There's a fantastic series of podcasts on great essays by David Runciman from the London Review of Books, which aren't always the ones you'd expect given the au

There's a fantastic series of podcasts on great essays by David Runciman from the London Review of Books, which aren't always the ones you'd expect given the authors: Michel de Montaigne, "Essays": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-of-ideas/montaigne https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o... David Hume, "Of Public Credit:": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-of-ideas/hume https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o... David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-of-ideas/thoreau https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o... Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One’s Own": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-of-ideas/woolf https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o... George Orwell, "The Lion and the Unicorn": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-of-ideas/orwell https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o... Simone Weil, "Human Personality": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-of-ideas/weil https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o... James Baldwin, "Notes of a Native Son": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-of-ideas/baldwin https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o... Susan Sontag, "Against Interpretation": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-of-ideas/sontag https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o... Joan Didion, "The White Album": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-of-ideas/didion https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o... David Foster Wallace, "Up, Simba!": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-of-ideas/david-foster-wallace https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o... Umberto Eco, "Thoughts on Wikileaks": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-of-ideas/umberto-eco https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o... Ta-Nehisi Coates, "The Case for Reparations": https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-of-ideas/ta-nehisi-coates https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/history-o...