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Revisit Rashōmon
Who can you trust? That's the question posed in Rashōmon. In today's programme Rana Mitter's guests David Peace, Natasha Pulley, Yuna Tasaka and Jasp…
4 years, 9 months ago
Bette Davis
A spinster dominated by her mother in Now Voyager (1942), a strong-willed Southern belle in Jezebel (1938) which won her an Academy award for best ac…
4 years, 9 months ago
Green Thinking: Food
Climate Change is expected to continue disrupting food production and consumption. Over recent years pressures have intensified on everyone, from tho…
4 years, 9 months ago
Connecting with nature
Music from Orkney thunderstorms, dog walks in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park that have inspired a set of tiles, essays about the seasons from a diverse…
4 years, 9 months ago
Alain Robbe-Grillet
A "cubist" story - with a plot and timeline broken up and repetitive descriptions of objects, like a painting by Picasso, is one way in which the Fre…
4 years, 9 months ago
Green Thinking: Weather
With extreme weather events expected to become more frequent in the future, are there any lessons we can learn from the past? Environmental historian…
4 years, 9 months ago
Breathe
Lisa Mullen is joined by Imani Jacqueline Brown of Forensic Architecture, whose exhibition for the Manchester International Festival explores the lin…
4 years, 9 months ago
Green Thinking: Festivals
Festivals are a key part of our culture and economy, but traditionally they’ve had a big ecological footprint. Festivals attendees have long been hea…
4 years, 9 months ago
Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence
Lawrence's dad was a butty - a contractor who put together a team to mine coal for an agreed price. His 1913 novel Sons and Lovers drew on this herit…
4 years, 9 months ago
Mining, Coal and DH Lawrence
Lawrence's dad was a butty - a contractor who put together a team to mine coal for an agreed price. His 1913 novel Sons and Lovers drew on this herit…
4 years, 9 months ago