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Choice
The theme of this year's National Poetry Day is choice. Shahidha Bari is joined by Marvin Thompson, winner of this year's Poetry Society National Poe…
4 years, 6 months ago
New Thinking: Black British Theatre
Names to put back into the conversation about the history of British Theatre are suggested by Naomi Paxton’s guests in this New Thinking podcast. Ste…
4 years, 6 months ago
The British Academy Book Prize 2021
Racial injustice in USA; ghost towns in post-industrial Scotland; how maritime history looks from the viewpoint of Aboriginal Australians and Parsis,…
4 years, 6 months ago
Breakfast
The Full English or Continental? What does our breakfast choice signify and how has it been represented in culture? 60 years on from the opening of t…
4 years, 6 months ago
Green Thinking: Transport
Children walking to school, or cycling is the aim of a project in Manchester which one of today's guests, Dr Sarah Mander, works on. She shares her i…
4 years, 6 months ago
Order & Chaos
Archiving or hoarding - the mother in Ruth Ozeki's new novel The Book of Form and Emptiness is overwhelmed by the newspaper cuttings she is supposed …
4 years, 6 months ago
Thomas Mann
Would he condemn Hitler? That's the question novelist Thomas Mann was continually asked, after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929 followi…
4 years, 7 months ago
New Thinking: Researching a House Through Time
From a "monthly nurse" registered in the census, to local newspaper reports of strikes and industrial accidents, an auction of household goods and fu…
4 years, 7 months ago
The continuing appeal of Tudor history
Historical novelist Philippa Gregory, historians Susan Doran and Nandini Das, and literary scholar and author Adam Roberts join Matthew Sweet at the …
4 years, 7 months ago
Punk
Rebellion and causing offence: Shahidha Bari looks at punk and finds that beyond the filth and the fury of the ‘70s music scene, it provided a new vo…
4 years, 7 months ago