Revisit Slavery Stories, William Melvyn Kelley & Esi Edugyan
New research on slavery with historians Christienna Fryar, Kevin Waite, and Andrea Livesey. A Different Drummer was the debut novel of Kelley - first published when he was 24. Compared to William Fau...
18 Aug 201943min
Revisit Napoleon in Fact and Fiction
From Napoleon impersonators, caricature and ballads, to a play which asks what if he didn't die in exile - presenter Anne McElvoy is joined by actor and director Kathryn Hunter, biographer Michael Bro...
15 Aug 201942min
Revisit Mike Leigh in Conversation about Peterloo, politics and his Salford upbringing.
Recorded as his film Peterloo opened in cinemas and repeated now to mark this week's 200th anniversary of the Manchester massacre
14 Aug 201945min
Revisit Spike Lee in Conversation on Free Thinking
Since 1983, Spike Lee's production company has produced over 35 films. His 1989 film Do The Right Thing was nominated for Best Original Screenplay in the Academy Awards. Best Picture that year went t...
5 Aug 201945min
Book Parts and Difficulty
Matthew Sweet looks at book frontispieces, dust jackets, footnotes, indexes and marginalia with Dennis Duncan, and explores a research project investigating difficulty in culture, with Professor Sarah...
19 Jul 201946min
New angles on post-war Germany and Austria
Anne McElvoy and new ways of understanding post-war Germany and Austria through history, film and literature with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam Scovell and Tom Smith. Florian Huber Promise Me Yo...
17 Jul 201945min
New Thinking: Neolithic Revelations
Hetta Howes learns that the absence of dental floss in the Neolithic era has left archaeologists with invaluable information about how our ancestors lived and where they travelled to. While piles of p...
17 Jul 201940min
Camille Paglia
Writer, feminist and author of such books as Sexual Personae and Provocations, Camille Paglia joins Philip Dodd to talk about feminism and free speech in the 21st century, and how her Italian heritage...
16 Jul 201945min
