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George Szirtes, Valeria Luiselli, Jhumpa Lahiri
Valeria Luiselli talks to Laurence Scott about the desert border between Mexico and USA & capturing the sound, history and contemporary politics in h…
6 years, 9 months ago
Partition, colonial power and the voices of C16th women
Artist Hew Locke and historians Suzannah Lipscomb, Aanchal Malhotra & Anindya Raychaudhuri talk to Rana Mitter about using objects and archives to cr…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Council Estate in Culture
Painter George Shaw, crime writer Dreda Say Mitchell and drama expert Katie Beswick join Matthew Sweet to look at depictions of estate living - from …
6 years, 9 months ago
Is British Culture Getting Wierder?
Gazelle Twin (Elizabeth Bernholz), Julia Bardsley, Hannah Catherine Jones, Luke Turner & William Fowler join Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough and an audi…
6 years, 9 months ago
Women, relationships and the law past and present
Lying about a sexual attack, resisting parental pressures to marry, using the law to fight for inheritance and divorce. Shahidha Bari talks to the fi…
6 years, 10 months ago
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
How self-revealing and frank should a writer be? Lara Feigel, David Aaronovitch, Melissa Benn and Xiaolu Guo join Matthew Sweet to look at the life o…
6 years, 10 months ago
David Bailey, Don McCullin
The photographers, David Bailey and Don McCullin, came to prominence in the 1960s but their pictures did more than define a decade. Don McCullin's wo…
6 years, 10 months ago
The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature.
Shahidha Bari talks to Fatimah Asghar about poetry and the Emmy nominated web series Brown Girls. We have a look at the miniatures of Nicholas Hillia…
6 years, 10 months ago
Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft
Laurence Scott, Will Self and New Generation Thinkers Lisa Mullen and Danielle Thom look at redundant features in design plus a visit to Collect: Int…
6 years, 10 months ago
Jack the Ripper and women as victims
Historian Hallie Rubenhold reveals the previously untold stories of the five women killed by the Ripper and challenges the myths that have grown up a…
6 years, 10 months ago