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Linton Kwesi Johnson
"My generation, which was the rebel generation of black youth, has changed England and in changing England we've changed ourselves" - the words of Li…
7 years, 4 months ago
Writing and Frankness
Deborah Levy, Adam Phillips and Amia Srinivasan join Matthew Sweet at the British Library for a Royal Society of Literature debate.
Why do we read? W…
7 years, 4 months ago
Are we being manipulated?
Who's pulling your strings - from advertisers and peer pressure to political campaigns and self-deception - hidden persuaders are everywhere. Journal…
7 years, 4 months ago
Is there a great divide between the arts and science?
Geneticist Sir Paul Nurse, current director of the Francis Crick Institute, and Tristram Hunt, historian and now director of the V&A, debate the impa…
7 years, 4 months ago
Natasha Gordon. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality
As her award-winning debut play, Nine Night, comes to London's West End, Natasha Gordon tells Anne about the grieving ritual that binds in the Jamaic…
7 years, 4 months ago
Mike Hodges; Dark Sweden.
The director of the 1971 film Get Carter, which starred Michael Caine, has now written his own crime novellas. Mike Hodges talks to Matthew Sweet. If…
7 years, 4 months ago
Slavery Stories
A long lost classic by William Melvin Kelley, who coined the term "woke" back in 1962 in a New York Times article, Esi Edugyan's Booker shortlisted n…
7 years, 4 months ago
Plagues, Urban Inequality and Restricted Books
Should we worry about the world getting healthier? Thomas Bollyky thinks we should. Jane Stevens Crawshaw looks at cleanliness and disease in Renaiss…
7 years, 4 months ago
Leadership: lessons from US Presidents and campaigners.
Doris Kearns Goodwin on POTUS, crisis management and ambition - from Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt through FDR and LBJ to Donald Trump. Novelist Geo…
7 years, 5 months ago
The Left Behind
Eric Kaufmann talks to Philip Dodd about white identity, immigration and populism. Plus Hungarian politics with cultural historian, Krisztina Robert,…
7 years, 5 months ago