Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance
From a farming family in Jamaica to travelling in Europe and Northern Africa, the writer Claude McKay became a key figure in the artistic movement of the 1920s dubbed The Harlem Renaissance. Publishin...
28 Sep 202244min
Ibsen
The individual versus the masses is at the heart of Enemy of the People. A bank manager speculating with his customers' money is the story told in John Gabriel Borkman. Lucinda Coxon and Steve Waters ...
26 Sep 202243min
The Black Country - past and present
Matthew Sweet and guests explore the roots and resonance of "the Black Country" region
23 Sep 202244min
The Black Country - past and present
Matthew Sweet and guests explore the roots and resonance of "The Black Country" region
22 Sep 202244min
The Normans
Ruthless mercenaries who happened to be very good at PR or a dynamic force in Medieval European politics? Rana Mitter and guests Judith Green and Eleanor Parker discuss the current state of scholarshi...
21 Sep 202244min
Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales
Ian McEwan's new novel Lessons sets a relationship against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis and the fall of the wall in Berlin. Researcher and artist Michael Mulvihill, from the University of ...
20 Sep 202244min
Immortality
Karel Čapek's 1922 play The Makropulos Affair about a famous singer who has lived for over 300 years was adapted into an opera by the composer Leoš Janáček and premiered in 1926. George Bernard Shaw's...
16 Sep 202244min
The Lindisfarne Gospels and new discoveries
A dig at Lindisfarne this September aims to find out more about the early Medieval monastery raided by Vikings. New Generation Thinker David Petts from Durham University shares his findings on Holy Is...
14 Sep 202245min
