Podcast
The Critic Books Podcast: C J Carey’s Widowland
C J Carey speaks to Francesca Peacock about Widowland
The Critic Books Podcast: Ariadne
Francesca Peacock speaks to Jennifer Saint about her novel Ariadne
The Critic Books Podcast: The Barn
The Barn is a history of the lives, landscapes, and lost ways of an old Yorkshire farm building
Outside his bailiwick
John Bercow’s podcast is me me me, with a side order of sycophancy
London gossip, Dickensian Christmasses and experimental castles
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Robert Thicknesse, Alexander Larman and Charles Saumarez Smith
The American Civil War – could the South have won?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses how the Confederate forces hoped to overcome the superior numbers and resources of the North
The Critic Books Podcast: Heiresses
Having a fortune is not quite all it’s cracked up to be
Fast food and stolen goods
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger
The Indian Mutiny
Professor Jeremy Black on the British military presence in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Unexpected music and a crisis of theology
The Critic Narrated: Episode Six, with Sarah Ditum and David Scullion
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
Wragg must go
He should resign or be fired
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
