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Revisit: Antarctica - testing ground for the human species
Two hundred years ago, Antarctica was discovered by Russian explorers and throughout this year the the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust is marking that an…
5 years, 10 months ago
New Thinking: Refugees
What are the best shelters? the right language? how does our view of hosting families change if we look at refugee self help schemes and experiences …
5 years, 10 months ago
The future of theatre debate
Can our theatrical landscape survive financially, and how might it need to creatively adapt to survive post pandemic? As part of the Lockdown Theatre…
5 years, 10 months ago
Failure and female friendship
How do you cope with a sense of failure? Michèle Roberts has been Booker shortlisted and has 12 novels under her belt but her latest book is a clear …
5 years, 10 months ago
Dickens
Mathew Sweet with Linda Grant, Laurence Scott & Lucy Whitehead. Dickens died on June 9th 1870. In 1948, the critic FR Leavis published the Great Trad…
5 years, 10 months ago
New Thinking: Tackling Modern Slavery
Naomi Paxton looks at the impact of the 2015 Modern Slavery Act, talking to researchers Katarina Schwarz and Alicia Kidd who are trying to measure an…
5 years, 10 months ago
Robin Askwith
Robin Askwith experienced isolation as a child with polio. In a conversation with Matthew Sweet, he reflects on a career running from the Confessions…
5 years, 10 months ago
Revisit: Tokyo Story
Actor Richard Wilson, Professor Naoko Shimazu and film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh join Rana Mitter to look at this cinematic classic which was one of…
5 years, 10 months ago
Revisit: Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has written about Auden, Dostoevsky and tragedy. At Hay Festival he talks to poet Simon Armitage about…
5 years, 10 months ago
Sarah Perry
Matthew Sweet talks to author Sarah Perry about her gothic imagination, writing about religion, rationalism and disease in novels including The Essex…
5 years, 11 months ago