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Writing About Faith
In Frank Skinner's A Comedian's Prayer Book the broadcaster presents a series of prayers which read like a stand-up routine exploring questions of be…
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Churchill's reputation
Wartime saviour or the symbol of nostalgic imperialism ? David Reynolds, Priya Satia, Richard Toye and Allen Packwood join Anne McElvoy to look at th…
4 years, 9 months ago
Pleasure
As lockdowns have forced us to forgo the delights of the outside world, have we developed a taste for simple pleasures? Many have reported enjoying c…
4 years, 9 months ago
Frantz Fanon
Irrational feelings of dread, fear, and hate in a subject whose threat is often exaggerated or "phobogenesis" - one of the psychological terms explor…
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Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There
The dangerous world of an explosives factory is the setting of Inez Holden’s 1944 novel There’s No Story There. A bohemian figure who went on to writ…
4 years, 9 months ago
Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer
Drugs, sex, violence and thinking about death are at the core of the George Miles cycle of five novels. New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester draws …
4 years, 9 months ago
Syria: hope and poetry
Two years of staying inside her own home in Homs, whilst 60 per cent of her neighbourhood was turned into rubble hasn't deterred architect Marwa al-S…
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Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala
The rights of tribal people, the lives of ordinary workers and the depiction of female desire were amongst the themes explored by the writer Mahaswet…
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Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2021
From clues in paintings to colonial trade to letters sent between Australia and England; the links between a Durham based poet and India to the femal…
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Books To Make Space For On The Bookshelf: John Halifax, Gentleman
Dinah Mulock Craik achieved fame and fortune as the author of the 1856 bestselling novel John Halifax, Gentleman. New Generation Thinker Clare Walker…
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