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Late works
Geoff Dyer, Dame Sheila Hancock and Rachel Stott join Matthew Sweet to discuss the work and performance of writers, artists, athletes and musicians n…
3 years, 6 months ago
ETA Hoffmann
The German Romantic author of horror and fantasy published stories which form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, the balle…
3 years, 6 months ago
New Thinking: Waiting
Waiting is an inevitable part of life, whether it’s in the waiting room of a GP surgery or waiting for lockdown to end.
As part of the Waiting Times p…
3 years, 6 months ago
Sheffield reinvented
John Gallagher with an exploration of Sheffield's cultural history through new words, music and film.
3 years, 6 months ago
Slow Film and Ecology
Can a 40-hour film of a Massachusetts garden or a project documenting rice growing over 40 years help us to understand our planet better? Who makes a…
3 years, 7 months ago
Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922
Understanding James Joyce's eye troubles gives you a different way of reading his book Ulysses. That's the contention of Cleo Hanaway-Oakley, who sha…
3 years, 7 months ago
South African writing
Damon Galgut's novel, The Promise, explores the decline of the white Afrikaner Swart family and their failed promise to their black domestic servant.…
3 years, 7 months ago
John McGrath's Scottish Drama
Bill Paterson is a founding member of the 7:84 company established by John McGrath, his wife Elizabeth and her brother to create radical, popular the…
3 years, 7 months ago
Victorian streets
Is that strong, inescapable image of 19th century city streets in our heads the right one? It's possible that there's a gap between the realities of …
3 years, 7 months ago
The Wolfson Prize 2022
Witches, statues, God's body, the Ottomans, medieval church going and seventeenth century England as a "devil land" are the topics explored in this y…
3 years, 7 months ago