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How We Read
Matthew Sweet explores our surprisingly complex and mysterious relationship with text.
Female power and influence past and present
Anne McElvoy talks to novelist Kamila Shamsie and playwright Rona Munro.
My Neighbour Totoro
Japanese ideas about childhood innocence and the influence of a 1988 Studio Ghibli film.
John Cowper Powys
John Gray, Margaret Drabble, Iain Sinclair and Kevan Manwaring discuss Powys's writing.
Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance
Authors Nadifa Mohamed, Johny Pitts and Pearl Cleage join Shahidha Bari.
Ibsen
New interpretations of the Norwegian dramatist's plays by Lucinda Coxon and Steve Waters.
The Black Country, past and present
Matthew Sweet and guests record with an audience at the Contains Strong Language Festival.
The Normans
Rana Mitter and guests look at Norman history, misconceptions and echoes heard today.
Cuba, cold war and RAF Fylingdales
Novelist Ian McEwan and researchers into early warning system archives join Anne McElvoy
Immortality
Matthew Sweet and guests explore ideas about never ending life in literature film and myth
