{"podcast":{"title":"The TLS Podcast","slug":"the-tls-podcast-319094","podcast_index_feed_id":319094,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/af0e16de-9e4b-419b-b090-e1fe8c56f241","website_url":"https://www.the-tls.co.uk/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/61ba0ef81a8cbec7663cf149/show-cover.png","author":"TLS Voices","episode_count":660,"summary":"A weekly podcast on books and culture brought to you by the writers and editors of the Times Literary Supplement. To read more, welcome to the TLS . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-04T22:19:22.882110+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tls-podcast-319094"},"episode":{"title":"Food fights","slug":"food-fights","published_at":"2026-03-26T12:29:43+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tls-podcast-319094/food-fights","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tls-podcast-319094","url":"https://shows.acast.com/tlsvoices/episodes/food-fights","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/tlsvoices/e/69c526b7c2759aa9b1a25987/media.mp3","summary":"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.","meta_description":"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 R…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2864,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-tls-podcast-319094/episodes/food-fights/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tls-podcast-319094/food-fights.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}