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Female power and influence past and present
Kamila Shamsie's new novel Best of Friends follows two women from Pakistan who take different route to power. Rona Munro's new plays explore the cour…
3 years, 3 months ago
My Neighbour Totoro
A world of sprites and spirits encountered by childhood sisters in the 1988 animated feature film by Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) and Studio Ghibli…
3 years, 3 months ago
John Cowper Powys
With their casts of outsiders, deviants and miscreants, the novels of John Cowper Powys explore where meaning can be found in a world without God. Ve…
3 years, 3 months ago
Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance
From a farming family in Jamaica to travelling in Europe and Northern Africa, the writer Claude McKay became a key figure in the artistic movement of…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ibsen
The individual versus the masses is at the heart of Enemy of the People. A bank manager speculating with his customers' money is the story told in Jo…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Black Country - past and present
Matthew Sweet and guests explore the roots and resonance of "the Black Country" region
3 years, 3 months ago
The Black Country - past and present
Matthew Sweet and guests explore the roots and resonance of "The Black Country" region
3 years, 3 months ago
The Normans
Ruthless mercenaries who happened to be very good at PR or a dynamic force in Medieval European politics? Rana Mitter and guests Judith Green and Ele…
3 years, 3 months ago
Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales
Ian McEwan's new novel Lessons sets a relationship against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis and the fall of the wall in Berlin. Researcher an…
3 years, 3 months ago
Immortality
Karel Čapek's 1922 play The Makropulos Affair about a famous singer who has lived for over 300 years was adapted into an opera by the composer Leoš J…
3 years, 3 months ago