The TLS Podcast

February Highlights

The TLS Podcast

Show Notes

As February draws to a close, we’re taking a listen back at some of the conversations we’ve had over the past month on The TLS Podcast.

We listen back to Nick Enfield exploring the benefits of playing games, Mary Hitchman on the history of humanity's fascination with the moon, Peter Filkins, winner of the inaugural Freudenheim Translation Prize, joins us with chair of the judges Boyd Tonkin and Darra Goldstein on the hidden properties of kimchi and sourdough.

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