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1antimuzak
Thursday 2nd December 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Day of the Triffids.
John Wyndham's 1951 story The Day of the Triffids explores ideas about bio-engineering and nature, despotic government and attempts to control, and whether colonies can survive outside the mainstream. Matthew Sweet and guests Amy Binns, Tanvir Bush, Peter White and Sarah Dillon look at the novel, which spawned film, TV and radio adaptations and discuss what resonance it has today.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Day of the Triffids.
John Wyndham's 1951 story The Day of the Triffids explores ideas about bio-engineering and nature, despotic government and attempts to control, and whether colonies can survive outside the mainstream. Matthew Sweet and guests Amy Binns, Tanvir Bush, Peter White and Sarah Dillon look at the novel, which spawned film, TV and radio adaptations and discuss what resonance it has today.
2antimuzak
Tuesday 7th December 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Groundbreaking History Books.
Rana Mitter talks to historians making waves with the books they have published. The Cundill Prize and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman prizes are announced in early December. We catch up with news about the winners and hear from other influential historians.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Groundbreaking History Books.
Rana Mitter talks to historians making waves with the books they have published. The Cundill Prize and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman prizes are announced in early December. We catch up with news about the winners and hear from other influential historians.
3antimuzak
Wednesday 15th December 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Dullness, David Cohen Prize for Literature Winner.
Sticking in stamps and killing animals were the main achievements of King George V - according to his biographer Harold Nicholson. Now Jane Ridley has written a new book about him subtitled `Never a Dull Moment", so can dullness be a virtue? Anne McElvoy chairs the discussion and meets the winner of the David Cohen Prize for Literature - biennial British literary award given to acknowledge a whole career.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Dullness, David Cohen Prize for Literature Winner.
Sticking in stamps and killing animals were the main achievements of King George V - according to his biographer Harold Nicholson. Now Jane Ridley has written a new book about him subtitled `Never a Dull Moment", so can dullness be a virtue? Anne McElvoy chairs the discussion and meets the winner of the David Cohen Prize for Literature - biennial British literary award given to acknowledge a whole career.
4antimuzak
Thursday 6th January 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Appeasement.
As a film made from Robert Harris's bestseller Munich: The Edge of War comes to cinemas and then Netflix, Rana Mitter and his guests discuss military history and tactics and ask whether there are circumstances in which appeasement can be justified.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Appeasement.
As a film made from Robert Harris's bestseller Munich: The Edge of War comes to cinemas and then Netflix, Rana Mitter and his guests discuss military history and tactics and ask whether there are circumstances in which appeasement can be justified.
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>3 antimuzak: His main achievement might have been in having a battleship named after him!!
6antimuzak
Tuesday 11th January 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Adapting Moliere.
Liz Lochhead joins Anne McElvoy to help consider what people make of satirical French playwright Jean-Baptiste Molière now, and how well his plays work in translation, alongside Clare Finburgh-Delijani, Professor of European Theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London and Suzanne Jones, a Junior Research Fellow in French at St Anne's College Oxford.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Adapting Moliere.
Liz Lochhead joins Anne McElvoy to help consider what people make of satirical French playwright Jean-Baptiste Molière now, and how well his plays work in translation, alongside Clare Finburgh-Delijani, Professor of European Theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London and Suzanne Jones, a Junior Research Fellow in French at St Anne's College Oxford.
7antimuzak
Wednesday 12th January 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Melusine.
Shahidha Bari explores the emergence of Mélusine in French literature of the late 14th and early 15th centuries and the hybrid mermaid-woman's historical significance.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Melusine.
Shahidha Bari explores the emergence of Mélusine in French literature of the late 14th and early 15th centuries and the hybrid mermaid-woman's historical significance.
8antimuzak
Tuesday 18th January 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Writing Love: Sarah Hall, Monica Ali, Adam Mars-Jones.
Authors Sarah Hall, Monica Ali and Adam Mars-Jones join Shahidha Bari for a conversation about writing love stories set against troubling times.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Writing Love: Sarah Hall, Monica Ali, Adam Mars-Jones.
Authors Sarah Hall, Monica Ali and Adam Mars-Jones join Shahidha Bari for a conversation about writing love stories set against troubling times.
9antimuzak
Tuesday 22nd February 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Pankaj Mishra & Research into Indian History.
Rana Mitter talks to novelist Pankaj Mishra about his new novel Run and Hide. Plus insights into Indian history from Vikram Visana, Pragya Dhital and Sharanya Murali.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Pankaj Mishra & Research into Indian History.
Rana Mitter talks to novelist Pankaj Mishra about his new novel Run and Hide. Plus insights into Indian history from Vikram Visana, Pragya Dhital and Sharanya Murali.
10antimuzak
Wednesday 16th March 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Stasi Poetry Circle, Nazi Schools and German Culture.
