Do I dare disturb the universe?

As Faber&Faber release an app of The Waste Land, poet Lavinia Greenlaw describes her first, determinedly un-digital, encounters with T.S. Eliot. Also, listen to Eliot reading an extract from his famously epic poem.

The Summer Book

An extract from one of our favourite books to read in summer, appropriately called The Summer Book, including an insightful and equally lovely foreword by Esther Freud.

La Ricarda

Perhaps the best example of Catalonian rationalism, La Ricarda is also a living family home. Watch an interview with two sisters who grew up there and read James Seaton’s impressions of our visit.


Russian Wonder Tales

Four podcasts of traditional Russian folk tales, translated by Post Wheeler in 1911 and read here by an amateur sitting at the fireside.

Stories In Song

An essay and playlist from Rob Young on the enduring British traditions of story-telling and folk music.

Tips About Icebergs

Two Poles: Sara Wheeler on her travels in the Arctic and Antarctic.

A Modern Myth

Owen Sheers describes how he made an ancient myth modern, and reads from his resulting novella White Ravens.


Hannah Barry Gallery

Nancy Durrant tells the remarkable story of Hannah Barry, her eponymous gallery and their heartening rise.

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