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Free Thinking: Born in 1819: Ruskin, Clough and Bazalgette
The social campaigning, engineering and writing of three Victorians - art critic and philanthropist John Ruskin, poet and assistant to Florence Night…
7 years ago
Landmark: Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box
Lucy Porter, Neil Brand and David Quantick join Matthew Sweet to talk about Cric e Croc or Flip i Flap or even Dick und Doof though, if you're not It…
7 years ago
The Digital Humanities
What’s the connection between Jane Austen’s particular choice of words in an afternoon in 1812, the oldest manuscript of Beowulf, fake news in 17th c…
7 years ago
Landmark: Watership Down
An ecological fable about a perfect society which terrified children when it was first animated. Matthew Sweet reads Richard Adams' classic as a new …
7 years ago
What does game playing teach us?
University Challenge star Bobby Seagull, writer and critic Jordan Erica Webber, games consultant and researcher Dr Laura Mitchell, and British Museum…
7 years ago
Trees of Knowledge
Why Are We Here? What is a sentient being? These are questions we don't normally explore using plants but perhaps we should. Eleanor Rosamund Barracl…
7 years ago
Ice
Anne McElvoy wraps up warm for an account of life in Antarctica through prose and poetry, how the idea of the North Pole has fired the human imaginat…
7 years ago
Linton Kwesi Johnson
"My generation, which was the rebel generation of black youth, has changed England and in changing England we've changed ourselves" - the words of Li…
7 years ago
Writing and Frankness
Deborah Levy, Adam Phillips and Amia Srinivasan join Matthew Sweet at the British Library for a Royal Society of Literature debate.
Why do we read? W…
7 years ago
Are we being manipulated?
Who's pulling your strings - from advertisers and peer pressure to political campaigns and self-deception - hidden persuaders are everywhere. Journal…
7 years, 1 month ago