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Romanticism revisited
Coleridge, Fuseli and Emily Bront毛 under the spotlight as new films and exhibitions open.
The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022
Anne McElvoy is joined by the directors of three institutions from around the world.
Miles Davis and On The Corner
Matthew Sweet and guests explore Davis's genre-stretching album, released on 11 Oct 1972.
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.
