Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse
What connects a "double elephant" sized map, an academy of dissenters and Daniel Defoe? Shahidha Bari makes a virtual visit to the University of Derby's hub for the Being Human Festival 2020. Today th...
12 Nov 202045min
The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020
What does it mean to make art to commemorate histories of conflict? Anne McElvoy's guests are artists Es Devlin and Machiko Weston, Art Fund director Jenny Waldman, chair of the Fourth Plinth Commissi...
11 Nov 202044min
Charity shop history, our relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the history and ideas behind the charity shop, our relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters - aspects of November's Being Human Festival.Matthew talks to res...
10 Nov 202045min
Billy Wilder
Mr Wilder & Me is the title of the new novel from Jonathan Coe, who won the Costa Prize for his book Middle England. He is one of Matthew Sweet's guests in a programme exploring the life and work of t...
5 Nov 202045min
New Thinking: Depicting disability in history and culture
This November sees the 25th anniversary of the UK Disability Discrimination Act. As we consider what contemporary progress has been made we'll uncover the long history of disabled people’s political a...
4 Nov 202043min
War in fact and fiction
From East Africa to Arabia, the First World War to Mozambique, Rana Mitter discusses the impact of war on society and culture. Margaret MacMillan's most recent book is called War: How Conflict Shaped ...
3 Nov 202044min
Thinking about audiences in a time of pandemic
From online dance, pavement performances of plays, and the part played by audiences in Greek theatres and Shakespeare's Globe - how is performance adapting in the Covid era, and how are we rethinking ...
29 Okt 202045min
Individualism and Community
From carers and refugees, New Deal America in the 30s back to Enlightenment values - Anne McElvoy explores the intersections between community and the individual, care and conscience with: Robert D. P...
29 Okt 202045min
