories by Anton Chekhov

March 30, 2026 5:00am 23 min

‘Instead of sheets – dirty tablecloths.’ The notebooks of Anton Chekhov are full of enigmatic observations such as this, the unexplained details that suggest a whole scene, short story or character. When asked by an acto...

London Revisited: The Medieval Capital

March 23, 2026 6:29am 24 min

When the Angles, Saxons and Jutes began settling across England in the wake of the Roman retreat in the early fifth century, the city they found on the north bank of the Thames was hardly a city at all. Within its walls ...

Narrative Poems: ‘Paradise Lost’ (Book 9) by John Milton

March 16, 2026 8:33am 16 min

When Milton came to describe Eve’s tasting of the forbidden fruit, he knew he couldn’t rely on suspense to grip the reader. Instead, he used multiple genres and perspectives to interrogate the moral and emotional signifi...

Nature in Crisis: ‘Blue Machine’ by Helen Czerski

March 09, 2026 1:00am 15 min

In Blue Machine (2024), Helen Czerski refigures the ocean as an enormous planetary engine, converting light and heat into motion. Her book invites us to see the ocean not as an ‘absence’ but an intricate series of operat...

Who’s afraid of realism? ‘Notes from Underground’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky

March 02, 2026 5:54am 20 min

Dostoevsky’s 1864 novella doesn’t contain the descriptive detail, impersonal narration or many other features of 19th-century realism established by Flaubert. The book’s two-part structure, which starts with a 40-year-ol...

London Revisited: Mosaics, Archers and a Walled Garden

February 23, 2026 5:14am 18 min

After Roman London was hit by a catastrophic fire in about 125 AD, perhaps the result of another local revolt, it entered a new period of sophistication which saw the emergence of elaborate townhouses for its mercantile ...

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