Jewish Identity in 2020
Howard Jacobson, Bari Weiss, Hadley Freeman, and Jonathan Freedland join Matthew Sweet.
6 Maalis 202044min
Storm Jameson - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
What is a writer's duty? Katie Cooper considers Storm Jameson's campaigning for refugees, her 1940 appeal To the Conscience of the World and why her fiction fell out of favour but is now seeing a revi...
5 Maalis 202014min
Frank Ramsey
Shahidha Bari looks at the legacy of Frank Ramsey who died in 1930 aged 27, but not before doing work that changed the course of philosophy, logic, mathematics and economics. Shahidha is joined by Che...
5 Maalis 20201h 2min
New Thinking: Women in Virtual Reality
Hetta Howes learns how Sylvia Xueni Pan from Goldsmiths, University of London is using VR to do everything from training GPs not to overprescribe antibiotics to creating a groundbreaking Peaky Blinder...
5 Maalis 202045min
Anne Enright + the value of gossip
The Irish novelist Anne Enright talks to Laurence Scott about her new book Actress and being the inaugural Irish laureate, plus a discussion of gossip past and present with Emily Butterworth, Daisy Bl...
4 Maalis 202044min
Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf
Author of the first prose romance published in England in 1621, her reputation at court was ruined by her thinly veiled autobiographical writing. Visit the family home, Penshurst Place in Kent, and yo...
28 Helmi 202014min
Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulombeau argues that we should salute this woman who supported her family through her writing, who perfected sonnets about solitude before Wordsworth began writing his,...
28 Helmi 202014min
Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
The novel Miss Marjoribanks (1866) brought to life a large comic heroine who bucked 19th-century conventions. New Generation Thinker Clare Walker Gore's essay outlines the prolific writing career of M...
28 Helmi 202013min
