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Watch events, interviews and films from the LRB.

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  David Runciman: David Runciman looks back at 2016, with some help from Alexis de Tocqueville.
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  Ian Gilmour: In 1998, the MP Ian Gilmour wrote about Heathrow. Following the government’s approval of a third runway at the airport, his reflections bear repeating.
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  Marina Warner: Marina Warner explains why her mother’s shoes are definitely brogues.
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  Nicholas Penny: ‘Even scales are not lacking, so you can daily ascertain your own weight - a favourite hobby of the English.’ Nicholas Penny looks through the letters of Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau.
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  Steven Rose: Steven Rose describes the experiments behind epigenetics.
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  Matthew Bevis: Matthew Bevis on simplicity in Stevie Smith’s poetry and drawings.
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  Rosemary Hill: Rosemary Hill on why the Dowager Countess asks a reasonable question in Downton Abbey.
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  The Making of the LRB: Follow an issue of the London Review of Books as it travels for the editors’ floor to your front door.
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  Jeremy Harding: Jeremy Harding on Seydou Keïta and the theatre of aspiration.
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  Andrew O’Hagan: Andrew O’Hagan on why the Satoshi Nakamoto ‘proof package’ failed.
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  James Meek: James Meek on the decline of Britain’s fishing industry.
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  Seymour M. Hersh: Seymour Hersh talks to Christian Lorentzen about his pieces for the LRB.
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  Charles Hope: Charles Hope on Giorgione, ‘a sort of Venetian counterpart to Leonardo’.
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  Naomi Klein: Naomi Klein examines how Edward Said’s ideas of racial hierarchy, including Orientalism, have long been the silent partners to climate change.
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  22 April 2016 John Lanchester: John Lanchester on bitcoin and the nature of money.
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  Colm Tóibín: Colm Tóibín discusses his essay on the Easter 1916 rebellion.
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  Colm Tóibín: Colm Tóibín on the story of Easter 1916.
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  Julian Bell: Julian Bell on Delacroix and his heirs.
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  Frances Stonor Saunders: Frances Stonor Saunders on the crossing of borders.
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  James Meek: James Meek asks how, in a time of austerity economics, we define the robber and the robbed.
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  Andrew O’Hagan: Andrew O’Hagan looks back at Samuel Pepys’s infuriating journey to work, and how the modern-day Crossrail development has made Oxford Street even more perilous for pedestrians.
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  Bee Wilson: Bee Wilson discusses Alma Mahler’s life, music, relationships and anti-semitism.
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  Adam Shatz: Adam Shatz discusses his review of Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’, and reflects on the attitudes towards Muslims in France.
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  Anne Diebel: Anne Diebel discusses Henry James’s relationship with The Yellow Book in the 1890s.
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  Keith Gessen: Keith Gessen reflects on his reports on the Ukraine crisis from opposing sides of the conflict, in Odessa and Donetsk.
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  James Meek: James Meek reports from Grimsby before the 2015 general election.
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  Marina Warner: In her 2015 Winter Lecture, Marina Warner shows how higher education in the UK has been betrayed.
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  Adam Phillips: In his 2015 Winter Lecture, Adam Philips reflects on the ways we hate ourselves.
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  23 January 2015 Germany’s Sense of Itself and the World’s Sense of Germany: Franziska Augstein, Norbert Röttgen, Neal Ascherson and Christopher Clark discuss how Germany sees itself and how the world sees it. Chaired by Nicholas Spice.
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  Jacqueline Rose: Jacqueline Rose discusses Sylvia Plath, feminism, Proust, psychoanalysis, Zionism, the Middle East conflict, Jewish identity and more with Justin Clemens, co-editor (wtih Ben Naparstek) of the Jacqueline Rose Reader.
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  Will Self: Will Self visits Prague for a walking tour in search of Franz Kafka’s genius loci.
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  Will Self: Will Self talks to Dr Anthea Bell, Dr Joyce Crick, Dr Karen Seago and Professor Amanda Hopkinson about the complexities of Franz Kafka’s German.
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  15 June 2011 Alan Bennett: In a 2011 Primrose Hill Lecture, Alan Bennett talks about what public libraries, now under threat, have meant to him.
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  7 February 2011 Judith Butler: Judith Butler asks Who Owns Kafka? in one of the LRB’s 2011 Winter Lectures.
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  24 April 2010 The Author in the Age of the Internet: John Lanchester, Nicholas Spice, Colm Tóibín, Mary-Kay Wilmers and James Wood discuss the way technology is changing the stories we can tell.
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  21 April 2010 Jacqueline Rose: Jacqueline Rose considers the Dreyfus affair and the meaning of Jewish identity.
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  19 April 2010 Tariq Ali: Tariq Ali explains why the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable.
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  1 February 2010 Neil MacGregor: Neil MacGregor on the purpose and politics of the British Museum.