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Audrey Hepburn
Matthew Sweet marks the 30th anniversary of the death of this icon of film and fashion who was also an EGOT (winner of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and To…
2 years, 11 months ago
Higher Education for women and working class students
Over the last two hundred years, working class and women students, have found a place insides universities. Anne McElvoy hears about some of the stor…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Wife of Bath
Chaucer's widow and clothmaker is one of three characters given a longer confessional voice than other pilgrims in his Canterbury Tales and she uses …
2 years, 11 months ago
New Thinking: Language Loss and revival
A language is a window onto a culture, history and way of life. So what do we lose when a community stops speaking the language of its ancestors? Joh…
3 years ago
Anna Kavan
Asylum and psychiatric institutions, obsession and heroin, and imagining a new self are explored in the writing of Anna Kavan (1901-1968). With the r…
3 years ago
Phillis Wheatley
In her short life, the 18th century African American woman, Phillis Wheatley was a slave, a prodigy, a poet and a celebrity. As a child, she was kid…
3 years ago
Katherine Mansfield & Mavis Gallant
Insecurity, sexuality and bliss are amongst the topics explored in the short stories of Katherine Mansfield (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923). Havin…
3 years ago
Amílcar Cabral
The anti-colonial leader killed 50 years ago (20th January) was a poet, influenced by Marxism and led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and t…
3 years ago
Wilkie Collins & disability
A blind woman who temporarily regains her sight is the heroine of Wilkie Collins’ 1872 novel Poor Miss Finch. Matthew Sweet is joined by Clare Walker…
3 years ago
1922: Wimbledon and tennis fashions
How tennis stars developed in the 1920s. Historian David Berry and poet Matt Harvey talk to Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough about Centre Court, its ope…
3 years ago