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Lost Words and Language
New Scots words to add to the The Dictionar o the Scots Leid and a quiz about words from medieval Ireland are 2 of the Being Human Festival projects …
7 years, 1 month ago
Why are we silent when conflict is loud?
Journalist Peter Hitchens; the Rector of St James’s Church Piccadilly Lucy Winkett; performer and director Neil Bartlett and Professor Steve Brown fr…
7 years, 2 months ago
Butterflies and Bloodstains: Fragments of the First World War
Shahidha Bari is joined by cultural historian Ana Carden-Coyne, literary scholar Santanu Das, and Julia Neville, co-ordinator of the Exeter First Wor…
7 years, 2 months ago
Landmark: Journey to the End of the Night
Better than Proust -- the man who made literature out of colloquial French -- the arch chronicler of human depravity --- some of the things that are …
7 years, 2 months ago
Wilfred Owen: Poetry and Peace.
Gillian Clarke, Sabrina Mahfouz and Michael Symmons Roberts respond to the war poet Wilfred Owen with their own new commissions from the Royal Societ…
7 years, 2 months ago
Re-thinking the Human Condition
Henry Hardy has written In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure Diving For Seahorses: A Journey Through the Science of Memory by Hilde Østby…
7 years, 2 months ago
Religious divisions, puppet shows and politics.
The exile of English Catholics 450 years ago, suffragette Punch and Judy plus Shahidha Bari interviews Kapka Kassabova, the winner of a prize for fos…
7 years, 2 months ago
The Memes that Make Us Laugh
The memes that make us laugh - have we become meaner or can schadenfreude be a positive thing? Philosophical traditions around the world - can you ou…
7 years, 2 months ago
From the Gallows to the Holy Land: Medieval Pilgrimage
From a hanged man who came back to life to walk from Swansea to Hereford, to a woman who travelled from London to Evesham in a wheelbarrow, studying …
7 years, 2 months ago
The Dark and Political Messages of Kids Fiction.
Michael Rosen and Kimberley Reynolds talk to Anne McElvoy about socialist fairy tales and radicalism in books for children. Nikita Gill and Katherine…
7 years, 2 months ago