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Hilary Mantel: Royal Bodies
Hilary Mantel considers the royal body from Anne Boleyn’s ‘bosom not much raised’ to Kate Middleton’s equally modest endowment. Introduced by Neil Ma…
13 years, 1 month ago
Shakespeare: Our Contemporary? With Colin Burrow, Michael Dobson, James Shapiro, Emma Smith and Marina Warner
Colin Burrow, Michael Dobson, James Shapiro, Emma Smith and Marina Warner discuss the ways we continue to make (and occasionally unmake) Shakespeare …
13 years, 2 months ago
Alan Bennett: Diary for 2012
Alan Bennett rides in Mr Murdoch’s car and gets a review from T.S. Eliot, in these extracts from his 2012 diary.
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13 years, 3 months ago
Andrew O'Hagan: ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
Andrew O’Hagan reads 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and considers the art of terrible writing about sex.
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13 years, 8 months ago
Ahdaf Souief: Mina’s Banner and the Egyptian Revolution
In the 2012 Edward Said Lecture, Ahdaf Soueif tells the story of ‘Mina’s Banner’ and the Egyptian revolution.
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13 years, 10 months ago
Ralph Fiennes reads ‘The University Poem’ by Nabokov
Ralph Fiennes reads ‘The University Poem’, which Nabokov wrote in 1926, four years after he left Trinity College, Cambridge.
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13 years, 10 months ago
John Lanchester: Marx at 193
John Lanchester delivers his lecture writes about Karl Marx at 193.
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14 years ago
Neal Ascherson: The History and Future of Europe
Neal Ascherson discusses the competing forces of integration and nationalism throughout the history of modern Europe, and the ways in which they’ve s…
14 years ago
Alan Bennett: From his 2011 diary
Alan Bennett considers the banana skin and is mistaken for ‘another Alan’ in his Diary for 2011.
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14 years, 3 months ago
The Wonderfulness of Us
Andrew O’Hagan chaired this discussion between Linda Colley, R.W. Johnson and Tom Devine about national histories and the ways they should, and shoul…
14 years, 7 months ago