Podcasts are now mostly midwit slop – it’s time to tune out

It may be hard to believe, but there was a time when podcasts seemed like a wonderful idea. They were cheap enough to record ...
WVXU

What made playwright Tom Stoppard so singular

The world lost its most celebrated modern playwright over Thanksgiving weekend. Tom Stoppard made history. He won five Tony Awards - five - for best play on Broadway. He also wrote many movie ...
Yahoo

Misha Glenny is the perfect replacement for Melvyn Bragg on In Our Time

Celebrated journalist Misha Glenny has been announced as Melvyn Bragg’s replacement on In Our Time - David Levenson/Getty Images The news in September that Melvyn Bragg would be stepping down from ...
Radio World

Misha Glenny Succeeds Melvyn Bragg at “In Our Time”

I wrote recently about the departure of Melvyn Bragg as host of the BBC radio show and podcast “In Our Time,” and about my surprising feelings on hearing that news. Here’s an update. BBC Radio 4 has ...
The Forward

The Jewish playwright who inspired Tom Stoppard to write his Holocaust history

Something unexpected arrives in the middle of Tom Stoppard’s magisterial Holocaust drama Leopoldstadt: a bedroom farce. Fritz, a cavalry officer, is having an affair with the Catholic wife of Hermann ...
WBUR

Remembering playwright Tom Stoppard with biographer Hermione Lee

In this Sept. 4, 2012 file photo, British playwright Tom Stoppard poses as he arrives for the world premiere of "Anna Karenina," in London. (Sang Tan, File/AP) Tony and Oscar-winning playwright Tom ...
The Atlantic

Tom Stoppard Achieved the Impossible

“Writing a play,” Tom Stoppard told an interviewer in 1977, “is like smashing that ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to ...
Yahoo

Inside Tom Stoppard’s Hidden Lucasfilm Contributions

Legendary playwright and scriptwriter Tom Stoppard has died at the age of 88. The writer passed away on November 29, 2025, seemingly of natural causes, according to the BBC and other sources. Stoppard ...
New York Sun

Tom Stoppard, a Playwright for the Ages — and a Jewish One in His Old Age — Dies at 88

With the death of Tom Stoppard another literary giant of the 20th century exits stage right. Stoppard, a playwright of ideas if there ever was one, was 88. Born in Czechoslovakia, he was a Jewish ...
AOL

Surreal, erudite and always experimenting: Tom Stoppard was a playwright never likely to stand still

When I think of Tom Stoppard, I think first of a rather trivial moment in his 1982 play The Real Thing, when the protagonist worried about the possibility that he might be asked to appear on Desert ...
The Columbian

Tom Stoppard, sparkling playwright who won an Oscar for ‘Shakespeare In Love,’ dies at 88

FILE - Tom Stoppard poses with the award for best play for "Leopoldstadt" in the press room at the 76th annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 11, 2023, at the Radio Hotel in New York. (Photo by Evan ...