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New Thinking: Shakespeare's Language
Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language uses corpus linguistics, a statistical method that collates data on how frequently words are used and how ofte…
6 years, 9 months ago
New Thinking: Pregnancy Puzzles
What is the metaphysical status of an unborn fetus in relation to its mother? Is it possible to know what pregnancy will mean for you before you beco…
6 years, 9 months ago
New Thinking: City Talk
Greater Manchester was created in the 1970s, bringing together areas that had previously been parts of Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cheshire, as well a…
6 years, 9 months ago
Camille Paglia
Writer, feminist and author of such books as Sexual Personae and Provocations, Camille Paglia joins Philip Dodd to talk about feminism and free speec…
6 years, 9 months ago
An insider's view of war
Ex marine and journalist Elliot Ackerman talks with Iraq war political advisor Emma Sky. A novel by Shiromi Pinto tracing the life of Sri Lankan arch…
6 years, 9 months ago
Caine Prize. Ivo van Hove. Female Desire.
The Belgian theatre director Ivo van Hove on staging Ayn Rand's ideas in The Fountainhead. 'The theme of my novel', said Ayn Rand, 'is the struggle b…
6 years, 9 months ago
Landmark: Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good
Matthew Sweet and guests look at the thought and writing of Iris Murdoch 100 years on from her birth, re-reading her work of moral philosophy she pub…
6 years, 9 months ago
Reinventing the 'Mistake on the Lake'.
Philip Dodd hosts a special programme recorded in Cleveland, Ohio. Once a booming manufacturing metropolis located on the southern shore of Lake Erie…
6 years, 9 months ago
Russia and Fear.
Rana Mitter considers fearing Russia past and present with Mark B Smith, and the way Russia controlled fears over Chernobyl. Plus Tamar Koplatadze fr…
6 years, 9 months ago
Free Thinking: Language and Belonging
Preti Taneja talks to the winner of the 2019 Dylan Thomas Prize, Guy Gunaratne, Egyptian graphic novelist Deena Mohamed, poet and broadcaster, Michae…
6 years, 9 months ago