Literature
Desert Island Discs. Anne Tyler, writer. Audio, 36 minutes
Anne Tyler, writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Canon Wars. Audio, 28 minutes
Lindsay Johns examines 30 years of the war over the literary canon.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
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- Posted10 February 2022
The Essay. Reading Ulysses, Nuala O'Connor on Penelope. Audio, 14 minutes
Nuala O'Connor explores a passage from the novel's final episode, Molly Bloom's soliloquy.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Reading Ulysses, Mary Costello on Ithaca. Audio, 14 minutes
Mary Costello chooses a passage from an episode towards the end of Ulysses: Ithaca.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
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- Posted2 February 2022
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- Posted2 February 2022
The Essay. Reading Ulysses, Colm Tóibín on Sirens. Audio, 14 minutes
Colm Tóibín explains singing in Ulysses, exploring a passage from the Sirens episode.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted1 February 2022
The Essay. Reading Ulysses, John Patrick McHugh on Calypso. Audio, 14 minutes
Short story writer John Patrick McHugh chooses the fourth episode of Ulysses: Calypso.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted31 January 2022
The Essay. Reading Ulysses, Anne Enright on Telemachus. Audio, 14 minutes
Anne Enright gives us a close reading of the opening pages of James Joyce's Ulysses.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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Sunday Feature. The Art of a Day. Audio, 44 minutes
Why do writers and audiences keep coming back to one-day artworks like Joyce's Ulysses?
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted28 January 2022
1922: The Birth of Now. Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago. Audio, 14 minutes
Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago in 1922 a move with profound influence
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted27 January 2022
1922: The Birth of Now. The True Story of Ah Q, by Lu Xun. Audio, 14 minutes
The True Story of Ah Q, by Lu Xun, China's first modernist work of literature
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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1922: The Birth of Now. The Criterion, which published The Waste Land. Audio, 14 minutes
The Criterion, in which the seminal modernist poem The Waste Land first appeared.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted21 January 2022
Sunday Feature. The Pigeons at the British Museum. Audio, 14 minutes
Will Abberley reconsiders Richard Jefferies's essay The Pigeons at the British Museum.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Desert Island Discs. Deborah Levy, writer. Audio, 38 minutes
Deborah Levy, writer, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
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- Posted12 January 2022
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- Posted8 January 2022
