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Censorship and sex
Matthew Sweet hears from Naomi Wolf about ways in which the state interfered in the private lives of its citizens in the 19th century, resulting in a…
6 years, 11 months ago
Sebald. Anti-semitism. Carolyn Forché
The walking & photographs of WG Sebald on show in Norwich, American poet Carolyn Forché on the stranger who gave her an insider's view of politics in…
6 years, 11 months ago
Rivers, different cultures, different values
Should we widen the net of who has a say over river management and would this be better for our rivers and ultimately ourselves. What are rivers them…
6 years, 11 months ago
Free Thinking:Homi Bhabha: On Memory and Migration
With an audience at the British Library, Professor Bhabha gives a short talk and discusses ideas about nations and a postcolonial approach to politic…
6 years, 11 months ago
Rivers and geopolitics
The worlds large water infrastructure projects often result in geo-political flashpoints - Rana Mitter hears from Majed Akhter about problems from th…
6 years, 11 months ago
Sergio Leone, Kubrick, Magic & the Mind.
Matthew Sweet talks Spaghetti Westerns and Sergio Leone with Christopher Frayling and Samira Ahmed. They also look at the film worlds of Stanley Kubr…
6 years, 11 months ago
Chaucer. Bernardine Evaristo.
Anne McElvoy reads a new biography of Chaucer by Marion Turner called Chaucer: A European Life and talks to writer Bernardine Evaristo about her depi…
6 years, 11 months ago
Wolfson History Prize Discussion.
Rana Mitter and an audience at the British Academy hear from the six historians on this year's shortlist. The books are:
Building Anglo-Saxon England…
6 years, 11 months ago
Free Thinking: 1819-The American Model
Elaine Showalter, Michael Schmidt, Peter Riley and Katie McGettigan with Laurence Scott on the 19th century writers who shaped the idea of America.
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6 years, 11 months ago
Learning about love from Kierkegaard & Socrates. The Wellcome Book Prize
Kierkegaard humiliated the woman he was due to marry by publicly breaking the engagement - yet one of his most important books is a detailed analysis…
6 years, 11 months ago