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Alexander the Great
King of Asia and Pharoah are two of the titles taken by Alexander, ruler of Macedonia from 336 B.C. to 323 B.C. He died aged 32 having conquered a va…
3 years, 5 months ago
New Thinking: Beowulf
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough takes a look at the latest research shaping our understanding of the great Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf. She’ll be finding …
3 years, 5 months ago
Ghostwatch
The director and writer of Ghostwatch Lesley Manning and Stephen Volk join Matthew Sweet and academic Lucy Arnold to look back at the reality–horror/…
3 years, 6 months ago
Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Empire
A pandemic, crumbling empire and new nationhood are the backdrop for Orhan Pamuk's latest novel Nights of the Plague. He talks to Rana Mitter about t…
3 years, 6 months ago
New Thinking: Dead Languages
John Gallagher discusses the latest research on the languages of the ancient world that weren't Latin and Greek. We associate places like Italy and C…
3 years, 6 months ago
Oliver Postgate
The creator of much-loved children's TV classics including The Clangers, Bagpuss and Pogles' Wood is discussed by Matthew Sweet and his guests Daniel…
3 years, 6 months ago
British Academy Book Prize 2022
Deafness and communication, writing Chinese, women as killers in Chile, German postwar history, testimony from a Swedish village and a global history…
3 years, 6 months ago
Romanticism Revisited
The ridiculous side of Romanticism, a new biopic of Emily Brontë and an exhibition about Fuseli and women are on today's agenda as Shahidha Bari is j…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022
Hong Kong, Paris and New York galleries and museums are in the spotlight as we hear the latest in a series of discussions exploring what it means to …
3 years, 6 months ago
New Thinking: Accents
How Manc are the Gallaghers? John Gallagher hears about the results of a project to map accents in the city talking to Prof Rob Drummond. In Northumb…
3 years, 6 months ago