Philip Oltermann on the cold war cultural front, Helen Roche on the exchange trips with elite Nazi boarding schools, and Anne McElvoy on the curious initiatives of Nazi Germany.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Stasi Poetry Circle, Nazi Schools and German Culture.
Philip Oltermann on the cold war cultural front, Helen Roche on the exchange trips with elite Nazi boarding schools, and Anne McElvoy on the curious initiatives of Nazi Germany.
11antimuzak
Tuesday 22nd March 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
John Maynard Keynes.
JM Keynes and his theory, Keynesianism, is central to the financial history of the 20th century. However, he is also central to its cultural history. Keynes was not only an economist, but a man equally concerned with aesthetics and ethics; as interested in the ballet as he was with the stock market crash. Anne McElvoy talks to Robert Hudson about the musical drama has written about the political trading behind the Treaty of Versailles from Keynes's perspective. How does looking again at Keynes's life and work offer us a different view of the man and his times? Zachary D. Carter is a Writer in Residence with the Omidyar Network's Reimagining Capitalism initiative and the author of The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy and the Life of John Maynard Keynes. Robert Hudson is the author of Hall of Mirrors a musical based on JM Keynes's experiences at the Paris Peace Conference. His other work includes Magnitsky the Musical. Emma West is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham and her current research project, Revolutionary Red Tape, examines how public servants and official committees helped to produce and popularise modern British culture.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
John Maynard Keynes.
JM Keynes and his theory, Keynesianism, is central to the financial history of the 20th century. However, he is also central to its cultural history. Keynes was not only an economist, but a man equally concerned with aesthetics and ethics; as interested in the ballet as he was with the stock market crash. Anne McElvoy talks to Robert Hudson about the musical drama has written about the political trading behind the Treaty of Versailles from Keynes's perspective. How does looking again at Keynes's life and work offer us a different view of the man and his times? Zachary D. Carter is a Writer in Residence with the Omidyar Network's Reimagining Capitalism initiative and the author of The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy and the Life of John Maynard Keynes. Robert Hudson is the author of Hall of Mirrors a musical based on JM Keynes's experiences at the Paris Peace Conference. His other work includes Magnitsky the Musical. Emma West is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham and her current research project, Revolutionary Red Tape, examines how public servants and official committees helped to produce and popularise modern British culture.
12antimuzak
Thursday 14th April 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Housework.
Matthew Sweet, Michele Roberts, Michele Kirsch and Rachele Dini on housework, gender and class from early 20th-century domestic appliance ads via 1960s feminist critiques such as Hannah Gavron: The Captive Wife to the age of TikTok `cleanfluencers".
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Housework.
Matthew Sweet, Michele Roberts, Michele Kirsch and Rachele Dini on housework, gender and class from early 20th-century domestic appliance ads via 1960s feminist critiques such as Hannah Gavron: The Captive Wife to the age of TikTok `cleanfluencers".
13antimuzak
Wednesday 27th April 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Rainer Maria Rilke.
Anne McElvoy discusses the work and legacy of visionary poet Rainer Maria Rilke, from his idiosyncratic use of figures and images from both classical mythology and Christianity to explore existential themes, to his appropriation today as a new age mystic.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Rainer Maria Rilke.
Anne McElvoy discusses the work and legacy of visionary poet Rainer Maria Rilke, from his idiosyncratic use of figures and images from both classical mythology and Christianity to explore existential themes, to his appropriation today as a new age mystic.
14antimuzak
Tuesday 3rd May 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Kawanabe Kyosai and Yukio Mishima.
Chris Harding explores challenges to Japanese artistic tradition as the Royal academy shows the paintings of Kawanabe Kyosai and a new translation of Yukio Mishima's Beautiful Star is published.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Kawanabe Kyosai and Yukio Mishima.
Chris Harding explores challenges to Japanese artistic tradition as the Royal academy shows the paintings of Kawanabe Kyosai and a new translation of Yukio Mishima's Beautiful Star is published.
15antimuzak
Thursday 5th May 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Odesa Stories.
Isaac Babel, born in Odessa in 1894, became a journalist, writer, translator and playwright before being executed in 1940 after fabricated charges of terrorism. Matthew Sweet and guests including Linda Grant and New Generation Thinker Victoria Donovan have been re-reading his book Odessa Stories, first published in Soviet magazines between 1921 and 1924.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Odesa Stories.
Isaac Babel, born in Odessa in 1894, became a journalist, writer, translator and playwright before being executed in 1940 after fabricated charges of terrorism. Matthew Sweet and guests including Linda Grant and New Generation Thinker Victoria Donovan have been re-reading his book Odessa Stories, first published in Soviet magazines between 1921 and 1924.
16antimuzak
Tuesday 10th May 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Mental Health.
From a death row prisoner to the schemes to raise money dreamt up by his father: human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has written a memoir exploring the impact of mental health on his family, his clients in the legal system and himself. New Generation Thinker Sabina Dosani is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. She writes a postcard for Mental Health Week about Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. Curator George Vasey discusses activism on air pollution and curator James Taylor-Foster explains the sensations of ASMR. Anne McElvoy hosts.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Mental Health.
