Revisit: Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has written about Auden, Dostoevsky and tragedy. At Hay Festival he talks to poet Simon Armitage about the imprint of landscapes in Yorkshire, West Wales...
28 Mai 202044min
Sarah Perry
Matthew Sweet talks to author Sarah Perry about her gothic imagination, writing about religion, rationalism and disease in novels including The Essex Serpent, After Me Comes The Flood and Melmoth. Rec...
27 Mai 202055min
Revisit: My Body Clock is Broken
Jay Griffiths, Vincent Deary, Louise Robinson and Matthew Smith discuss our mental health.How does depression affect our sense of time and the rhythms of daily life? Our body clocks have long been see...
21 Mai 202043min
Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera. Jarman's Garden
Authors Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera are Fellows of the Royal Literature Society who signed the Register on the same day. In the first of a series of conversations with writers who would have been ...
21 Mai 202045min
Kindness
Rutger Bregman challenges ideas about the selfish gene, and survival of the fittest with stories of human co-operation and kindness as he publishes a book called Human Kind - A Hopeful History. Plus i...
20 Mai 202045min
The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: David Abulafia, Hallie Rubenhold, Prashant Kidambi
From Indian cricket, a survey of the oceans to the women killed by Jack the Ripper: Rana Mitter with the second set of shortlisted authors for the history writing prize.David Abulafia The Boundless Se...
18 Mai 202045min
Revisit: 2019 Wolfson History Prize Discussion
From classical birds to Nazi legacies, Oscar Wilde to Queen Victoria in India, early building to maritime trading: Rana Mitter and an audience at the British Academy debate history writing and hear fr...
14 Mai 202044min
The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: Toby Green, Marion Turner, John Barton
New takes on Chaucer, the Bible and African trading - Rana Mitter presents the first of 2 prograrmmes featuring 3 of the historians shortlisted for this year's history writing prize.Marion Turner has ...
13 Mai 202043min
