Literature
Witness History. Dame Carmen Callil: Feminist publisher. Audio, 9 minutes
Dame Carmen Callil, who died in October this year, founded a feminist publisher in 1972
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
imagine... 2022, Malorie Blackman: What If? Video, 70 minutes
A profile of writer and former children's laureate Malorie Blackman.
- AttributionBBC One
- Available for over a year
Open Book. Colm Tóibín essays, and revisiting Shirley Hazzard. Audio, 28 minutes
Chris Power talks to Colm Tóibín about illness, the myth of Ireland and banned books.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
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- Posted17 October 2022
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- Posted17 October 2022
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- Posted14 October 2022
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- Posted11 October 2022
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- Posted8 October 2022
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- Posted7 October 2022
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- Posted6 October 2022
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- Posted4 October 2022
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- Posted29 September 2022
Arts & Ideas. John Cowper Powys. Audio, 54 minutes
John Gray, Iain Sinclair, Margaret Drabble and Kevan Manwaring on 'the Dorset Proust'
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
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- Posted25 September 2022
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- Posted22 September 2022
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- Posted22 September 2022
Imagiste. Audio, 28 minutes
Jean Sprackland explores the subversive beauty of female Imagist poets H.D. and Amy Lowell
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Once Upon a Time. Audio, 28 minutes
Can children’s books help us face death and grief?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
This Cultural Life. Abdulrazak Gurnah. Audio, 43 minutes
Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah on his cultural influences.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Arena. James Joyce’s Ulysses. Video, 88 minutes
A celebration of Joyce's literary masterpiece, a century after its publication.
- AttributionBBC Four
- Expires today 05:59
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- Posted30 August 2022
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- Posted30 August 2022
Shedunnit. The Challenge of Dorothy L. Sayers. Audio, 24 minutes
Should detective fiction be easy reading?
- AttributionBBC Sounds
- Available for 10 months
Witness History. The Bard of Bengal. Audio, 9 minutes
Rabindranath Tagore was one of India's greatest poets. He died in August 1941
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year