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Making Your Voice Heard
Iranian women using song to protest and whose voices do we pay attention to ? On International Women's Day, Shahidha Bari hosts a conversation with t…
2 years, 10 months ago
Anarchism and David Graeber
Bullshit jobs, Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value, Debt: The First 5000 Years: the titles of some of David Graeber's books give a sense of his…
2 years, 10 months ago
Dom Sylvester Houédard
The monk and poet Dom Sylvester Houédard (1924-92) used his Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter to fuse art and writing in concrete poetry. Born in 1924 h…
2 years, 10 months ago
Sesame Street and Soviet culture
Muppets in Moscow is Natasha Lance Rogoff's account of launching a Russian version of the American tv series Sesame Street. If a single announcer sup…
2 years, 10 months ago
Tin cans, cutlery and sewing
How sewing machines wrecked sewing. Why people mistrusted tin cans. What the invention of stainless steel had to do with the military. New research i…
2 years, 10 months ago
Ghosts of Caribbean History
Hungry Ghosts is the new novel set in colonial Trinidad by Kevin Jared Hosein. Colin Grant has written a memoir about his Jamaican family. A new art …
2 years, 10 months ago
Climate change and empire building
Haggling with Indian customs officials and presenting a mighty emperor with the distinctly unimpressive gifts of a cheap sword and a broken carriage …
2 years, 10 months ago
Phaedra, Cretan palaces and the minotaur
A new exhibition at the Ashmolean looks at the digs conducted by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos in Crete. At the National Theatre Janet McTeer stars as …
2 years, 10 months ago
Idrissa Ouédraogo
Burkinabé filmmaker Idrissa Ouédraogo (21 January 1954 – 18 February 2018) was awarded the Grand Prix at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival for his film T…
2 years, 10 months ago
Stories of Love
Proust as an agony uncle, Romeo and Juliet rewritten as 21st century Welsh teenagers in a new drama by Gary Owen, the Lesbian coming of age novel by …
2 years, 11 months ago