Category: public talks

Guest appearance on The Book Club Review Podcast

Post author By Elizabeth Eva Leach
Post date October 26, 2025

I’ve been a Patreon member of the Book Club Review for a while, finding its various chat feeds a very wholesome alternative to the toxicities of most social media these days. The other members have great suggestions for what to read and the whole group is exceptionally engaged while being tolerant of (and even interested in) a diversity of views about what we’re all reading.

The host of the podcast for this feed, Kate, kindly invited me on to an episode about the Booker prize longlist, to discuss with her and her regular guest Phil the books that made the longlist but not the shortlist. Here’s a link to the resulting episode.

If, like me, you’re kinda done with open social media apps and are looking instead to join a kind community of readers, consider joining The Book Club Review!

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Hear me talk about Medieval Sex Lives

Post author By Elizabeth Eva Leach
Post date February 14, 2025

I was interviewed by Danièle Cybulskie for an episode of The Medieval Podcast, just in time for Valentine’s Day. The audio for this episode is here.

Tags 13thC, 14thC, manuscripts, medieval, medieval song, Middle Ages, musicology, song, Songs

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I talk Machaut on BBC Radio 3

Post author By Elizabeth Eva Leach
Post date October 2, 2023
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This week, the Early Music Show on Radio 3 broadcast an hour-long programme about Guillaume de Machaut. David Gallagher devised the programme after reading my book and my colleague Dr Uri Smilansky joined me in fielding questions from Lucy Skeaping to give an introduction to Machaut and some of his music. The programme is available (in the UK at least): here (starts 2’2” into the track).

Tags 14thC, Machaut, manuscripts, medieval, medieval song, Middle Ages, musicology, Songs

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Performance workshop for late-medieval song

Post author By Elizabeth Eva Leach
Post date July 12, 2019
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Last month (June 2019), I took part in a two-day performance workshop organised by Joseph W. Mason and attended by various other people I’ve worked with over the past decade or so. I introduced and advised on performances of a song by Blondel de Nesle (people who have heard me sing will be happy to hear that I delegated that task to others far better qualified!). Joe has written an excellent account of the entire event, obviating the need for me to do so here. I refer you enthusiastically to his blogpost, which has embedded audio-visual footage of the public concert that resulted. Enjoy!