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The Unsaid
Sarah Moss is a novelist and Professor at the University of Warwick. Her most recent book Ghost Wall articulates the tangled space of love, abuse and…
7 years ago
Should Salman Rushdie Live and Let Die ?
You are a liberal who opposes art being banned. But would a movie that calls for you to be killed change your view of censorship? This was the quanda…
7 years ago
The Way We Used To Feel
Can we ever really know the feelings of byegone generations? Author and TV historian Tracy Borman shares the clues we have to the emotional lives of …
7 years ago
Who Wrote Animal Farm?
Was George Orwell’s wife his forgotten collaborator on one of the most famous books in the world? Lisa Mullen takes a new look at Animal Farm from th…
7 years ago
How They Manipulate Our Emotions
According to Madmen’s ad executive Don Draper, “what you call love was invented by guys like me… to sell nylons.” So how does advertising and gaming …
7 years ago
Start the Week gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival
Harriet Shawcross is a film-maker whose first book Unspeakable reflects on how, as a teenager, she stopped speaking at school for almost a year, comm…
7 years ago
The Emotion of Now
Matthew Sweet and a panel of experts stand-up for their emotion of choice in a debate about the most pertinent emotion for understanding Britain toda…
7 years ago
Marble, Muscle and Manly Bodies in the 18th Century
What was more important in the construction of an eighteenth-century man’s body: the dumbbell or the dumbwaiter? Who had the most enviable body shape…
7 years ago
Healthy Eating Edwardian Style
Elsa Richardson uncovers the early history of the wellbeing industry and introduces Eustace Hamilton Miles, a diet guru who made his name selling hea…
7 years ago
'Calm Down Dear' - How Angry Should Politics Get?
What does it mean to feel that your political position is righteous? At a time of rising tempers among electorates, should we all “calm down - or har…
7 years ago