How a new translation of The Iliad offers fresh insights into an ancient text

September 7 – October 14, 2023

September 8 – October 7, 2023

The Exorcist: Believer is a pale imitation of the classic horror

She would say that driving a big car on a highway crossing the American desert was like doing calligraphy in her notebooks. She said that if you look at a mountain carefully and faithfully each day, you can become its friend. And this is what happened to her. Each thing that existed in the world provoked her curiosity, and often her wonder. She was never weary and always alert, as if to be alive were in itself such a stroke of luck that nothing must be let go of. She loved wild buttercups and blood-red anemones. She was friends with the flowers too.

Born in 1925 in Beirut, Etel Adnan was a poet and an artist. (A portfolio of her work appeared in the Review in 2018.) She died in Paris in 2021. I met her nine years ago in somewhat worldly circumstances, surrounded by famous artists and important gallerists. Everyone was talking but her. She had planted herself with her back to the crowd, facing an enormous fireplace. And she watched the fire without moving. She watched it with such intensity I didn’t dare approach her. I had read some of her writing: remarkable poems, and an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist that had impressed me with her point of view on the world. Here was an artist, to be sure, but as young people say these days, “not just that.” It was this “not just” that I wanted to understand.

I first came to Etel to ask questions. Very soon I was coming back to see her, to be with her, to be in the delight of being with her.

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Marcus, Luke and Andy check in from Newcastle ahead of their clash with PSG where a chilly wind, aliens overhead and Kylian Trippier’s violent scheming should combine for a cracker on Tyneside.

There’s also loads of juicy Champions League action to discuss, as Jude Bellingham cut yet more mustard and Man United shot themselves repeatedly in the foot once again. Plus, the PGMOL Posse release some laughable audio and Marcus’ England Project takes a huge step forward.

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Why the unconventional Singing Detective, with Michael Gambon, blazed a trail

July 2 – October 8, 2023

September 8 – October 21, 2023

This episode is sponsored by TNT Sports - the exclusive home of the UEFA Champions League.

Marcus, Luke and Andy head up to St James’ Park to celebrate Champions League football returning to Newcastle, twenty years after they were last in the competition. And they’re joined by our favourite TNT Sports presenter, former Rambler and Vish’s sworn enemy: it’s only a one-off special with Jules Breach! 

We chat about how exciting it is to see European football return to the city, how Jules’ work on TNT Sports is going and the unrivalled excitement of Champions League football.

Thanks to TNT Sports for making this episode possible. This isn’t just football. This is the Champions League.

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