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The LRB Podcast

572 episodes · 7 with AI analysis

The LRB Podcast brings you weekly conversations from Europe’s leading magazine of culture and ideas, hosted by Thomas Jones and Malin Hay, and featuring our fortnightly 'On Politics' podcast hosted by James Butler. From the LRB Subscribe to the LRB: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/subslrbpod Close Readings podcast: ⁠https://lrb.me/crlrbpod⁠ LRB Audiobooks: ⁠https://lrb.me/audiobookslrbpod⁠ Bags, binders and more at the LRB Store: ⁠https://lrb.me/storelrbpod⁠ Get in touch: podcasts@lrb.co.uk

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Topics · top 10

Hungarian election resultsAuthoritarian regime collapseState capture mechanismsEU structural fundsMedia control and propagandaConstitutional manipulationJudicial independenceInternational right-wing networksEconomic nationalismAnti-corruption politics

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May 7, 2026

On Politics: The Fall of Orbán, the Rise of Magyar

Hungarian election resultsAuthoritarian regime collapseState capture mechanisms
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Apr 29, 2026

James Lasdun's road trip to America's courts

American justice systemCourtroom observationSovereign citizen movement
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Apr 23, 2026

On Politics: The Pope and the President

Vatican diplomacy and papal authorityCatholic social teaching and just war theoryChristian nationalism vs traditional Catholicism
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Apr 17, 2026

The War in Lebanon

AI-driven warfareEthnic cleansing campaignsState capacity building
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Apr 8, 2026

The philosophy of Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’

Stream of consciousness narrative techniqueFeminist critique of academic philosophyAutobiographical fiction
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Feb 18, 2026

Early Modern News

Early modern European postal systemsInformation infrastructure developmentNews verification and credibility
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Feb 4, 2026

Jessica Mitford’s Handbag

Civil Rights MovementMcCarthyism and Communist SurveillanceBritish Aristocracy and Politics
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