Wole Soyinka's Writing

Ben Okri, Louisa Egbunike and Oladipo Agboluaje discuss Wole Soyinka's life and work.

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Piranesi and disturbing archecture

Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, is one of Matthew Sweet's guests.

• 44 mins

The Mayflower and Native American history

Sarah Churchwell, Kathryn Napier Gray and Lauren Working with Eleanor Barraclough.

• 44 mins

Family Ties and Reshaping History

From Neanderthals to Sikh warriors to the idea of weird people, three authors look at kin.

• 44 mins

Get Carter

Digging beneath the surface of the classic Brit noir film with director Mike Hodges.

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The impact of being multilingual

Discussion ahead of the European Day of Languages and International Translation Day.

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Conservatism, Philanthropy, Liberal and socialist futures

Anne McElvoy talks to Edmund Fawcett about conflicts within Conservatism.

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Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize 2020

Tales of indigenous people battling for their land; colonialism & pioneers of anthropology

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Cows, farming and our view of nature

Are cows the answer to depleted soil or the problem? With farmer and author James Rebanks.

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Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Links between biography and poetry. Telling modern Ugandan stories. With Shahidha Bari.

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Writing a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel Holmes

Biographers of Tom Stoppard, Sylvia Pankhurst and a little known SS soldier compare notes.

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African Europeans, Fidel Castro and African leaders, WEB Du Bois

Professors Olivette Otele and Simon Hall on understanding connections in black history

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The Frieze BBC Radio 3 Debate Museums in the 21st Century

Gallery directors from Russia, USA and Singapore compare notes, hosted by Anne McElvoy.

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New Thinking about Museums

VR Vikings, military museums to bakelite - new research into a range of collections.

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Daljit Nagra & Val McDermid; Reynard the Fox

A poet and a crime writer compare notes; plus, lessons for now from a medieval foxy fable

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Derrida and post truth

Matthew Sweet asks biographer Peter Salmon about Derrida's influence today

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Seances and Science

A Croydon poltergeist and artists as mediums - Kate Summerscale and Simon Grant.

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2020 Polari Prize winners

Shahidha Bari looks at some of the best recent LGBTQ+ writing and photography.

• 44 mins

The Writing of Aimé Césaire

From négritude and his Discourse on Colonialism to his long inventive and punning poetry.

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City Life, estate living and lockdown

Matthew Sweet and guests on how Covid has changed our cities.

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Individualism and Community

From Enlightenment conscience to New Deal USA to carers and refugees. Anne McElvoy hosts

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Audiences

A director, event programmer and theatre & dance historians on making work without a crowd

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War in fact and fiction

Historians Margaret McMillan and Rob Johnson. Novelists Abdulrazak Gurnah and Mia Couto

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Depicting Disability

The history of disabled people’s political activism, to portrayals in fiction & at courts.

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Billy Wilder

Matthew Sweet, novelist Jonathan Coe and others discuss the director of Some Like It Hot.

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What we cherish and what we give away

What objects do we value most and what do we give away to charity shops?

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The Imperial War Museum BBC Radio 3 Remembrance Debate 2020

What is the role of artists in shaping our understanding of history by commemorating war?

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Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse

New research on Herman Moll's maps, looted Mexican coins and Alan Bates's early career.

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About Face

What would you change about your nose if you could? What about an entire face transplant?

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Helen Mort and Blake Morrison, Oulipo

How do you teach writing? Helen Mort and Blake Morrison compare notes.

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