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New Thinking: The impact of being multilingual
John Gallagher looks at creating in multiple tongues and the slipperiness of metaphor
Get Carter
Digging beneath the surface of the classic Brit noir film with director Mike Hodges
Family ties and reshaping history
From Neanderthals to Sikh warriors to the idea of 鈥榃EIRD鈥� people, 3 authors look at kin
New Thinking: The Mayflower and Native American History
Eleanor Barraclough explores the significance of the much mythologised Pilgrim voyage.
Piranesi and disturbing archecture
Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is one of Matthew Sweet's guests
The Radiophonic Workshop
Matthew Sweet meets members of the 蜜芽传媒 Radiophonic Workshop.
Greek classics and the sea plus a pair of novels byTolstoy and Dostoevsky
Pat Barker & Giles Fraser on Russian lit/Edith Hall & Barry Cunliffe on the classical sea
Wole Soyinka's writing
Ben Okri, Louisa Egbunike & Oladipo Agboluaje discuss the Nigerian author's life and work
Bernard-Henri L茅vy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha
Shahidha Bari talks to Bernard-Henri L茅vy, Stella Sandford, Homi K Bhabha
Anne Applebaum, Ingrid Bergman, Herland
Politics and friendship and the lives of Ingrid Bergman and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
