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British Academy Book Prize 2022
Rana Mitter meets six authors shortlisted for the prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

Romanticism Revisited
Coleridge, Fuseli and Emily Bronte under the spotlight as a new film and exhibition open

The Frieze/Radio 3 Museum Directors Debate 2022
Anne McElvoy is joined by the directors of three institutions from around the world.

New Thinking: Accents
From variations of Mancunian to descriptions of the Geordie voice

Miles Davis and On The Corner
Matthew Sweet and guests explore this genre-stretching album released on 11th Oct 1972

How We Read
Our surprisingly complex and mysterious relationship with text explored by Matthew Sweet.

Female power and influence past and present
Anne McElvoy talks to novelist Kamila Shamsie and playwright Rona Munro

My Neighbour Totoro
Christopher Harding looks at the background and influence of Studio Ghibli's 1988 film

John Cowper Powys
John Gray, Iain Sinclair, Margaret Drabble and Kevan Manwaring on 'the Dorset Proust'

Claude McKay and the Harlem Renaissance
Authors Nadifa Mohamed, Johny Pitts and Pearl Cleage join Shahidha Bari.