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Childhood faces and fears
A history of orphans in Britain, fears about post war brainwashing, childrens' letters to C19 newspapers and portraits on show at Compton Verney. Ann…
7 years, 1 month ago
Empathy
Authors Max Porter, Samantha Harvey and Alisdair Benjamin discuss empathy and the role it plays in writing and reading. How does it work? Is it the s…
7 years, 1 month ago
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…
7 years, 1 month 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…
7 years, 1 month 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 …
7 years, 1 month 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…
7 years, 1 month 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…
7 years, 1 month 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…
7 years, 1 month 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…
7 years, 1 month 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…
7 years, 1 month ago