# Food fights Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tls-podcast-319094/food-fights Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tls-podcast-319094/food-fights.md Podcast: [The TLS Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tls-podcast-319094) Published: 2026-03-26T12:29:43+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/tlsvoices/episodes/food-fights Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/tlsvoices/e/69c526b7c2759aa9b1a25987/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-tls-podcast-319094/episodes/food-fights Duration seconds: 2864 ## Resource This week, Julian Evans on two books exploring the link between food and war in Ukraine; and Lily Herd introduces this issue's In Brief reviews. 'Strong Roots: A Ukrainian family story, interrupted', by Olia Hercules 'Bread and War: A Ukrainian story of food, bravery and hope', by Felicity Spector In Brief: 'Postcards, translators and Esperanto pioneers', by Guilherme Fians, Bernhard Struck and Claire Taylor; 'Rapture of the deep', by Robert Irwin, completed by Andrew Crumey; 'Here comes the sun', by Bill McKibben; 'Queens at war', by Alison Weir; 'Interrupted journeys', by Adrian Potter; 'Literature and epistemic injustice', by Sarah Colvin; 'Invading the American canon', by Muireann Maguire; 'Nabokov and the Russian diaspora', by Bryan Karetnyk Produced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-tls-podcast-319094/episodes/food-fights/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tls-podcast-319094/food-fights.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.