Proms Plus Literary - Robert Frost
In 1914 the American poet Robert Frost published his collection 'North of Boston'. It was hailed as 'one of the most revolutionary books of modern times' by the English poet Edward Thomas. Matthew Hol...
8 Sep 201420min
Prom Plus Literary - Philip Larkin
Poets Andrew Motion and Kate Clanchy discuss the writing of Philip Larkin and his collection, 'Whitsun Weddings', which was first published 50 years ago in 1964. This programme presented by Matthew S...
8 Sep 201421min
Proms Plus Literary: Martin Amis
Novelist Martin Amis discusses 'The Zone of Interest', his 14th novel, in which he revisits the Holocaust for the first time since his controversial book, 'Time's Arrow'. This programme presented by ...
29 Aug 201421min
Free Thinking 2013 - Wombs on Legs?
From HG Wells and Margaret Atwood to Battlestar Galactica, science fiction texts and tv series have long used birth control as a metaphor for the limits on individual freedom. New Generation Thinker S...
28 Aug 201414min
Free Thinking 2013 - Ecstatic
The audience at a rock concert adoring the star; a Pentecostalist congregation praising God; an athlete reaching the pitch of performance known as "the zone" - these can all be described as feelings o...
28 Aug 201414min
Free Thinking 2013 - Language Wars
Defenders of traditional English language and grammar often present themselves as purists but New Generation Thinker John Gallagher, from Cambridge University, argues that we have always borrowed word...
27 Aug 201413min
Free Thinking 2013 - Cutting Tradition
What do recent debates among medical ethicists and lawyers over male infant circumcision reveal about the different ways we view male and female bodies? Rebecca Steinfeld, from the School of Oriental ...
26 Aug 201414min
Free Thinking 2013 - False Conception
Annie Besant promoted contraceptive advice to the Victorian working classes. In 1877 she was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act. New Generation Thinker Fern Riddell, from King's Collge Lond...
26 Aug 201412min
