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Julian Barnes: Flaubert at 200
Julian Barnes reads his memoir about a lifetime of reading Flaubert.
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3 years, 11 months ago
Romantic History: Waterloo to the British Musem
In the final episode in our series looking at the way history was transformed in the Romantic period, Neil MacGregor joins Rosemary Hill to discuss t…
3 years, 11 months ago
Mix Tapes and Flash Cubes
Andrew O’Hagan talks to Tom about the power of defunct objects, from the life-enhancing gadgets of his childhood to Seamus Heaney’s fax machine, and …
3 years, 11 months ago
Romantic History: The Bayeux Tapestry
Who put the arrow in Harold’s eye? Why did Dick Whittington have a cat? Where did the pointed arch come from? These are all questions that the curiou…
4 years ago
What the Welsh got right
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite talks to Tom about how events in the 1960s, including the Aberfan disaster and a shift in strategy by the Welsh nation…
4 years ago
Weapons of War
Tom Stevenson talks to Thomas Jones about the situation in Ukraine, the effectiveness of some of the weapons in use, from anti-tank missiles to econo…
4 years ago
Romantic History: Balmoral
In the 1740s the Scots were invading England and the wearing of tartan was banned. By the 1850s, Queen Victoria had built her Gothic fantasy in Aberd…
4 years ago
Romantic History: Salisbury Cathedral
In the first episode of a new four-part series looking at the way history was transformed in the Romantic period, Rosemary Hill is joined by Tom Stam…
4 years, 1 month ago
Putin's Mistake
James Meek talks to Tom about the events leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, from the fall of Yanukovych to the wars in the Donbas and Nagorn…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Special Forces Fantasy
Laleh Khalili talks to Tom about the mythology of covert military operatives, through romance novels, self-help books and, more recently, the busines…
4 years, 1 month ago