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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, 3 months 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, 4 months ago
1922: Leisure and Sport
A new craze for body building and that distinctive figure of the 20th century, the hobbyist, are the topic of conversation as we continue our series …
3 years, 4 months ago
1922: The Hollywood Bowl
Created in a natural landscape feature, a conclave hillside, the Hollywood Bowl had already hosted religious services before its stage arrived. In 19…
3 years, 4 months ago
1922:Food fads
Virginia Woolf has a premonition of the microwave, protein bars are launched and a cookbook offers a recipe for iguana soup: New Generation Thinker J…
3 years, 4 months ago
1922: Reader's Digest
Reader’s Digest magazine is celebrating its centenary this year. In the first of a series of features looking back at cultural milestones in 1922 – t…
3 years, 4 months ago
Landladies
Louise Jameson joins Matthew Sweet to recall the women who ran the digs she stayed in as a touring actor and the landladies that she's played (includ…
3 years, 4 months ago
Bestiaries and Beyond
Are animals a human invention? What is a lama like? Do plants have sex? Was Amelia Earhart eaten by crabs? These are just some of the questions posed…
3 years, 4 months ago
Lists
The list of contributors joining Lisa Mullen: Henry Eliot, author of a book of bookish lists which details everything from the different deaths of Gr…
3 years, 4 months ago
Depicting AIDS in Drama
Russell T. Davies is joined by his friend and author of Love from the Pink Palace, Jill Nalder, to discuss their importance in one another’s lives, t…
3 years, 4 months ago