The TLS Podcast

May Highlights

The TLS Podcast

Show Notes

May has flown by — here's a listen back at some of the conversations we've had this month on The TLS Podcast.

We hear from Merlin Holland on the afterlife of his grandfather Oscar Wilde, David Horspool on the luscious world of the lido, Samantha Ellis on Charlotte Brontë's relationship with material reality, and Dinah Birch finds solace in letters and diaries from the past.

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