Podcast
The Critic Books Podcast: Edgware Road
A debut story of family mystery and intrigue — set between London, Oxford, and Karachi
Geopolitics and the invasion of Ukraine
What lessons does Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have for the study of geopolitics?
The Critic Books Podcast: Devotion
A story of love in nineteenth century Prussia and Australia
The Critic Books Podcast: Bacon in Moscow
What was it like to take Francis Bacon to the USSR?
The Great Game
Professor Jeremy Black on the 19th century cold war over Asia between Russian and Britain
The Critic Books Podcast: Burntcoat
Burntcoat was one of the first “pandemic novels” to be published in the wake of Covid-19
The Critic Books Podcast: Marianne Moore
In conversation with Heather Cass White: Moore’s editor
The Eastern Question and the origins of The Great Game
How was the balance of power maintained in the eighteenth century?
The Critic Books Podcast: Mrs Death Misses Death
Salena Godden is in conversation with Francesca Peacock
The Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars
Professor Jeremy Black discusses rising powers and two turn of the century great power conflicts