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Greek myth, goddesses and art
Greek goddesses are the focus of Natalie Haynes' most recent book. She joins Ian Collins, curator of an exhibition at Pallant House celebrating the p…
2 years, 4 months ago
Prize Winners 2023
Cultural revolution memories, European resistance in occupied Poland and France and early attempts to establish trade with Mughal leaders in India ar…
2 years, 4 months ago
Harry Belafonte
Popularising calypso music, performing with Sinatra's Rat pack, Nana Mouskouri, Miriam Makeba and Charlie Parker, starring in films including Otto Pr…
2 years, 4 months ago
Margaret Cavendish
Scientist, novelist, poet, philosopher, feminist, it's 400 years since the birth of Margaret Cavendish. An extraordinary character in many ways - she…
2 years, 4 months ago
Narnia and CS Lewis
Sixty years after the death of C. S. Lewis's, his best known work, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, is still for many a childhood favourite and …
2 years, 4 months ago
Humboldt, soil, gardens and Frank Walter
7th Prince of the West Indies was the title that Frank Walter gave himself. An artist who created over 5,000 paintings, 1,000 drawings, 600 sculpture…
2 years, 4 months ago
New Thinking: Disability in Music and Theatre
When Hugh Jackman starred in the 2022 revival of ‘The Music Man’, he was taking on a classic Broadway musical with a little known connection to disab…
2 years, 4 months ago
Kadare, Gospodinov, Kafka and Dickens
The Palace of Dreams is a novel from 1981 that is ostensibly set in the 19th century Ottoman empire, but the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare cleverly s…
2 years, 4 months ago
Libraries
The Great Library of Alexandria had a mission to collect every book in the world. In attempting to do so it created the foundations for the systems a…
2 years, 4 months ago
Lorca
Women in the villages of Spain and the repression and passions of five daughters are at the heart of Lorca's last play the House of Bernarda Alba, co…
2 years, 4 months ago