From a death row prisoner to the schemes to raise money dreamt up by his father: human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has written a memoir exploring the impact of mental health on his family, his clients in the legal system and himself. New Generation Thinker Sabina Dosani is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. She writes a postcard for Mental Health Week about Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. Curator George Vasey discusses activism on air pollution and curator James Taylor-Foster explains the sensations of ASMR. Anne McElvoy hosts.
17antimuzak
Tuesday 24th May 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Continuing Appeal of Tudor History.
Historical novelist Philippa Gregory, historians Susan Doran and Nandini Das, and literary scholar Adam Roberts join Matthew Sweet at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry to discuss the enduring appeal of Tudor history and the role that historical fiction plays in shaping our view of history.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Continuing Appeal of Tudor History.
Historical novelist Philippa Gregory, historians Susan Doran and Nandini Das, and literary scholar Adam Roberts join Matthew Sweet at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry to discuss the enduring appeal of Tudor history and the role that historical fiction plays in shaping our view of history.
18antimuzak
Wednesday 25th May 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Tudor Mind.
John Gallagher, Helen Hackett and Christina Faraday explore the Tudor mind through art, portraiture and poetry, and they discuss Vaughan Williams's take on the Tudors.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Tudor Mind.
John Gallagher, Helen Hackett and Christina Faraday explore the Tudor mind through art, portraiture and poetry, and they discuss Vaughan Williams's take on the Tudors.
19antimuzak
Tuesday 7th June 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Wolfson Prize 2022.
Witches, statues, God's body, the Ottomans, medieval church going and 17th-century England as a devil land are the topics explored in the books shortlisted for the Wolfson Prize.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The Wolfson Prize 2022.
Witches, statues, God's body, the Ottomans, medieval church going and 17th-century England as a devil land are the topics explored in the books shortlisted for the Wolfson Prize.
20antimuzak
Thursday 9th June 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The View from the Streets.
New Generation Thinker Oskar Jensen has just published Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London. So Matthew Sweet looks at street life from the Barnardo's photographs described in Oskar's book to the work of Maier, from ballad singing to modern day busking, street performance 19th-century style to graffiti and site-specific theatre now.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
The View from the Streets.
New Generation Thinker Oskar Jensen has just published Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London. So Matthew Sweet looks at street life from the Barnardo's photographs described in Oskar's book to the work of Maier, from ballad singing to modern day busking, street performance 19th-century style to graffiti and site-specific theatre now.
21antimuzak
Tuesday 14th June 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
South African Writing.
Damon Galgut, Julia Blackburn, Jade Munslow Ong join Anne McElvoy to discuss South African literature, from the farm novel to the ongoing legacy of apartheid.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
South African Writing.
Damon Galgut, Julia Blackburn, Jade Munslow Ong join Anne McElvoy to discuss South African literature, from the farm novel to the ongoing legacy of apartheid.
22antimuzak
Wednesday 15th June 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922.
Shahidha Bari is joined by Cleo Hanaway-Oakley and Emma West for discussions on a theatre company that travelled around Britain in a van in 1922, how James Joyce's eyesight troubles influenced the writing of Ulysses, and Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Bloomsday, Dalloway Day and 1922.
Shahidha Bari is joined by Cleo Hanaway-Oakley and Emma West for discussions on a theatre company that travelled around Britain in a van in 1922, how James Joyce's eyesight troubles influenced the writing of Ulysses, and Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway.
23antimuzak
Wednesday 22nd June 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
ETA Hoffman.
Anne McElvoy and guests examine the writing of the German Romantic ETA Hoffman, marking 200 years since his death. The author of horror and fantasy published stories that form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann and the ballets Coppélia and The Nutcracker.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
ETA Hoffman.
Anne McElvoy and guests examine the writing of the German Romantic ETA Hoffman, marking 200 years since his death. The author of horror and fantasy published stories that form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann and the ballets Coppélia and The Nutcracker.
24antimuzak
Thursday 30th June 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Vampires and the Penny Dreadful.
Varney the Vampire was a blood-soaked gothic horror story serialised in cheap print over the course of a couple of years in the 19th century. The resulting "penny dreadful" tale spilled out of a large volume when it was finally published in book form. Matthew Sweet explores why a work, so often overlooked, was so important to the development of the vampire genre. He is joined by Roger Luckhurst, Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Joan Passey, a lecturer at the University of Bristol.
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)
Vampires and the Penny Dreadful.
Varney the Vampire was a blood-soaked gothic horror story serialised in cheap print over the course of a couple of years in the 19th century. The resulting "penny dreadful" tale spilled out of a large volume when it was finally published in book form. Matthew Sweet explores why a work, so often overlooked, was so important to the development of the vampire genre. He is joined by Roger Luckhurst, Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Joan Passey, a lecturer at the University of Bristol.
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