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Writing Real Life from Brexit to Grenfell
Ali Smith, Jay Bernard and James Graham join Matthew Sweet at the British Library in a discussion organised with the Royal Society of Literature.
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6 years, 2 months ago
Landmark: The Yorkshire Feminist Winifred Holtby
Rachel Reeves MP, Hull academic Jane Thomas and New Generation Thinker Katie Cooper discuss the novel South Riding and the writing and politics of Wi…
6 years, 2 months ago
What to Believe
Rana Mitter and guests look at the history of atheism and morality. Alec Ryrie's new book 'Unbelievers: an emotional history of doubt' argues that th…
6 years, 2 months ago
New Thinking: First Encounters
Should we really be celebrating the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Cortés and European settlers in Mexico? Is this a "first encounter" - and how…
6 years, 2 months ago
Frieze Free Thinking Museums Debate
How welcome are selfies in modern art galleries and museums? What kind of labelling should be on display and should more objects be repatriated? Laur…
6 years, 2 months ago
Dictators
Matthew Sweet on Chaplin's 1941 film and rising populism today with guests including Francesca Santoro L'hoir who acted alongside Chaplin as a child …
6 years, 2 months ago
The Woolly Episode
From Sean the Sheep & Damien Hirst to a knitted bikini. Shahidha Bari with a woolly episode talks to writer and knitter Esther Rutter, shepherd Axel …
6 years, 2 months ago
2019 Booker Prize, The Power of Ancient Artefacts
Anne McElvoy talks prehistory with archaeologist Mike Pitts and artist Renee So plus critic Alex Clark gives her take on this year's Booker Prize win…
6 years, 2 months ago
East Meets West
As the British Museum opens an exhibition on orientalism Inspired by the East, Matthew Sweet's guests include Ziauddin Sardar, editor of Critical Mus…
6 years, 3 months ago
Myth making, satire and Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill's C21st Bluebeard, the fragility of a glass girl and other myths reworked in 4 new short dramas. Jen Harvie discusses the storytellin…
6 years, 3 months ago