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Greek classics and the sea plus a pair of novels byTolstoy and Dostoevsky
Classicists Edith Hall and Barry Cunliffe explore the importance of the sea in the classical world in a discussion hosted by Rana Mitter. Pat Barker…
5 years, 5 months ago
Wole Soyinka's writing
Novelist Ben Okri, playwright Oladipo Agboluaje and academic Louisa Egbunike join Matthew Sweet to look at the influential writing of Nigerian playwr…
5 years, 5 months ago
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha
The French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has written a philosophical take on the current pandemic and what it tells us about society. He talks with …
5 years, 5 months ago
Anne Applebaum, Ingrid Bergman, Herland
Anne Applebaum's new book The Twilight of Democracy has the subtitle The failure of democracy and the parting of friends. She talks to Anne McElvoy a…
5 years, 5 months ago
Dada and the power of Nonsense
Subversion in art and writing and a project to re-imagine Dada. Curator Jade French, artist Jade Montserrat, writer Lottie Whalen and 2020 New Genera…
5 years, 5 months ago
Proms Lecture - Daniel Levitin: Music and Our Brains
Former musician and record producer Daniel Levitin is now a leading neuroscientist and best selling author. In this year marking the anniversary of t…
5 years, 5 months ago
New Thinking:Nature Writing
Gilbert White was born on July 19th 1720 at his grandfather's vicarage in Hampshire. His Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789) influence…
5 years, 5 months ago
Magic
Matthew Sweet delves into the deep history of magic, its evolution into religion and science and its continuing relevance in the 21st century. Joinin…
5 years, 6 months ago
How do we build a new masculinity ?
Artist and photographer Sunil Gupta, authors CN Lester (Trans Like Me) and Tom Shakespeare (The Sexual Politics of Disability), and Barbican curator …
5 years, 6 months ago
Egyptian Satire
Dina Rezk from the University of Reading looks at politics and the role of humour as she profiles Bassem Youssef “the Jon Stewart of Egyptian satire”…
5 years, 6 months ago